Richard Gordon(1925-2011)
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Actor
London-born Richard Gordon became interested in movies at an early age
and, together with his like-minded older brother
Alex Gordon, got involved with film
societies at school. Detecting greener grass on the other side of the
ocean, the Brothers Gordon relocated to the United States in the late
1940s. While Alex ended up in California (where he later helped found
"American International Pictures"), Richard remained in New York and
started his own company, "Gordon Films", importing and distributing
British and other foreign pictures in the U.S. This gradually led to
his involvement in the setting-up of co-production deals, at which
point he decided that, "if I was going to do it for somebody else, I
could do it myself!" Producer Gordon goes without screen credit on some
of his early films, including the
Boris Karloff vehicles,
Grip of the Strangler (1958)
(aka "The Haunted Strangler") and
Corridors of Blood (1958).
