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Old 23-04-2008, 11:58 AM
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Does anyone know anything about the later years of actor Colin Gordon? (died 1972) particularly the cause of death please?
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Moor Larkin might well have some info to hand, given his interests. If he doesn't turn anything up I'll look in the bottom of the cupboard for some ancient material on THE PRISONER which may have more details...

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The esteemed Mr Quinlan does not offer a cause of death, but does note that Mr Gordon made his West End stage debut as the rear end of a horse...
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I think Colin Gordon died of cancer in the early seventies.

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a good actor, effective as number 2 in the Prisoner, but surely the worst laugh of all the number 2s. He worked well with Steve Forrest in the Baron also. Another actor that crops up all the time,sad that he died relatively early
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Theatre Who's Who:
Gordon, Colin
educated Marlborough College & Christ Church Oxford
First appeared on stage in repertory at the Palace, Watford, 1934
1934 - Hind legs of horse, Toad of Toad Hall
1935- Peter, Closing at Sunrise
Director with Fred Melvile Rep at Brixton 1936-39
Seved in the Army 1940 -46
1948- won Clarence Derwent Award as Rupert Billings, The Happiest Days of your Life
1951 - Col desmond de S. Rinder-Sparrow, The Love of the Four Colonels
1953 - Sir Horace Duncan, The White Carnation
1953 - NewYork Coronet - Henry, The Little Hut
1955 - Julius Ring, Misery Me!
1955 - Seymour Verity, Wild Thyme
1956 - Alec Barnes, The Touch of Fear
1957 - Percy Trellis, The Wit to Woo
1959 - Director and Actor with Guildford Repertory
first appeared in films - 1947
Club: Green Room
Address: c/o Derek Glynne,Shaftesbury Avenue

Nothing nearer his death I'm afraid. He must have died relatively suddenly because he was in a TV show (Hine) as late as '71. I would have thought 'papers like the Telegraph/Grauniad would have done an obit. He was still quite famous then. His date of death seems posted all over the internet!!

He was a brilliant 'Number Two' for McGoohan's Prisoner. Interesting that he was in the army for so long.

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He was also in one of the colour episodes of Steptoe & Son (Live Now, P.A.Y.E. Later?) which I think would've been around '72.
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