Gale Gordon

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1. #001

   Gale Gordon's wife, Virginia, died about a month before he did.

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2. #002

   Was playing Fred Mertz on "I Love Lucy" Lucille Ball's first choice?

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3. #003

   Gale Gordon found his niche as the stuffy, blustering characters of Our Miss Brooks (1952) and various Lucille Ball sitcoms. In his early film appearances he usually played stuffy officers. When he had to do a "slow burn" take, he made the most of it.

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4. #004

   Even in his later years, Gale Gordon was known for his ability to do a somersault. He can be seen doing somersaults in several episodes of "Here's Lucy."

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5. #005

   Gale Gordon met his wife, Virginia Bernice Curley, on the radio program "Death Valley Days."

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6. #006

   Gale Gordon was a favorite regular actor on the long-running Fibber McGee and Molly radio program, mostly playing the role of Mayor LaTrivia.

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7. #007

   Gale Gordon was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6340 Hollywood Blvd.

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8. #008

   Gale Gordon was born with a cleft palate. It was repaired when he was 18 months old by Dr. May, a surgeon in London.

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9. #009

   Gale Gordon was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1999.

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10. #010

    Gale Gordon is best known for his television work, particularly his long association with Lucille Ball, appearing in many of her series over more than twenty years from 1962 onward, usually as her grumpy adversary.

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11. #011

    Gale Gordon was the only actor besides Lucille Ball to appear in four of her sitcoms: I Love Lucy (1951), The Lucy Show (1962), Here's Lucy (1968) and Life with Lucy (1986). The first was the only one in which he was never a regular cast member.

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12. #012

    Gale Gordon's father, Charles T. Aldrich, was a vaudevillian.

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13. #013

    Gale Gordon was the son of Gloria Gordon.

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14. #014

    From the late 1930s to the early 1940s, Gale Gordon was the voice of "The Octopus," the lead villain in the weekly radio series Speed Gibson.

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