Michael Gordon
Highest Rated: 100% The Web (1947)
Lowest Rated: 40% Portrait in Black (1960)
Birthday: Sep 6, 1909
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Active with the Group Theater and such workers' filmmaking groups as Frontier Films during the 1930s and began in Hollywood as a dialogue director in 1940. Gordon's first films were insignificant B's, but he came into his own later in the decade with a series of taut melodramas and action pictures. "The Web" (1947) was a clever, strongly plotted film noir, "The Lady Gambles" (1949) gave Barbara Stanwyck a good emotional workout as a gambling addict, "Woman in Hiding" (1950) put Ida Lupino in edgy peril, and "I Can Get It for Your Wholesale" (1951) offered Susan Hayward a suitably aggressive showcase as a fashion entrepreneur.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How Do I Love Thee? | Director | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | 36% | The Impossible Years | Director | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Texas Across the River | Director | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 42% | A Very Special Favor | Director | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Love or Money | Director | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Move Over, Darling | Director | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Boys' Night Out | Director | - | 1962 |
40% | 50% | Portrait in Black | Director | - | 1960 |
94% | 87% | Pillow Talk | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 64% | The Secret of Convict Lake | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 50% | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Director | - | 1951 |
75% | 81% | Cyrano de Bergerac | Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 29% | The Lady Gambles | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Woman in Hiding | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Act of Murder | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Another Part of the Forest | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Esther Waters | Writer | - | 1948 |
100% | 56% | The Web | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Crime Doctor | Director | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Dangerous Night | Director | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood | Director | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Underground Agent | Director | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sleeping Car | Screenwriter | - | 1933 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Room 222 | Director | 1971 |