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Billi Gordon
Born
Wilbert Anthony Gordon Jr.

(1954-09-02)September 2, 1954
Dowagiac, Michigan, US
DiedFebruary 22, 2018(2018-02-22) (aged 63)
Los Angeles, California, US
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Actor, model, neuroscientist
SpouseRobert Lindsay Schallert

Wilbert Anthony Gordon Jr.[1] (September 2, 1954 – February 22, 2018), better known as Billi Gordon, was an American author, television writer, neuroscientist, actor and model.[2]

Life and career

Gordon was born in 1954 in

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
. In his junior year, he withdrew from the university and moved to Los Angeles.

In L.A. he worked as an escort for an exclusive agency until 1982

Saturday Review described as "the humor classic of 1985";[5]
Eat This Book: The Last Diet Book, and Your Moon Is in Aquarius but Your Head Is in Uranus, published by West Graphics.

Gordon was a television and film actor who portrayed male and female characters, including a role in the film Coming to America. He portrayed Belle on Married With Children and Chu Lin on Women in Prison. As a writer, he wrote an episode of the sitcom 227.[3] Gordon also wrote and starred in the television pilot Next of Kin for Westway/Odessa.[6]

In the mid-1990s Gordon returned to the University of Michigan and finished his degree in 1997. He went on to receive a Ph.D. in neuroscience and did his post-doctoral training in functional neuroimaging and brain research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Gordon investigated the pathophysiology of stress as antecedent to obesity-related diseases at the UCLA Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for the Neurobiology of Stress for the Ingestive Behaviors and Obesity Program.

In 2009, Gordon was profiled on the front page of the

MRI machine at 526 pounds, allowing doctors to further diagnose a large mass growing on his upper thigh.[7]

He married Robert Lindsay Schallert, on August 6, 1988. They resided in Los Angeles, California. Gordon died on February 22, 2018, at the age of 63.[8]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1984 The Party Animal The New Dean
1988 Coming to America Large Woman

References

  1. ^ Staff (10 May 2006). "Billi Gordon, 500 pounds lighter, writing autobiography". The Dowagiac Daily News. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Seaver, Linda. The Secret of Her Excess Oakland Tribune (8-13-87)
  3. ^ a b c d Hall, Carla (14 October 2009). "A Body Larger than Life". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  4. ISBN 0961497904
    / 0-9614979-0-4
  5. Saturday Review
     (November/December 1985)
  6. ^ Styles, Anna. "Film & TV Casting News" Variety (October 31, 1983)
  7. ^ Hall, Carla (9 February 2010). "Billi Gordon couldn't fit into an MRI machine -- until now". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  8. ^ Wilbert Gordon Obituary

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