THE MOVING PICTURE BOY ARCHIVE

BARRY GORDON

Name: Barry Gordon
Born: 21 December 1948, Brookline, Massachusetts

Filmography (including television), before he was 18 years old

1954   The Jack Benny Program: The Life of Jack Benny (TV)
1956   The Danny Thomas Show: Talented Kid (TV)
           The Girl Can't Help It
1957   Sally: Episode #1.7 (TV)
1958   The Ann Sothern Show: Governess for a Day (TV)
           The Ann Sothern Show: The Thanksgiving Show (TV)
1959   General Electric Theater: The Last Lesson (TV)
           Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Hideout (TV)
           Startime: The Jazz Singer (TV)
1960   Philip Marlowe: A Standard for Murder (TV)
           Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's House Guest (TV)
           Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Day of the Bullet (TV)
           Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Contest for Aaron Gold (TV)
           Cinderfella
           Just Dennis: Dennis Learns to Whistle (TV)
1961   Boris Karloff Presents: Man in the Cage (TV)
           The Jack Benny Program: Jack Casting for TV Special (TV)
           The Jack Benny Program: Musicale (TV)
           The Jack Benny Program: Children's Version of the Show (TV)
           The DuPont Show with June Allyson: Our Man in Rome (TV)
           Dr. Kildare: Second Chance (TV)
1962   Hands of a Stranger
           Pressure Point
1963   Arrest and Trial: A Flame in the Dark (TV)
1964   Summer Playhouse: The Jimmy Durante Show (TV)
1965   A Thousand Clowns
1966   The Smothers Brothers Show: The Big Newsboy War (TV)
1967   The Spirit is Willing (shot in April and May 1966, so Gordon would have been 17 years old)

Below: entry in The Moving Picture Boy (pp. 276-277)

Gordon in Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's House Guest (Season 4, episode 2) (1960)

Gordon in The Spirit is Willing (1967)

Below: Barry Gordon also starred in Out Of It (1969), when Gordon was over 18 years old. It is fair to say that he grew into his looks.

Barry Gordon in later life

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