Don Gordon

American actor (1926–2017)

  • Fame53.6
  • Momentum2.4
  • Wikipedia9.6K
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Lived 1926–2017, aged 91United States
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    18 languages
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  • Era
    1926–2017
    Aged 91
  • Known for
    Lethal Weapon
    1987
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Updated 2026-06-13

Don Gordon was an American film and television actor. His most notable film roles were those in which he appeared alongside his friend Steve McQueen: Bullitt (1968), Papillon (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Between the first and the last of those films he appeared in The Gamblers (1970), WUSA (1970), Cannon for Cordoba (1970), The Last Movie (1971), Z.P.G. (1972), Fuzz (1972), Slaughter (1972), The Mack (1973), The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) and Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) as the ill-fated assistant to protagonist Damien Thorn.

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Source confidence65.0
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