Leo Gordon

Leo Gordon

Date of Birth: 02 Dec 1922

Country: USA

Biography: Big, burly, character actor, one of the toughest of screen heavies, Leo Gordon's powerful physique, combined with his deep, menacing voice, was guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of even the bravest screen hero. Director Don Siegel, who used Gordon in his prison film Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), once said that "Leo Gordon was the scariest man I have ever met" - this coming from a man who had directed John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Bette Midler! Siegel wasn't talking about just Gordon's sc

Total Credits at Criticker: 37 (Actor), 16 (Writer)

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    The Intruder
    A charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control. (imdb)
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    The Trackers
    The Trackers (1971) - TV Movie
    A rancher comes home and finds that his son has been murdered and his daughter kidnapped by a bandit gang. He hires a professional tracker with a reputation for finding his quarry to help him find the gang and rescue his daughter. (imdb)
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    Fire and Ice
    In this animated tale, a tiny village is destroyed by a surging glacier, which serves as the deadly domain for the evil Ice Lord, Nekron. The only survivor is a young warrior, Larn, who vows to avenge this act of destruction... (imdb)
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    Hondo
    Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector. (imdb)
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    My Name Is Nobody
    A young, easygoing gunman (Hill) worships and competes with an old gunfighter (Fonda) who only wants to retire. (imdb)
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    Man in the Shadow
    In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil's henchmen go a little too far and beat a "bracero" ranch hand to death. Faced with an obvious cover-up and opposition on every hand, sheriff Ben Sadler is goaded into investigating. His unlikely ally: Renchler's lovely, self-willed and overprotected daughter. Will Ben survive Renchler's wrath? (imdb)
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    Great Day in the Morning
    After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women - one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived from the East to open a dress shop - he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town. (imdb)
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    The Notorious Mr. Monks
    In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the driver's wife and murder ensues. (All Movie Guide)
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    China Venture
    An American patrol was sent during World War II to the south of China which was occupied by Japanese troops with the order to rescue a prisoner of the Chinese guerilla. (imdb)
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    Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies
    Indy takes a job as assistant to a Hollywood studio executive in an attempt to earn his college fees. His job is to get flamboyant and difficult director Erich Von Stroheim to complete his latest epic on time and with the budget, or else. (imdb)
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    The Yellow Mountain
    A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo (Howard Duff) owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin (Lex Barker.) Crooked mine-owner Bannon (John McIntire) wants to merge their interests so they can create a monoply but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray (Mala Powers), daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray (William Demarest), but she has eyes only for Andy... (imdb)
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    The Haunted Palace
    Loosly based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", this fright flick opens with a warlock(Vincent Price)placing a curse on a group of villagers about to burn him at the stake. Generations later, the warlock's descendent(also Vincent Price)returns to the village to pick up where his ancestor left off. (IMDb)
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    Gun Fury
    After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for deasd and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none of the townspeople he comes across are prepared to help, he recruits two others who have sworn revenge on the ruthless Slayton. (imdb)
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    Man with the Gun
    A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his rowdy sidekicks. The stranger is a town tamer by trade, and he accepts a $500 commission to sort things out. (imdb)
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    Baby Face Nelson
    George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1930's Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger. (imdb)
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    Escort West
    An ex-Confederate officer and his young daughter, traveling West, rescue two women survivors of an Indian attack. (imdb)
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    Soldier of Fortune
    An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband, but at a price--he's smitten with her. (Yahoo.com)
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    The Tall Stranger
    Ned Bannon comes across rustlers and is shot and left for dead, but is found in time by a wagon train heading for California. When he recovers he becomes suspicious of the two outsiders who are leading the train into a dead-end valley owned by his hostile half-brother. Braving his relative's animosity going back to the Civil War, Bannon makes contact to try and avoid a showdown. (imdb)
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    The Big Operator
    A tough hood goes wild when federal agents investigate him. (TCM)
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    The Bamboo Prison
    American POWs struggle to escape from a North Korean camp. While this is basically a remake of Stalag 17, it does feature interesting scenes of a North Korean brainwashing. (allmovieguide)
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    The Restless Breed
    Educated but hot-headed Mitch Baker travels to the border town of Mission intent on avenging the death of his secret service father at the hand of contraband gang leader Newton. (imdb)
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    Riot in Cell Block 11
    Several prison inmates, to protest brutal guards, substandard food, overcrowding and barely livable conditions, stage an uprising, in which most of the inmates join, and take several guards hostage. (imdb)
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    Bog
    Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive. (imdb)
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    Bonnie\
    Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their step-father Charley (The Bonnie from the title being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run off to their wealthy uncle's mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their lives on the wild side. (imdb)
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    Devil\
    An exiled band of Hell's Angels strike a bargain with the Sheriff of a local town, let them stay and the town is safe. But a local girl strays into their lair and sparks off a full scale Angel war. (imdb)
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    Tarzan Goes to India
    Princess Kamara asks Tarzan to come to India. A huge dam is going to be opened in order to form a lake which will service an electric power plant. When the lake is formed, hundreds of elephants will be drowned ... unless Tarzan and Jai can save them. Opposition comes from the head engineer of the project. (imdb)
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    Quantrill\
    A Civil War guerrilla gang plans an attack on a Kansas arsenal. (imdb)
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    Santa Fe Passage
    A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory. (imdb)
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    Son of Hitler
    The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich. (imdb)
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    Apache Territory
    A cowboy sets out to try to stop an Indian war and rescue a white woman captured by the Apaches. (imdb)
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    Seven Angry Men
    Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist. (imdb)
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    Black Patch
    A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil War, takes his job seriously, especially after an old friend, Hank Danner, arrives in town with his wife, Helen, who formerly loved Morgan. Danner is suspected of a bank robbery and Morgan has to arrest him. Crooked saloon-owner , "Frenchy' De Vere, sees a chance to get the bank loot, and he helps Danner escape and then kills him. (imdb)
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    Bonanza
    Bonanza (1959) - TV Series
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    The Andy Griffith Show
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    Tales of Wells Fargo
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    Screen Directors Playhouse
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    Rango
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