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Don Gordon

1926 - 2017

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Don Gordon (born Donald Walter Guadagno; November 13, 1926 – April 24, 2017) was an American film and television actor. His most notable film roles were those in which he appeared alongside his friend Steve McQueen: Bullitt (1968), Papillon (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Between the first and the last of those films he appeared in The Gamblers (1970), WUSA (1970), Cannon for Cordoba (1970), The Last Movie (1971), Z.P.G. (1972), Fuzz (1972), Slaughter (1972), The Mack (1973), The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) and Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) as the ill-fated assistant to protagonist Damien Thorn. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Don Gordon is the 6,791st most popular actor (up from 6,998th in 2019), the 10,536th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,345th in 2019) and the 3,141st most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Don Gordon ranks 6,791 out of 13,578Before him are Chae Jung-an, Ekin Cheng, Poppy Montgomery, Brandon Routh, Tzi Ma, and Dean Butler. After him are Vera Zorina, Stephanie Beacham, Kelly Slater, Ann Sothern, Devin Ratray, and Juliana Paes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Don Gordon ranks 473Before him are Ernest Mühlen, Göta Pettersson, Moira Shearer, Noor Jehan, Rawya Ateya, and Larissa Volpert. After him are W. Michael Blumenthal, Peter Zadek, Paolo Magnani, Dorothy E. Smith, George Ariyoshi, and Bryan Forbes. Among people deceased in 2017, Don Gordon ranks 530Before him are Mario Tullio Montano, Bajram Rexhepi, Rob Gonsalves, Hugo Dollheiser, Roger Smith, and Larissa Volpert. After him are Lukas Ammann, Lars-Erik Skiöld, Charles Bradley, Roberta Peters, Michele Scarponi, and Marc Baecke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Gordon ranks 10,538 out of 20,380Before him are Brandon Routh (1979), James Dickey (1923), Deontay Wilder (1985), Daniel Cormier (1979), Steve Prefontaine (1951), and Dennis Johnson (1954). After him are Tim Miller (1964), Henry Ward Beecher (1813), Kelly Slater (1972), Ann Sothern (1909), Devin Ratray (1977), and Mathew Knowles (1952).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Don Gordon ranks 3,142Before him are Logan Lerman (1992), Andrea Parker (1970), Barbara Bates (1925), Haley Bennett (1988), Wanda Hawley (1895), and Brandon Routh (1979). After him are Kelly Slater (1972), Ann Sothern (1909), Devin Ratray (1977), Sam Bottoms (1955), Mark Feuerstein (1971), and Kaitlin Olson (1975).