Michael Gordon (film director)

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Michael Gordon, born Irving Kunin Gordon (born September 6, 1909 in Baltimore , Maryland , † April 29, 1993 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film director , theater and film actor .

Life

Michael Gordon attended Johns Hopkins University and Yale University . He was a member of the Group Theater and joined Columbia Pictures in 1940 , where he directed his first film in 1942. In the mid-1940s he temporarily returned to the theater before turning back to film. His film career was temporarily terminated in 1951 when he refused to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and was blacklisted. Despite various theater engagements, he came under financial pressure and decided to name former leftist companions in a closed session in 1958 . After his return to film, Gordon only shot comedies and had commercial success with a few films with Doris Day . From 1971 taught theater dramaturgy at the University of California . He died in Century City Hospital in Los Angeles.

The poet Edwin Rolfe dedicated his poem Postscript to a War, published in 1951, to Gordon .

He is the maternal grandfather of American actor and film director Joseph Gordon-Levitt .

Filmography

  • 1947: The Web
  • 1948: Another Part of the Forest
  • 1949: Your Life in My Hand (Woman in Hiding)
  • 1949: Spielfieber (The Lady Gambles)
  • 1950: The Last Musketeer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
  • 1951: Retaliation at Teufelssee (The Secret of Convict Lake)
  • 1959: Pillow Talk (Pillow Talk)
  • 1960: The Secret of the Lady in Black (Portrait in Black)
  • 1961: Sexy! (Boys' Night Out)
  • 1962: The Fox Trap (For Love or Money)
  • 1963: One Too Many in Bed (Move Over Darling)
  • 1964: An Apartment for Three (A Very Special Favor)
  • 1966: Two Great Guys in Texas (Texas Across the River)
  • 1968: Everything That Is Forbidden (The Impossible Years)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cary Nelson, Jefferson Hendricks (Ed.): Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems. University of Illinois Press, 1997, p. 295.
  2. ↑ a b Obituary for Michael Gordon in the New York Times, May 4, 1993, accessed January 3, 2012.
  3. ^ Victor S. Navasky: Naming Names. Hill and Wang / Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, New York 2003, pp. 276-278.
  4. ↑ Cary Nelson, Jefferson Hendricks (Eds.): A Biographical Essay and Guide to the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University of Illinois Press, 1991, p. 113.
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director and actor in film and theater
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1993
Place of death Los Angeles , California