1. Barry Gordon was born on December 21,1948 and is an American actor and political talk show host.
24 Facts About Barry Gordon
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Barry Gordon was the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, having served from 1988 to 1995.
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Barry Gordon is perhaps best known as the original voice of Donatello and Bebop in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
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Barry Gordon's stepfather, Bob Manning, was a crooner of popular love songs in the 1940s and 1950s, most known for his rendition of Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You".
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Barry Gordon was the youngest performer to hit a pre-Hot 100 Billboard chart when that song hit No 6 in 1955.
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Barry Gordon begins the recording by dedicating it to Barry Gordon.
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Barry Gordon was cast as Humberto in an episode of the sitcom Sally, starring Joan Caulfield, and as Chopper in Leave It to Beaver.
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Barry Gordon guest starred on the sitcoms The Ann Sothern Show and Dennis the Menace.
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At 13, Barry Gordon began a career on Broadway as Nick in Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns, a role for which he earned a Tony Award nomination.
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Barry Gordon later reprised that role in the film version opposite Jason Robards and Martin Balsam in 1965.
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Barry Gordon played a waiter in "Horror in the Heights", a 1974 episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
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Primarily as a character actor, Barry Gordon became a familiar face in numerous feature films and television series.
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Barry Gordon had notable guest-starring roles on Barney Miller as an embezzler, on Fish as a social worker, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a Ferengi businessman, and on Star Trek: Voyager as Ardon Broht, an alien publisher.
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Barry Gordon provided the voice of "Quicky" the Nesquik Bunny in television commercials for Nestle.
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In May 2009, Barry Gordon played the Cocker Spaniel in the Webkinz Pet of the Month Music Video for May 2009.
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Barry Gordon reprised the roles as the original Donatello and Bebop in three seasons of Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Barry Gordon became the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, holding the office for seven years.
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In 1998, Barry Gordon was the Democratic Party nominee for the United States Congress from the Pasadena, California area.
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Barry Gordon was defeated by Republican Party incumbent James Rogan.
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In 2004, when the local Air America Radio affiliate in Los Angeles went off the air, for a then-unspecified period of time, Barry Gordon started a live, call-in progressive political talk show on Pasadena's public-access television cable TV channel 56.
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In 2005, Barry Gordon hosted a weekly radio talk show heard on KRLA in Los Angeles, California.
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Since 2007, Barry Gordon has taught courses in politics and the media at the California State University, Los Angeles.
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In 2008, Barry Gordon debuted his daily Internet talk show Left Talk on BlogTalkRadio.
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Barry Gordon married Gail Schaper, a business psychologist, in 1993; they have two children.