Colin Gordon

Colin Gordon was born on Apr 27, 1911 in Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. Colin Gordon's big-screen debut came with Bond Street directed by Gordon Parry in 1948, strarring Clerk in Travel Agency. Colin Gordon is known for Oh Brother! directed by Johnny Downes, Derek Nimmo stars as Brother Dominic and Felix Aylmer as The Prior Father Anselm. The most recent award Colin Gordon achieved is Clarence Derwent Awards. The upcoming new movie Colin Gordon plays is The Body Beneath which will be released on Sep 29, 1970.

Ceylon-born Colin Gordon began acting on the West End stage as the hind legs of a horse in 'Toad of Toad Hall' in 1934. After wartime service, he returned to the stage, appearing in such plays as 'The White Carnation' and 'The Little Hut' (both 1953), 'Misery Me!' (1955) and 'The Touch of Fear' (1956). His award-winning stage role of teacher Rupert Billings in 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' was recreated for the film version by another bespectacled actor, Richard Wattis. From 1957, Colin worked as actor-director with the Guildford Repertory Theatre. Though he is usually described as a 'light comedy actor', Colin made his mark in the acting profession as much by playing countless supercilious or sneering bureaucrats, lawyers or haughty military types. His stock-in-trade became his ever-present horn-rimmed glasses, combined with a cynical or asinine manner and a precisely modulated voice. His best performances might include pompous BBC announcer Reginald Willoughby-Cruft in Une bombe pas comme les autres (1956) and his bank manager, locked up in the Strongroom (1962) of his own bank during a robbery. He is likely best remembered for being a particularly sinister Number 2 to Patrick McGoohan in TV's Le prisonnier (1967) - twice.