Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948) is an American film and television actor and political talk show host and producer. He was the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, having served from 1988 to 1995.
Gordon was born in Brookline, Masaachusetts. He began his professional life at age three; in his TV debut, he won second place on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour singing Johnnie Ray's Cry. At six, Gordon recorded Nuttin' For Christmas, st...
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Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948) is an American film and television actor and political talk show host and producer. He was the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, having served from 1988 to 1995.
Gordon was born in Brookline, Masaachusetts. He began his professional life at age three; in his TV debut, he won second place on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour singing Johnnie Ray's Cry. At six, Gordon recorded Nuttin' For Christmas, still one of the top-selling Christmas recordings of all time. He was the youngest performer ever to hit the Billboard Hot 100, when that song hit #6 in 1955.
As a child star, Gordon also appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show and Star Time with Benny Goodman. Barry Gordon also appeared as Humberto in an episode of the NBC sitcom Sally, starring Joan Caulfield, and as Chopper in ABC's Leave It to Beaver Episode 119: "Beaver's House Guest".
When he was thirteen, Gordon debuted on Broadway, as Nick in Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns, a role that...
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