Michael Gordon (film director)
Michael Gordon, born as Irving Gordon Kunin ( born September 6, 1909 in Baltimore, Maryland, † April 29, 1993 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film director.
Life
Michael Gordon attended the Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He was a member of the Group Theatre, and came in 1940 to Columbia Pictures, where he made his first film in 1942 as a director. The mid-1940s he returned temporarily to the theater before he turned back to the movie. His film career in 1951 temporarily terminated because he refused to cooperate with the House Committee on Un - American Activities ( HUAC ) and was put on the blacklist so-called. Despite various theater engagements he was under financial pressure and decided to call the names of former companions left in closed session in 1958. After his return to film Gordon was to make only comedies and had a few strips with Doris Day commercial success. From 1971, taught at the University of California theater dramaturgy. He died at Century City Hospital in Los Angeles.