Huntley Gordon
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Huntley Gordon | |
---|---|
190px
Gordon in a scene still from The Beloved Imposter (1918)
|
|
Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
October 8, 1887
Died | December 7, 1956 Van Nuys, California, United States |
Years active | 1916-1941 |
Huntley Gordon (October 8, 1887[1] – December 7, 1956) was an actor born in Montreal, Quebec.
Profile
Gordon was educated in both Canada and England. He had various jobs including working in a bank, in a silver mine, contracting, as a commercial traveller, and being a cigarette factory owner before settling on the stage and at one time acted with Ethel Barrymore. He began his screen career in 1916 when given a chance by Thomas Ince. Gordon was once a model for Arrow Collars.[2]
He served in the Canadian Army during World War I and began a career in motion pictures in England where he had been stationed during the war. With his suave manner and classic good looks he was sought out in Hollywood, California where he acted in both silent and talking films.
In Hollywood, he appeared in numerous films including starring opposite Gloria Swanson in the 1923 film Bluebeard's 8th Wife. That same year he starred in The Wanters with Norma Shearer and Marie Prevost.
For most of his career, Gordon traveled between America and Britain, making films in both countries, appearing in more than 120 films. He was with MGM studios when he retired from film in 1940 and invested in the manufacture of silk stockings, a lucrative business at a time when Canadian and British women could not get them due to the rationing brought on by the Second World War. Although he no longer made motion pictures, Huntley Gordon remained active in the world of network radio.
Huntley Gordon died in Van Nuys, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Selected filmography
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>
- 1918: The Beloved Imposter
- 1918: Men
- 1919: The Common Cause
- 1919: The Glorious Lady
- 1920: The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
- 1921: Enchantment
- 1922: Beyond the Rainbow
- 1922: What's Wrong with the Women?
- 1923: The Famous Mrs. Fair
- 1923: Bluebeard's 8th Wife
- 1923: The Social Code
- 1923: The Wanters
- 1923: Pleasure Mad
- 1924: Shadows of Paris
- 1924: True as Steel
- 1924: The Enemy Sex
- 1924: Wine
- 1924: Married Flirts
- 1925: The Great Divide
- 1925: Never the Twain Shall Meet
- 1926: Her Second Chance
- 1926: Silken Shackles
- 1926: The Golden Web
- 1927: Sensation Seekers
- 1928: A Certain Young Man
- 1928: Our Dancing Daughters
- 1928: Outcast
- 1929: Melody Lane
- 1930: New Movietone Follies of 1930
- 1932: Sally of the Subway
- 1932: Broadway to Cheyenne
- 1932: The Phantom Express
- 1932: Midnight Warning
- 1933: Secrets
- 1933: The World Gone Mad
- 1933: Corruption
- 1934: She Had to Choose
- 1935: Murder by Television
- 1936: Daniel Boone
- 1937: China Passage
- 1937: Stage Door
- 1937: Idol of the Crowds
- 1938: Gangster's Boy
- 1939: Mr. Wong in Chinatown
- 1940: Phantom Of Chinatown
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).|Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).]]. |
- Use mdy dates from September 2014
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with hCards
- Pages using div col with unknown parameters
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- 1887 births
- 1956 deaths
- Disease-related deaths in California
- Canadian expatriate male actors in the United States
- Canadian male film actors
- Canadian male silent film actors
- Male actors from Montreal
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
- 20th-century Canadian male actors