Barry Gordon

Barry Gordon ( born December 21, 1948 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American film and theater actor.

Biography

Early life

Gordon stands since 1956, since he was six years before the camera and took the first time in 1960 in an episode of the television series would be one adult attention. At the age of 13, he was in 1962 in the piece Thousand Clowns at the side of Jason Robards for the first and only time on Broadway on stage. For the role of Nick Burns, he was in 1963 for the Tony Award nominated.

Barry Gordon is married and has one son.

Acting Career

Gordon is regarded as a versatile actor, who by his synchronization of the turtle Donatello in the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became known to a wide audience, especially from 1987 to 1994. He also borrowed time already, from 1981 to 1990 the Smurf Brainy in The Smurfs his voice. Before the camera, Gordon excelled in various roles, including in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine and formats Voyager or even in an episode of the television series ER - Emergency Room. In 1999, he was also in the movie Green Desert by director Anno Saul in Germany before the camera.

In 1988 Gordon the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood, an office which held it until 1995.

Political ambitions

Barry Gordon, a member of the Democratic candidate in 1996 for the first time for California for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States, but lost the code to Doug Kahn, who in turn lost in the election against the Republican incumbent James E. Rogan. In 1998, Gordon tried again, and this time the primaries could decide for themselves. In the election, however, Gordon Rogan defeated with 46% to 51% of the vote. His political experience uses Gordon since 2007 as a lecturer in politics and media studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Also, Gordon engaged in social and charitable concerns and is a sponsor of Camp Will- A-Way, a summer camp for mentally and physically handicapped children.

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