Gale Gordon

Gale Gordon belongs to my favorite breed of performer: the character actor who elevates the star by refusing to upstage them. Born Charles Thomas Aldrich Jr. in 1906 New York, he became Lucille Ball's enduring foil, most memorably as the tightfisted, perpetually exasperated banker Theodore J. Mooney on The Lucy Show. Comedy, I'd argue, lives or dies on the quality of its straight man and its blowhards, and his combustible slow burn was a masterclass. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame feels less like reward than overdue acknowledgment. I tip my hat to the artisans who hold up the laughter from one step behind.

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Name (English)

Gale Gordon

Name (Japanese)

ゲイル・ゴードン

Reading

げいる・ごーどん

Born

February 2, 1906 – June 30, 1995

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Horse

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Official sitehttp://www.galegordon.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale%20Gordon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351121

Tags

• New York
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.