Gale Gordon caption = Gale Gordon
Born	February 20, 1906 New York City, New York
Died	June 30, 1995 Escondido, California

Gale Gordon (February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor. Remembered best as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil — and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television situation comedy, The Lucy Show — Gordon was just as respected for his earlier career in classic American radio, where he was once the highest-paid actor in the medium, even though he was never a top-billed radio star. is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... NY redirects here. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_New_York. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... For the album by J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton, see The Road to Escondido Escondido is a city located in northern San Diego County, California just north of the city of San Diego. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_California. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American actor, comedian and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy, a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. ... Theodore J. Mooney was a fictional character on the 1960s CBS situation comedy The Lucy Show, starring Lucille Ball. ... This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or of a poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... Lucille Ball in still from a 1966 episode of The Lucy Show The Lucy Show was Lucille Balls follow up show to I Love Lucy. ...

Born Charles T. Aldrich, Jr. in New York City, the son of British actress Gloria Gordon and her vaudevillian husband Charles Aldrich, Gordon's first big radio break came was the recurring role of Mayor La Trivia on Fibber McGee and Molly , before playing Rumson Bullard on the show's successful spinoff, The Great Gildersleeve. In 1950, Gordon played John Granby in the radio series "Granby's Green Acres", which became the basis for the 1960s television series, "Green Acres." Gordon went on to create the role of pompous principal "Osgood Conklin" on Our Miss Brooks, carrying the role to television when the show moved there in 1952. In the interim, Gordon turned up as Rudolph Atterbury on My Favorite Husband, which starred Lucille Ball in a kind-of prequel to I Love Lucy, and it meant the beginning of a longterm friendship as well as recurring professional partnership. In addition, Gordon landed a recurring role as fictitious Rexall Drugs sponsor representative Mr. Scott on yet another radio hit, The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, staying with the role as long as Rexall sponsored the show. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Jim and Marian Jordan were featured in 1947 NBC promotional art by Sam Berman. ... Youre a brii-ii-iight boy, Leroy!—Harold Peary at the height of his popularity as classic radios Great Gildersleeve. ... This article is about the television series. ... Our Miss Brooks, an American situation comedy, began as a radio hit in 1948 and migrated to television in 1952, becoming one of the earlier hits of the so-called Golden Age of Television, and making a star out of Eve Arden as comely, wisecracking, but humane high school English... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... My Favorite Husband was a radio program on CBS Radio. ... I Love Lucy is a television situation comedy starring Lucille Ball, her orchestra leader husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. ... Rexall was the name of a chain of North American drug stores, as well as the name of their store-branded products. ... Alice Faye and Phil Harris were featured in 1947 NBC promotional art by Sam Berman. ...

The widely acknowledged master of the "slow-burn" temper explosion in character, Gordon was actually the first pick to play Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy, but he was committed to Our Miss Brooks and had to decline the offer in favor of William Frawley. But he did make two guest shots on the show as Ricky Ricardo's boss, Alvin Littlefield, owner of the Tropicana Club where Ricky's band played, and later played a judge on a The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode. (Gordon also had a co-starring role in the television comedy Pete and Gladys.) William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) began in vaudeville and as a screen actor, with well over a hundred films to his credit, but gained greater fame as Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy. ... The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour was a 1957-60 CBS television situation comedy. ... Harry Morgan and Cara Williams from Pete and Gladys Pete and Gladys was an American situation comedy broadcast by CBS on Monday night at 8:00pm Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. ...

Gale Gordon at the 1988 Emmy Awards

In 1962, Ball created The Lucy Show and planned to hire Gordon to play Mr. Mooney, the banker who was first Lucy Carmichael's executor and subsequently her employer, when she went to work in his bank. Gordon, however, was still under contract to play the second Mr. Wilson (after the death of Joseph Kearns) on Dennis the Menace. When that show ended in spring 1963, Gordon joined The Lucy Show as Mooney for the 1963-64 season. In the interim, Charles Lane played the similar Mr. Barnsdahl character for the 1962-63 season. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 333 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (426 × 766 pixel, file size: 54 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 333 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (426 × 766 pixel, file size: 54 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Lucille Ball in still from a 1966 episode of The Lucy Show The Lucy Show was Lucille Balls follow up show to I Love Lucy. ... Joseph Kearns (born February 12, 1907; died February 17, 1962) was an American actor, who is best remembered for his role as Mr. ... Dennis the Menace was a television series based on the popular comic strip, which aired from 1959 to 1963 on CBS. It starred Jay North as Dennis Mitchell; Herbert Anderson as his father, Henry; Gloria Henry as his mother, Alice; Joseph Kearns as George Wilson and Sylvia Field as Martha... Lucille Ball in still from a 1966 episode of The Lucy Show The Lucy Show was Lucille Balls follow up show to I Love Lucy. ... Charles Lane (January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007[1] ) was an American character actor seen in many movies and TV shows, and at the time of his death was the oldest living American actor. ...

After the sale of Desilu studios, Ball shut down The Lucy Show in 1968 and retooled it into Here's Lucy. She used Gordon yet again---this time as her irascible boss (and brother-in-law) Harry Carter, at an employment agency that specialized in unusual jobs. It was really the Lucy Carmichael/Mr. Mooney relationship continued with new names and a new setting. Lucille Ball in still from a 1966 episode of The Lucy Show The Lucy Show was Lucille Balls follow up show to I Love Lucy. ... TV Guide cover, promoting Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burtons famous appearance on a 1970 episode of Heres Lucy Heres Lucy was Lucille Balls third network television sitcom. ...

Gordon all but retired when Here's Lucy ended, but in the 1980s he came out of retirement to join Ball one last time, for the short-lived Life With Lucy. When Lucille Ball finally called it a career, Gale Gordon turned out to be the only actor to have co-starred or guest-starred in every weekly series, radio or television, she had done since the 1940s. Life with Lucy was Lucille Balls last television series. ...

Gale Gordon died of lung cancer at age 89 in Escondido, California not much longer after the death of his wife, Virginia. They had no children. In 1999, he was inducted posthumously into the Radio Hall of Fame, and for his contribution to radio he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at Radio 6340 Hollywood Blvd. Lung cancer is the malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for 1. ... For the album by J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton, see The Road to Escondido Escondido is a city located in northern San Diego County, California just north of the city of San Diego. ... // The National Radio Hall of Fame and Museum, located in the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, Illinois, is a museum dedicated to recognizing those who have contributed to the development of the radio medium throughout its history in the United States. ... A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

Trivia

• Gordon was the first actor to play the role of Flash Gordon, in the 1935 radio serial The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. ^[1]
• Gordon reprised his role of Mr. Mooney in the first aired episode of Hi Honey, I'm Home!.

Flash Gordon is a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on January 7, 1934. ... Hi Home, Im Home! was a television sitcom which ran from 1991 to 1992. ...

For More Information:

• The Gale Gordon Archive
• Gale Gordon Biography on Everything Lucy

References

1. ^ Audio Classics Archive: The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon