Gale GordonFilmography

Speedway

Actors: Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby, Gale Gordon, William Schallert

Synopsis: Steve Grayson (Elvis Presley) is a swinging racecar driver whose manager Kenny (Bill Bixby) has bet his money on the horses. Most of the horses didn't win, causing Steve to be visited by IRS agent Susan Jacks (Nancy Sinatra). Gale Gordon plays Hepworth, her stuffy supervisor, and William Shallert Read More

Sergeant Deadhead

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into space with a chimpanzee. Upon his return, he is a changed man and is ultimately sent to prison after he threatens to go public with the mix-up. Meanwhile, suave Sgt. Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Meets a Millionaire

Actors: Gale Gordon, Cesare Danova, Jay Novello

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) goes ga-ga over handsome Italian millionaire Umberto Fabriani (Cesare Danova). Alas, Fabriani speaks no English, and Lucy isn't much better at Italian, despite the "assistance" of that master linguist Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon). Things get worse when, during an intimate dinner Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Goes Into Politics

Actors: Gale Gordon, J. Pat O'Malley, Howard Caine, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) is campaigning for the office of City Council Comptroller, and Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) are his staunchest supporters. While planning a big political rally, Mooney entrusts Lucy with lining up some entertainment. Alas, Lucy forgets to make the necessary Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Scout Trip

Actors: Gale Gordon, Desi Arnaz, Jr., Barry Livingston

Synopsis: The local Cub Scouts are prepared to head for a major camporee when one of the boys' fathers is forced to pull out of the festivities. Thus it is that den mothers Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) sub for the absent father, as their Scout pack enters into a series of competitions for a Read More

The Lucy Show: Viv Moves Out

Actors: Gale Gordon, Roberta Sherwood, Robert Lanning

Synopsis: Singer Roberta Sherwood and her real son Robert Lanning guest in this episode as Roberta Schaefer and her "reel" son Bob. After a quarrel with Lucy (Lucille Ball), Viv (Vivian Vance) moves out of the house, whereupon banker Mooney (Gale Gordon) insists that a new tenant be found immediately. Enter Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Takes a Job at the Bank

Actors: Gale Gordon, Mary Jane Croft, Kathleen Freeman, Carole Cook, James Gonzales

Synopsis: When her son Jerry (Jimmy Garrett) needs money for a new tuba, Lucy (Lucille Ball) wangles a job at the bank. Not surprisingly, she succeeds in driving Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) crazy, even though she's been given the simple, virtually foolproof task of handing out toasters to cutomers opening new Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Is Her Own Lawyer

Actors: Gale Gordon, John McGiver, James Westerfield, Joseph Mell

Synopsis: It's Carmichael vs. Mooney when Lucy (Lucille Ball) issues a complaint about Mr. Mooney's noisy sheepdog, Lord Nelson. When Mooney (Gale Gordon) refuses to do anything to keep the mutt quiet, Lucy takes him to court, waiving the services of an attorney by representing herself. Can it be that Lucy Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Viv Open a Restaurant

Actors: Gale Gordon, Jack Albertson, Kathleen Freeman, Alan Hewitt, Benny Rubin

Synopsis: Once again, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) dream of untold riches by going into business together; this time their joint enterprise is a small restaurant. Unfortunately, despite several changes of "theme", the restaurant only seems to attract the local mailman and an army of bill Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Is a Process Server

Actors: Gale Gordon, Lee Millar, Richard Keith, Carole Cook, Stafford Repp

Synopsis: Ever on the lookout for extra money, Lucy (Lucille Ball lands a temp job as a process server. Her first assignment is to serve a subpoena to a prominent local banker--Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon), of course. Through a series of mishaps, Lucy is unable to hand over the subpoena at Mooney's home Read More

The Lucy Show: Chris Goes Steady

Actors: Gale Gordon, Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: Michael J. Pollard, best known to film buffs as the moronic "C.W. Moss" in Bonnie and Clyde, makes his one-and-only Lucy Show appearance as Ted Mooney, son of banker Theodore J. Mooney (Gale Gordon). Ted is going steady with Lucy's daughter Chris (Candy Moore) a situation that neither Lucy Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Plays Florence Nightingale

Actors: Gale Gordon, Kathleen Freeman, Paula Winslow, Bernie Kopell, Karen Norris

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) needs to have a check signed on behalf of daughter Chris (Candy Moore). Unfortunately, the only person authorized to sign the check is banker Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon), who is laid up in the hospital with a broken leg. Taking advantage of her "candy striper" status, Lucy tries Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman to Sing

Actors: Ethel Merman, Gale Gordon, Keith Thibodeaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Broadway legend Ethel Merman opens an account at the Danfield bank. Realizing what a pest the starstruck Lucy (Lucille Ball) can be, banker Mooney (Gale Gordon conspires with Merman to throw our redheaded heroine off the track. Thus, when Lucy spots the Read More

The Lucy Show: Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show

Actors: Ethel Merman, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Broadway legend Ethel Merman has agreed to perform in the Boy Scout variety show. Eagerly looking forward to sharing the stage with La Merman, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) are crestfallen when their Boy Scout sons arrange for the two ladies to Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Enters the Baking Contest

Actors: Gale Gordon, Mary Jane Croft, Kathleen Freeman, Carole Cook, Dorothy Konrad

Synopsis: When Viv (Vivian Vance) casts aspersions on Lucy's cooking, Lucy (Lucille Ball) defiantly enters a big baking contest. Things get out of hand early on, with Lucy and Viv each inadvertently passing off the other's cooking as her own. The situation rapidly degenerates into--what else?--a huge pie Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Puts Out a Fire in the Bank

Actors: Gale Gordon, Mary Jane Croft, Mary Wickes, Alan Hale, Jr., Irwin Charone

Synopsis: Stingy Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) refuses to provide funds for the Danville Volunteer Fire Department, arguing that fire captain Lucy (Lucille Ball) and her all-girl battalion are the epitome of ineptitude. Down but not out, Lucy cooks up a scheme to prove that the Fire Department is not only Read More

The Lucy Show: The Loophole in the Lease

Actors: Gale Gordon

Synopsis: Viv's son Sherman (Ralph Hart) accidentally causes the bathtub to overflow, collapsing the ceiling and obliging Viv (Vivian Vance) and Lucy (Lucille Ball) to embark upon an unusually messy plastering job. Banker Mooney (Gale Gordon) refuses to pay for the damage, telling Lucy that Viv should be Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Decides to Redecorate

Actors: Gale Gordon

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) decides that it is time to redecorate her house, but such an undertaking requires money. The trick is to sweet-talk pennypinching banker Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) to fork over the necessary funds. He does, but only after warning Lucy to keep costs down. Well, of course she Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Bank Scandal

Actors: Gale Gordon, James Flavin, Eddie Applegate

Synopsis: There is an unexplained shortage at the bank, and banker Theodore Mooney (Gale Gordon) has been spending money like a sailor. Lucy (Lucille Ball) puts two and two together and concludes (wrongly, of course), that Mooney has turned embezzler! The misunderstanding is played to the hilt, with Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Gets Locked in the Vault

Actors: Gale Gordon, Barry Livingston, Ellen Corby, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Gale Gordon makes his first series appearance as Theodore J. Mooney, the new banker in charge of Lucy's trust fund. Hoping to get on Mooney's good side, Lucy (Lucille Ball) inadvertently botches her chances when she subjects the banker's son Arnold (Barry Livingston) to a bad haircut. Rushing to Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and the Safe Cracker

Actors: Gale Gordon, Jay Novello, William Woodson, James Flavin, Ellen Corby

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) are freed from the bank vault in which they've been locked up for 18 hours. In trying to explain to the media how she accidentally locked the door in the first place, Lucy succeeds in trapping Mooney in the Read More

All Hands on Deck

Actors: Pat Boone, Buddy Hackett, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Eden, Warren Berlinger, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: This is a somewhat serviceable, light comedy by prolific director Norman Taurog (a favored helmer of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis films). Squeaky-clean Pat Boone is a singing lieutenant who has to briefly ship out to the Aleutians and regrettably leave Sally (Barbara Eden), his new love behind. Read More

Dondi

Actors: David Kory, David Janssen, Patti Page, Walter Winchell, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert Strauss

Synopsis: Based on a popular comic strip, this touching children's drama centers on an adorable saucer-eyed Italian war orphan who sneaks into the U.S. by stowing away aboard a returning naval ship. He did this in part to be with the benevolent soldiers who showed him kindness on the Christmas Eve before Read More

All in a Night's Work

Actors: Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Norma Crane

Synopsis: Tony Ryder (Dean Martin) thinks that Katie Robbins (Shirley MacLaine) was the mistress of a recently deceased millionaire. On this fragile plot peg hangs the rest of All in a Night's Work. The millionaire died with a smile on his face, and Tony, who stands to inherit the dead man's publishing Read More

Visit to a Small Planet

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Fred Clark, John Williams

Synopsis: When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to visit the blue planet. Once there the alien (Jerry Lewis) encounters a nice family who kindly take him in. The father is a news commentator. Ironically, just prior to Read More

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

Actors: Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Lane

Synopsis: Lou Costello made his only film appearance without Bud Abbott in 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. Lou plays a bumbling junk dealer who fancies himself a great inventor. One of his creations transforms his girlfriend Dorothy Provine into a towering giant! The subsequent shenanigans involve Lou, the Read More

Don't Give up the Ship

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert Middleton, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: Don't Give Up the Ship stars Jerry Lewis as a navy officer who is whisked away from his honeymoon by a senate investigating committee. The committee would like to know what happened to the U.S.S. Kornblatt, the battleship Lewis had commandeered during the War; the crew arrived home safely, but the Read More

Rally 'round the Flag, Boys!

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson, Dwayne Hickman, Joseph Holland

Synopsis: Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this screen version of Max Shulman's comic novel Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys; still, the film was a success, no small thanks to the star power of real-life husband and wife Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The scene is Putnam's Landing Read More

Playhouse 90: The Jet-Propelled Couch

Actors: Donald O'Connor, David Wayne, Peter Lorre, Gale Gordon, Phyllis Avery

Synopsis: This semicomic Playhouse 90 episode was based on a true case history, as related in The 50 Minute Hour, a book by psychologist Dr. Robert Lindner. Although Donald O'Connor receives top billing in the role of Lindner's counterpart Robert Harrison, the real star of the proceedings is David Wayne as Read More

Our Miss Brooks

Actors: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Robert Rockwell, Jane Morgan

Synopsis: Our Miss Brooks had been a radio and TV sitcom hit thanks to the considerable input of star Eve Arden. The film version of Our Miss Brooks was not quite as successful (why pay for something that you can get at home every week for free?), but it admirably captures the spirit of the original audio Read More

Francis Covers the Big Town

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Yvette Dugay, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild, Larry Gates

Synopsis: In this fourth of the "Francis" series, former Army officer Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) becomes a reporter for a big city newspaper. His greatest source of news tips is his talking mule Francis (voice by Chill Wills), who has become friendly with all the police horses. When asked how he Read More

Here Come the Nelsons

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Fresh from radio and TV, "America's Favorite Family" stars in Here Come the Nelsons. That's right: this harmless little comedy is purely a vehicle for Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky. Since there must be a plot, the scriptwriters contrive to have Harriet uncharacteristically express jealousy over Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy's Schedule

Actors: Gale Gordon, Edith Meiser

Synopsis: Gale Gordon, who would later co-star with Lucille Ball on TV's The Lucy Show, is seen in this I Love Lucy episode as Alvin Littlefield, the boss of Lucy Ricardo's husband, Ricky (Desi Arnaz). The plot involves Ricky's displeasure when Lucy shows up late for a dinner appointment with Mr. and Mrs. Read More

I Love Lucy: Ricky Asks for a Raise

Actors: Gale Gordon, Edith Meiser, Maurice Marsac

Synopsis: Ricky (Desi Arnaz) works up the courage to ask for a raise from his boss, Mr. Littlefield (Gale Gordon), only to be informed that he is being replaced at the Tropicana Club by bandleader Xavier Valdez. Hoping to win back Ricky's job, Lucy (Lucille Ball) devises a scheme whereby she, Ethel (Vivian Vance Read More

Our Miss Brooks: Season 01

Actors: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Robert Rockwell, Richard Crenna

A Woman of Distinction

Actors: Ray Milland, Rosalind Russell, Edmund Gwenn, Janis Carter, Mary Jane Saunders

Synopsis: A Woman of Distinction serves as a tailor-made vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The star is cast as Susan Middlecott, a highly respected college dean. As can be expected, Susan is too busy for romance -- at least until handsome professor Alec Stevenson (Ray Milland) enters the picture. At first, the Read More

Here We Go Again!

Actors: Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Edgar Bergen, Dummy: Charlie McCarthy, Harold Peary

Synopsis: Filmed on leftover Magnificent Ambersons sets, Here We Go Again is the most endearingly wacky of RKO Radio's Fibber McGee & Molly vehicles. The story begins as the popular radio duo prepares to leave their home town of Wistful Vista and embark upon a second honeymoon. After discovering that hotel Read More

The Lucy Show: Season 06

Actors: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: As The Lucy Show entered its sixth season in the fall of 1967, star/producer Lucille Ball had already determined that the show had run its course and would not be returning the following fall. This, however, did not mean that Ball was bidding farewell to series television. Season six offers Read More

The Lucy Show: Season 05

Actors: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: Although actress/producer Lucille Ball had gone through her usual song and dance with CBS by insisting that the fourth season of The Lucy Show would be the last, the network came through with enough incentives and perks -- financial and otherwise -- to encourage the actress to continue the series Read More

The Lucy Show: Season 03

Actors: Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Gale Gordon, Candy Moore, Jimmy Garrett

Synopsis: Season three of The Lucy Show is something of a watershed for the series. To be sure, most of the episodes adhere to the formula established during the first two seasons, with wacky widow Lucy Carmichael (Lucille Ball) and her divorced best friend and housemate Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance) getting Read More

The Lucy Show: Season 04

Actors: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: The Lucy Show undergoes a number of major changes as the series enters it fourth season. For one thing, the show is now lensed in color rather than black-and-white. For another, wacky widow Lucy Carmichael (Lucille Ball) has moved from Danfield, CA to San Francisco -- as has banker Theodore J. Read More