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Bruce Gordon

  • Born: Feb 01, 1916 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '50s-'70s
  • Major Genres: Western, Action
  • Career Highlights: The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob, Curse of the Undead, The Lucy Show: Lucy the Gun Moll
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob (1959)

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Along with Marilyn Monroe and Paul Valentine, actor Bruce Gordon was given an "Introducing" credit in the 1949 Marx Brothers opus Love Happy. The swarthy, cleft-chinned Gordon played one of the henchmen of villainess Ilona Massey (the other henchman was Raymond Burr). After spending the 1950s in "heavy" film roles, Gordon was shown in a rare heroic light as American intelligence agent Matson on the 1958 TV series Behind Closed Doors. One year later, Gordon first essayed the role with which he will forever be associated: Frank Nitti, scowling second-in-command of Al Capone (Neville Brand) on the weekly TVer The Untouchables. Thereafter, Bruce Gordon was almost invariably cast as a mobster -- though often with a morbidly humorous streak, as witness his characterization of media-savvy syndicate boss Mr. Devere on the 1966 sitcom Run, Buddy, Run. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 
 
Columbia Encyclopedia: Gordon, Bruce S.,
1946–, African-American business executive and civil-rights leader, b. Camden, N.J.; grad. Gettysburg College (B.A., 1968), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S., 1988). Gordon entered the telecommunications industry as a management trainee with Bell of Pennsylvania in 1968 and retired from the business in 2003 as a senior executive with Verizon. In 2005 he was appointed president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The first business executive to head the organization, he pledged to press for greater economic equality for African Americans, but differences with the NAACP's board over the role the organization should play led Gordon to resign in 2007.
 
Wikipedia: Bruce Gordon (musician)


Bruce Gordon (born 1968 in London, England) is a Canadian rock musician, best known as the bassist for I Mother Earth.

He was born to parents of Scottish and German heritage. He immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of six. They first moved to Edmonton, Alberta but after only a year relocated to Oakville, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto.

His exposure to bands such as the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag and Bad Brains inspired him to pick up the bass guitar at the age of fifteen. He quickly took to the instrument and within a few months had joined a Toronto punk band called Intensive Chaos. Primarily self taught, Bruce continued to play in a string of basement bands and soon graduated to the independent scene where he started playing local gigs with Jonathan Cummins (Bionic, Doughboys), and Cam and Brad Maclean in Circus Lupus.

After finishing high school, Bruce enrolled in the jazz program at Humber College to further his musical knowledge. Around the same time the demise of Circus Lupus led him to join the newly formed Rocktopus. Rocktopus released several independent cassettes and an EP on Lone Wolf Records. The band toured regularly across Ontario and Quebec and successfully completed two cross Canada and one North American tour before finally calling it quits.

In 1993, only one month after Rocktopus split, Bruce joined I Mother Earth, who had already signed a worldwide deal with Capitol records. A few short weeks after Bruce joined the band they embarked on a pre-album release tour across the United states. Over the next ten years Bruce would release five multi-platinum albums with I Mother Earth, be presented with MuchMusic and Juno Awards and tour relentlessly around North America and Europe.

In 2003, the band parted ways to pursue different projects. Bruce expanded his teaching practice privately and at the Twelfth Fret and began to explore new musical endeavors. He tried his hand at as many different musical styles as possible, including various jazz and blues artists, and for a year worked with songwriter Alison Maclean in her band Fourstar. He also performed with the funk improv band Hot Fo Ghandi and the lo-fi jazz combo the Tiny Specks.

In early 2005, Bruce was hired by Blue Man Group to help open up a new Toronto-based show. He continues to perform with the eclectic ensemble on a variety of instruments that include electric zither, chapman stick and talking drum.

Earlier this year, Bruce joined with fellow Blue Man musicians Dave Steele and Steve Ballstadt to form the instrumental spy-go-go-surf-noir trio Experiment In Terror. His newest project is the live electro groove collective called Ostrich.


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