1. Albert Gordon MacRae was an American actor, singer, and television and radio host.
21 Facts About Gordon MacRae
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Gordon MacRae was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to parents William LaMont MacRae, a toolmaker and radio singer, and Helen Violet Sonn, a concert pianist.
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Gordon MacRae later attended and graduated in 1940 from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and thereafter served as a navigator in IX Troop Carrier Command in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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Gordon MacRae made his Broadway debut in 1942, acquiring his first recording contract soon afterwards.
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Gordon MacRae was the host and lead actor on The Railroad Hour, a half-hour anthology series made up of condensed versions of hit Broadway musicals.
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Gordon MacRae was reunited with Haver and Butler in The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady.
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Gordon MacRae was in a military school musical, About Face with Eddie Bracken, then he and Day did a sequel to On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon.
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Gordon MacRae played Buddy De Sylva in The Best Things in Life Are Free for 20th Century-Fox.
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MacRae was host and singer on The Gordon MacRae Show on NBC in 1956.
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Gordon MacRae appeared frequently on television, on such variety programs as The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
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Gordon MacRae appeared on drama shows such as Lux Video Theatre.
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Gordon MacRae starred in the TV musical The Gift of the Magi.
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Thereafter, Gordon MacRae appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and The Bell Telephone Hour.
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Gordon MacRae had supporting roles in the films Zero to Sixty and The Pilot.
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Gordon MacRae was married to Sheila Gordon MacRae from 1941 until 1967.
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Gordon MacRae battled alcohol problems for many years, but overcame them by the late 1970s.
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Gordon MacRae died in 1986 of pneumonia, at his home in Lincoln, Nebraska, aged 64.
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Gordon MacRae was buried at the Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Gordon MacRae replaced Frank Sinatra on a radio program in 1943, but he soon had to leave for military service.
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From 1945 to 1948 he hosted and performed on The Gordon MacRae Show for the CBS radio network.
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Gordon MacRae appeared in programs as shown in the table below.