Barry Gordon

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Barry Gordon
Born (1948-12-21) December 21, 1948 (age 75)
Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupations
  • Actor
  • talk show host
Years active1951–present
Spouse(s)Sally Julin (divorced)
Gail Schaper
​
(m. 1993)​
Children2
23rd President of the Screen Actors Guild
In office
April 13, 1988 – July 11, 1995
Preceded byPatty Duke
Succeeded byRichard Masur

Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and political talk show host.[1] He was the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, having served from 1988 to 1995. He is perhaps best known as the original voice of Donatello and Bebop in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

Early life

Gordon was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.[1] Gordon is Jewish.[2] His stepfather, Bob Manning, was a crooner of popular love songs in the 1940s and 1950s, most known for his rendition of Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You".[3]

Acting

Childhood career

Gordon began performing at age three; in his television debut, he won second place on

Bill Haley recorded a private demo recording "Six Year Olds Can Rock and Roll". He begins the recording (released in 1990) by dedicating it to Barry Gordon.[6]

As a child actor, Gordon also appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show,[1] The Jack Benny Program, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Danny Thomas Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Star Time with Benny Goodman. Gordon was cast as Humberto in an episode of the sitcom Sally, starring Joan Caulfield, and as Chopper in Leave It to Beaver (episode 119: "Beaver's House Guest"). Gordon guest starred on the sitcoms The Ann Sothern Show and Dennis the Menace.

In 1962, he played the part of the childhood version of "Patient" in

Tony Award nomination. He later reprised that role in the film version opposite Jason Robards and Martin Balsam in 1965. The film gave him "introducing" billing, but he had actually been in several films already, most notably his actual film debut in 1956's The Girl Can't Help It as a newspaper boy in which he uttered the line after seeing Jayne Mansfield
: "If that's a girl, I don't know what my sister is."

As a teen, Gordon starred alongside

Fish, starring Abe Vigoda, and from 1973 to 1974 was a regular on The New Dick Van Dyke Show. He also played a waiter in "Horror in the Heights", a 1974 episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. In 1976, he appeared in an episode of The Practice.[citation needed
]

Character actor

Primarily as a character actor, Gordon became a familiar face in numerous feature films and television series. In the last two seasons of the sitcom

Fish as a social worker, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a Ferengi businessman, and on Star Trek: Voyager as Ardon Broht, an alien publisher. More recently, he appeared as the Rabbi in Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm
.

Voice work

Gordon worked extensively as a voice actor. His most notable voice roles were

the Penguin's henchman Sheldrake), Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Timon & Pumbaa, Fantastic Max, and The Pirates of Dark Water. Gordon also provided the voice of "Quicky" the Nesquik Bunny in television commercials for Nestlé
.

In May 2009, Gordon played the Cocker Spaniel in the Webkinz Pet of the Month Music Video for May 2009. He reprised the roles as the original Donatello and Bebop in three seasons of Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

On April 20, 2022, it was revealed that Gordon would reprise his role as Donatello for the video game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. This marks the first time that he would play Donatello for a video game and his first video game role in general.

Other pursuits

In his mid-30s, Gordon returned to school; he graduated summa cum laude as a political science major from California State University, Los Angeles and went on to Loyola Law School, receiving his J.D. in 1991.

Gordon became the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, holding the office for seven years.

In 1998, Gordon was the

James Rogan.[7]

In 2004, when the local

Air America Radio affiliate in Los Angeles went off the air, for a then-unspecified period of time, Gordon started a live, call-in progressive political talk show on Pasadena's public-access television
cable TV channel 56. It continues to be cablecast and webcast live

In 2005, Gordon hosted a weekly radio talk show heard on KRLA in Los Angeles, California.

In 2006 and early 2007, Gordon hosted Barry Gordon from Left Field, a weekly talk show broadcast throughout the 25th largest U.S. radio market—the San Bernardino/Riverside region of Southern California—on KCAA Radio in Loma Linda, California. With live streams and podcast archives, the show was notable for featuring nationally known guests, including senators, congressmen, bestselling authors, and entertainment figures.

Since 2007, Gordon has taught courses in politics and the media at the California State University, Los Angeles.

In 2008, Gordon debuted his daily Internet talk show Left Talk on BlogTalkRadio.

Personal life

Gordon married Sally Julin; the marriage ended in a divorce.[8] He married Gail Schaper in 1993. They have two children.[8][9]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-85227-937-0
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  2. ^ Jaffee, Robert David (September 7, 2006). "Radio Host Barry Gordon: It's All Right to Be Left". Jewish Journal. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
  3. ^ Vera, Billy (2000). From the Vaults Vol. 4: Love Letters (CD). Hollywood: Capitol Records. p. 7.
  4. ^ "Episode dated 1984-12-15". American Top 40. Syndication (through ABC-Watermark).
  5. ISBN 0-214-20512-6
    .
  6. ^ Bill Haley & His Comets, "Six Year Olds Can Rock and Roll" (1956), The Decca Years and More (Bear Family Records, BCD 15506, 1990)
  7. ^ Barone, Michael; Ujifusa, Grant; Cohen, Richard E (1999). The Almanac of American Politics 2000. pp. 248–49. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  8. ^ a b "Gordon, Barry 1948– | Encyclopedia.com".
  9. ^ "Find Out About Dr. Gail Schaper-Gordon". Gailschapergordon.com.
  10. ^ a b c d e "Barry Gordon - 26 Character Images". Behind The Voice Actors.

External links

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