Gordon Mitchell

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Gordon Mitchell
bodybuilder

Gordon Mitchell (born Charles Allen Pendleton; July 29, 1923 – September 20, 2003) was an American actor and bodybuilder who made about 200 B movies.[1]

Biography

Charles Allen Pendleton was born in

guidance counselor in Los Angeles,[1] where due to his physique he was given classes containing many delinquent students.[2]

Following a return enlistment for the Korean War, he found film extra work in movies such as Prisoner of War, The Man with the Golden Arm and Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, where he and his friend Joe Gold dragged Charlton Heston's Moses to Pharaoh Yul Brynner. Mae West chose him to appear in her nightclub act as part of her "buffed all-male chorus line".[1]

He was one of the American bodybuilder-actors who migrated to

sword and sandal films such as Sinbad, Seven Slaves Against the World, Treasure of the Petrified Forest (1965), then in Spaghetti Westerns such as Beyond the Law and Savage Guns. Mitchell also appeared in Fellini Satyricon (1969), directed by Federico Fellini
.

From the early 1970s onwards, he started to diversify into everything from

1982 Israeli adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's She as "Hector." The film was directed by Avi Nesher and co-starred Sandahl Bergman
.

Mitchell was close friends with fellow American expatriate actors

action films in the Philippines during the 1980s, having roles in Commando Invasion and SFX Retaliator for director John Gale
.

He returned to the United States in the late 1980s and retired from acting, but kept making occasional film appearances until his death in 2003 from an apparent heart attack in

Marina Del Rey, California, at age 80.[1]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c d Oliver, Myrna (25 September 2003). "Gordon Mitchell, 80; Bodybuilder Made 'Sword and Sandal' B Movies". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 7 August 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
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  4. ^ Kelly, Devin (12 August 2012). "An Interview with Gordon Mitchell". Cinema Nocturna website. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

External links

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