Gale Gordon
Gale Gordon (born Charles Thomas Aldrich Jr., February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor who was Lucille Ball's longtime television foil, particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television sitcom The Lucy Show. Gordon also appeared in I Love Lucy and had starring roles in Ball's successful third series Here's Lucy and her short-lived fourth and final series Life with Lucy.
Gale Gordon
February 20, 1906
June 30, 1995 (aged 89)
Actor
1933–1991
Gordon was also a radio actor who played school principal Osgood Conklin in Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden, in both the 1948–1957 radio series and the 1952–1956 television series.[1] He also co-starred as the second Mr. Wilson in Dennis the Menace, replacing Joseph Kearns after he died.
Death[edit]
Gordon died of lung cancer on June 30, 1995, at the Redwood Terrace Health Center in Escondido, California, aged 89. Virginia Curley, his wife of nearly 60 years, had died in the same facility one month earlier. The couple had no children.[5]
Awards[edit]
In 1999, Gordon was inducted posthumously into the Radio Hall of Fame,[9] and for his contribution to radio he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6340 Hollywood Boulevard.