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- Gordon Douglas (December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City. Born Gordon Douglas Brickner, he began his career as a child actor.
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Gordon Douglas Brickner (December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director and actor, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures.
Gordon Douglas. Director: Them!. Starting out as a child actor, Gordon Douglas was eventually hired by Hal Roach as a gag writer. His first directorial assignments were for Roach's "Our Gang" series. Graduating to features, Douglas stayed with comedies, directing Oliver Hardy in Zenobia (1939) and both Hardy and Stan Laurel in Saps at Sea (1940).
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Gordon Douglas. Director: Them!. Starting out as a child actor, Gordon Douglas was eventually hired by Hal Roach as a gag writer. His first directorial assignments were for Roach's "Our Gang" series.
- December 15, 1907
- September 29, 1993
Gordon Douglas (born December 15, 1907, New York City, New York, U.S.—died September 29, 1993, Los Angeles, California) was an American filmmaker who was noted for his versatility; he directed popular Our Gang shorts before launching a feature-film career that included musicals, westerns, film noirs, and crime dramas.
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Oct 2, 1993 · Douglas, who won an Academy Award for “Bored of Education,” a 1936 one-reel short subject that was among his 30 “Our Gang” films, was 85 when he died Wednesday in a Los Angeles convalescent home....
Born December 15, 1907; died September 29, 1993, in Los Angeles, CA. Director, writer, and actor. Douglas directed thirty of the popular, comedic Our Gangshort films early in his career, winning an Academy Award for the episode "Bored of Education."
An actor and casting director for Hal Roach in the early '30s, Gordon Douglas appeared in the "Boy Friends" comedy series. He began directing in 1936, guiding the Little Rascals in some of their best two-reelers, including Bored of Education and Rushin' Ballet, and their only feature, General Spanky (co-directed with Fred Newmeyer).
