
Leo Gordon
Highest Rated: 100% My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Lowest Rated: 36% The Terror (1963)
Birthday: Dec 02, 1922
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Powerfully built and perpetually wearing a baleful, cringe-inducing stare, character actor Leo Gordon loomed tall as the villain in dozens of Westerns and melodramatic crime films during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. He once served time in San Quentin State Prison but it's his flinty voice and bulldog-like under bite that have caused some people to proclaim him the "scariest man they ever met." However, many of his former co-stars have regarded him as a professional and decidedly courteous performer. Rather funnily, he first garnered attention for his role in the exploitative prison shocker "Riot in Cell Block 11" ('54), a movie that was shot on location at San Quentin--he got to see all his old prison guards while also getting his big break. Though he's appeared in over 100 movie and TV Westerns, including the kicky oater comedy "My Name is Nobody" in 1973, he is probably best known for his late-'50s role as the large-and-in-charge Big Mike McComb on the rollicking, gambling-centered adventure series "Maverick." In 1963, he famously (if briefly) went toe to toe with the legendary John Wayne in the madcap free-for-all romp "McLintock!" and ended up falling face-first down a mudslide. Gordon occasionally played a good guy and wrote scripts himself for over 20 big-screen and small-screen Westerns. Shortly before his retirement in the mid-'90s, he reprised his signature role in the big-budget cinematic adaptation of "Maverick," which co-starred Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster. He died in his sleep at age 78.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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60% | 53% | Fire and Ice | Jarol (Voice) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | M.A.D.D.: The Candy Lightner Story | Officer Horvath (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hitler's Son | Tuennes (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Barbary Coast | Chief Macdonald Keogh (Character) | - | 1975 |
100% | 84% | My Name Is Nobody | Red (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 29% | The Trackers | Higgins (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Can't Win 'Em All | Bolek (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hostile Guns | Hank Pleasant (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 27% | Devil's Angels | Sheriff Henderson (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 49% | Tobruk |
Sgt. Krug (Character), Writer |
- | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 53% | The Night of the Grizzly | Cass Dowdy (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beau Geste | Krauss (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bounty Killer | Screenwriter | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dictator's Guns | Morrison (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dictator's Guns | Morrison (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | 34% | Kings of the Sun | Hunac Ceel (Character) | - | 1963 |
75% | 66% | The Haunted Palace |
Edgar Weeden / |
- | 1963 |
36% | 22% | The Terror | Screenwriter | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Nun and the Sergeant | Dockman (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Tarzan Goes to India | Bryce (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 76% | Shame | Sam Griffin (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Noose for a Gunman | Link Roy (Character) | - | 1960 |
45% | 24% | The Wasp Woman | Writer | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Escort West | Trooper Vogel (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 57% | The Jayhawkers | Jake Barton (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Apache Territory | Zimmerman (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot Car Girl | Screenwriter | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Ride a Crooked Trail | Sam Mason (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 0% | Quantrill's Raiders | William Clarke Quantrill (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Man in the Shadow | Chet Hunaker (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Patch | Hank Danner (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 56% | Baby Face Nelson | John Dillinger (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Breed | Cherokee (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 8% | The Tall Stranger | Stark (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 18% | Great Day in the Morning | Zeff Masterson (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 42% | 7th Cavalry | Vogel (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Steel Jungle | Lupo (Character) | - | 1956 |
87% | 84% | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Chauffeur (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven Angry Men | Martin White (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Tennessee's Partner | The Sheriff (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Ten Wanted Men | Frank Scavo (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Robbers' Roost | Jeff (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Man With the Gun | Ed Pinchot (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Soldier of Fortune | Big Matt (Character) | - | 1955 |
43% | 33% | Sign of the Pagan | Bleda (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Yellow Mountain | Drake (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Gun Fury | Tom "Jess" Burgess (Character) | - | 1953 |
86% | 74% | Hondo | Ed Lowe (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 26% | All the Brothers Were Valiant | Peter How (Character) | - | 1953 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wiseguy | Charlie Boden (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fame | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enos | Sgt. Theodore Kick (Character) | 1980-1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980-1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dukes of Hazzard | Devere (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Jack Danvers (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adam-12 | Writer | 1974-1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Hack Prine (Guest Star) | 1974 1960 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Eddie Suslow (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mod Squad | Unit Leader (Guest Star) | 1971-1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza |
Unknown (Guest Star), Writer |
1968 1965 1962-1963 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Chaparral | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Bob Stokes (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tarzan | Bull Thomas (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laredo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Get Smart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 12 O'Clock High | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Valley Days | Nate Bender (Character) | 1965 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Andy Griffith Show | Luke Comstock (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheyenne | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1955-1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronco | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Miggles Hannegan (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959-1961 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal Dillon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Rafe (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bat Masterson |
Joe Quince (Guest Star), Writer |
1958-1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Lucky | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law of the Plainsman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deputy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Charles Duncan (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Circus Boy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen Directors Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stories of the Century | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1954 |
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