Carl Gordon Filmography

Born:: Richmond, VA (near)
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: American character actor Carl Gordon appeared in feature films such as Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976). He was also an active member of the Negro Ensemble Company and appeared in over 30 of their productions. In the early '90s, he appeared on the Fox television network sitcom...Read More

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JAG: Port Chicago

Synopsis: A retired Navy man (Carl Gordon) who was convicted of mutiny along with 50 other black servicemen during WWII wants a new court-martial to set the record straight. ~ Bill Ecklund, All Movie Guide Read More

2002
ER: Humpty Dumpty

Synopsis: With this episode, recurring character "Dr. Dave" Malucci (Erik Palladino) becomes a regular. Elsewhere, John Cullum returns as Greene's (Anthony Edwards) cantankerous father, who arrives in Chicago from San Diego -- and promptly gets lost. As Kovac (Goran Visnjic) and Weaver (Laura Innes) try to Read More

1999
Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding

Actors: Halle Berry, Eric Thal, Lynn Whitfield, Carl Lumbly, Mike Warren

Synopsis: This two-part TV miniseries, adapted from Dorothy West's novel The Wedding, takes a look at mid-century issues of race and class in well-to-do black society. On Martha's Vineyard in 1953, debutante Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) stirs discord in her social-climbing family when she chooses to marry Read More

1998
Due South: An Eye for an Eye

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: Organizing a neighborhood watch group, Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) teach a self-defense course to a group of senior citizens. One of their elderly pupils, a mugging victim named Herb Colling (Carl Gordon), uses what he has learned to become a dangerous one-man vigilante force Read More

1995
The Piano Lesson

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Alfre Woodard and Charles S. Dutton star as sister and brother in this made-for-television Hallmark Hall of Fame production about an African-American family's struggle to retain their heritage. The drama tells the story of an impoverished black family whose history is told in the carvings Read More

1995
No Mercy

Actors: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, George Dzundza, Gary Basaraba

Synopsis: High-powered gangsters move this crime drama along at a fast pace. When two cops, Eddie Jillette (Richard Gere) and Joe Collins (Gary Basaraba), hear about a contract out on local crime boss Losado (Jeroen Krabbe), they go undercover posing as hitmen, and the result is murder. Collins and the man Read More

12/19/86
Violated

Actors: J.C. Quinn, April Daisy White, John Heard, D. Balin, Kaye Dowd

Synopsis: This grim exploitation drama follows the cruelty of New York gangsters who prey upon young, naive actresses by inviting them to fancy parties where they are to be viciously raped. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
The Brother from Another Planet

Actors: Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Sayles' first bonafide box-office success, Brother from Another Planet centers on a black escaped slave from a faraway planet (Joe Morton) who finds himself on the mean streets Harlem. Though the locals are put off by the slave's inability to speak, they are won over by his Read More

1984
Disaster on the Coastliner

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle, Yvette Mimieux, William Shatner

Synopsis: It's Airplane on the rails in the made-for-TV Disaster on the Coastliner. A crazed engineer holds his employers responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter. He gets even by setting two passenger trains on an irrevocable collision course. Salvation comes from a most unexpected corner in Read More

1979
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Rico Dawson, Sam "Birmingham" Briston

Synopsis: Based on the novel by William Brasher, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is set in the segregated south of 1939. African-American baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams), tired of being jerked around by the less-than-ethical managers of the Negro League teams, forms his Read More

1976
Gordon's War

Actors: Nathan C. Heard

Synopsis: In this incredibly violent actioner, a soldier returns from the war in Vietnam and finds that his Harlem neighborhood has become a drug-filled war zone of its own. The final straw comes when his wife overdoses. The grief-stricken vet quickly assembles a group of vigilantes to clean up the streets Read More

1973