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Don Gordon was an American film and television actor, who was sometimes billed as Donald Gordon. 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), and The Education of Sonny Carson (1974).
Birth Name
Donald Walter Guadagno
Born
Saturday, 13 November 1926
Died
Monday, 24 April 2017
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool | Himself - Interviewee / Self - Interviewee | 2005 |
| Diagnosis Murder | Gus Benedict | 1993 |
| The Borrower | Charles Krieger | 1991 |
| The Exorcist III | Ryan | 1990 |
| Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge | Self | 1990 |
| Skin Deep | Curt | 1989 |
| Code Name Vengeance | Harry Applegate | 1987 |
| Lethal Weapon | Cop #2 | 1987 |
| Ohara | John Zito | 1987 |
| American Masters | Self - Actor | 1986 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool | Himself - Interviewee / Self - Interviewee | 2005 |
| Diagnosis Murder | Gus Benedict | 1993 |
| The Borrower | Charles Krieger | 1991 |
| The Exorcist III | Ryan | 1990 |
| Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge | Self | 1990 |
| Skin Deep | Curt | 1989 |
| Code Name Vengeance | Harry Applegate | 1987 |
| Lethal Weapon | Cop #2 | 1987 |
| Ohara | John Zito | 1987 |
| American Masters | Self - Actor | 1986 |
| MacGyver | Frank Bonner | 1985 |
| Cover Up | Brandon | 1984 |
| Airwolf | Sergeant Colvetti | 1984 |
| Automan | Leonard Martin | 1983 |
| Remington Steele | Anthony Delgetti / Dancer / Vincent Nash | 1982 |
| Knight Rider | Randy Cavanaugh / Police Lt. Dickerson | 1982 |
| Matt Houston | Sam Gleason | 1982 |
| The Powers of Matthew Star | Lloyd Stickland | 1982 |
| T.J. Hooker | Mickey Tavelli / Frank D'Costa | 1982 |
| The Beast Within | Judge Curwin | 1982 |
| Simon & Simon | Knapp / Mr. Lee - Assassin | 1981 |
| Strike Force | Bukowski | 1981 |
| Out of the Blue | Charlie | 1981 |
| The Final Conflict | Dean | 1981 |
| The Contender | Harry | 1980 |
| Paris | Jimmy Baron | 1979 |
| Hart to Hart | Lt. Gifford | 1979 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | Scanlon | 1979 |
| Vega$ | Willie | 1978 |
| Lucan | Prentiss | 1977 |
| The Love Boat | Frank Fenimore | 1977 |
| Street Killing | Sgt. Bud Schiffman | 1976 |
| Delvecchio | Det. Bill Travis | 1976 |
| Spencer's Pilots | Hank | 1976 |
| Charlie's Angels | Gene Wells | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | Glen Morgan | 1976 |
| Starsky and Hutch | Lt. Alec Corday | 1975 |
| Bronk | Ybarra | 1975 |
| Switch | Mickey Costello / Deputy Graylow | 1975 |
| The Towering Inferno | Kappy | 1974 |
| The Education of Sonny Carson | Pigliani | 1974 |
| Papillon | Julot | 1973 |
| The Return of Charlie Chan | Lambert | 1973 |
| Slaughter | Harry | 1972 |
| The Mack | Hank | 1973 |
| Toma | Alex Keever | 1973 |
| The Magician | Larry Ford | 1973 |
| Barnaby Jones | Carl Everett / Paul Tessler | 1973 |
| The Streets of San Francisco | Joey Latham / Tony Fabrieze | 1972 |
| Search | Alex Nevin | 1972 |
| Fuzz | Anthony La Bresca | 1972 |
| Z.P.G. | George | 1972 |
| Banacek | Buck Powell | 1972 |
| The Rookies | Steven Caras | 1972 |
| The Last Movie | Neville Robey / Neville | 1971 |
| Monty Nash | Garcia / Jason Manning | 1971 |
| Columbo | Alvin Deschler | 1971 |
| Cannon | Dave Tillis / Joe | 1971 |
| WUSA | Bogdanovich | 1971 |
| Cannon for Cordoba | Jackson Harkness / Jackson | 1970 |
| The Gamblers | Rooney | 1970 |
| Bullitt | Delgetti / Lt. Delgetti | 1968 |
| The Name of the Game | Art Panadero | 1968 |
| Mannix | Frank Marr | 1967 |
| The Invaders | Charlie Gilman | 1967 |
| The Felony Squad | Mace Baker | 1966 |
| Shane | Johnny Wake | 1966 |
| The Lollipop Cover | Nick Bartaloni | 1965 |
| The Wild Wild West | Gen. Titus Trask | 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | Claude Flood / Terrence Cober / Stuart Walker Tilden / Sid Alpert / Aaron Taylor | 1965 |
| 12 O'Clock High | Capt. Ernie Bradovich / Capt. Dominic Dejohn | 1964 |
| Peyton Place | Richard Jensen | 1964 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Stan Kowalski | 1964 |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | Millard Severin | 1963 |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Harry Edmunds / Seymour Hythe / Detective Brook | 1963 |
| Channing | Mario Saccone | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | Deputy Sheriff Morgan Fallon | 1963 |
| The Outer Limits | Dr. Dave Crowell / GIA Agent Luis D. Spain | 1963 |
| The Eleventh Hour | Billy Host | 1962 |
| Combat! | Pvt. Stevens | 1962 |
| The Doctors and the Nurses | Lenny Styles | 1962 |
| Empire | Quinn Serrato | 1962 |
| The Lloyd Bridges Show | Raul | 1962 |
| Target: The Corruptors | Benji | 1961 |
| The Defenders | Joey Tassili | 1961 |
| True Gang Murders | Narrator | 1961 |
| Insight | Greg | 1960 |
| The Blue Angels | Lt. Hank Bertelli / Lieutenant Hank Bertelli | 1960 |
| Mr. Lucky | Turkey Thomas | 1959 |
| Hawaiian Eye | Mickey Grill / Cliff Johnson | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | Andy Marshak / Salvadore Ross | 1959 |
| The Deputy | Queed - Foreman | 1959 |
| Johnny Staccato | Tap Casper | 1959 |
| Cry Tough | Incho | 1959 |
| Border Patrol | Johnny / Jack Tyler | 1959 |
| The Untouchables | Bick Cassandros / Frank Gruder / John Cropsie / Johnny Selkirk | 1959 |
| U.S. Marshal | Rile | 1958 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | Iron Man Brown | 1958 |
| Man with a Camera | Colonel | 1958 |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | Morley Teton / Buff Cole | 1958 |
| Colt .45 | Turk | 1957 |
| Trackdown | Hector / Morgan | 1957 |
| The Walter Winchell File | Deek | 1957 |
| Sugarfoot | Willie Barnes / Ed Rowland | 1957 |
| Revolt at Fort Laramie | Jean Salignac | 1957 |
| Playhouse 90 | Bobo Borotta / Pete | 1956 |
| The Kaiser Aluminum Hour | Sam | 1956 |
| The Benny Goodman Story | Tough Boy in Gang | 1956 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Rudy Stickney | 1955 |
| Frontier | Shuck | 1955 |
| Navy Log | Joey Michael | 1955 |
| The Millionaire | Paul Rameau | 1955 |
| The Best of Broadway | Dolph | 1954 |
| Law and Order | Bart Durling | 1953 |
| The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | Soldier | 1953 |
| Girls in the Night | Irv Kellener | 1953 |
| Mister Peepers | Stokey Wilson | 1952 |
| It's a Big Country: An American Anthology | Mervin | 1951 |
| Force of Arms | Sgt. Webber | 1951 |
| Let's Go Navy! | Sailor | 1951 |
| Halls of Montezuma | Marine | 1951 |
| Space Patrol | Vito Krone / Captain Pasko | 1950 |
| Twelve O'Clock High | First Patient in Base Hospital | 1949 |
| Studio One | Halley / Eddie Smith / Al Rossi | 1948 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | Young Man | 1948 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1963 | Emmy | Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
