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Gale Gordon

1906 - 1995

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Gale Gordon (born Charles Thomas Aldrich Jr., February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor who was Lucille Ball's longtime television foil, particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television sitcom The Lucy Show. Gordon also appeared in I Love Lucy and had starring roles in Ball's successful third series Here's Lucy and her short-lived fourth and final series Life with Lucy. Gordon was also a radio actor who played school principal Osgood Conklin in Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden, in both the 1948–1957 radio series and the 1952–1956 television series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gale Gordon has received more than 1,563,595 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gale Gordon is the 9,879th most popular actor (down from 8,909th in 2019), the 14,438th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,018th in 2019) and the 4,626th most popular American Actor.

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  • 3.73

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gale Gordon ranks 9,879 out of 13,578Before him are Mae Whitman, Sandy Martin, Sushma Seth, Mike O'Malley, Gulshan Grover, and Anna Castillo. After him are David Bateson, Darren Criss, Katja Herbers, Jeremy Irvine, Nick Robinson, and Clark Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Gale Gordon ranks 442Before him are Victoria Spivey, Stuart Milner-Barry, Michael O'Shea, William J. Brennan Jr., Nii Amaa Ollennu, and Elisabeth Lutyens. After him are Roger Livesey, Dave Trottier, Julio Rosales, and Cleanth Brooks. Among people deceased in 1995, Gale Gordon ranks 331Before him are Mary Beth Hughes, Paul Kipkoech, Stuart Milner-Barry, Chuck Stevenson, James Merrill, and Genevieve Tobin. After him are Kay Aldridge, Jeffrey Lynn, Alison Hargreaves, Bill Rowling, Eddie Clamp, and Andrea Fortunato.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gale Gordon ranks 14,438 out of 20,380Before him are Jack Ragland (1913), Anita Hill (1956), Mike O'Malley (1966), Barry Mann (1939), Chris Adler (1972), and Dianne Holum (1951). After him are John Garamendi (1945), Dan Povenmire (1963), Darren Criss (1987), William G. Gregory (1957), James T. Farrell (1904), and Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Gale Gordon ranks 4,626Before him are Jesse Lee Soffer (1984), Ann Magnuson (1956), Vanessa Marquez (1968), Mae Whitman (1988), Sandy Martin (1949), and Mike O'Malley (1966). After him are Darren Criss (1987), Nick Robinson (1995), Clark Johnson (1954), Patrick Fischler (1969), Gale Page (1910), and Lorna Gray (1917).