C. Henry Gordon
Acting
Biography
C. Henry Gordon (born Henry Racke) was an American stage and screen actor. Sources conflict as to whether his June 17 birth date was in 1884 or in 1883. (1884 is most commonly accepted, though most of his obituaries state he died at age 57.)
Born: June 17, 1884
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
Scarface
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Advice to the Lovelorn
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.
Women in Hiding
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
This Side of Heaven
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Death on the Diamond
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
Hide-Out
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
Gabriel Over the White House
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Penthouse
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Filmography
as John 'Boss' Bailey
as Dr. Cream
as General Castro
as Dr. Mansby
as Leon Fenten
as Prefect of Police J. Romaine
as Henry Holderness
as Fornay
as Santa Ana
as Mexican Captain
as Lew Ralston
as Kolter
as Capt. Savatt
as Nikolai Kamarov
as Nelson Rood
as Ben Alleu Bey
as Ivor Nassau
as le Prince Poniatowski
as Sultan of Padaya
as Kilgour
as Arthur Hughes
as Captain Nardant
as Lt. Valcour
as Surat Khan
as Brad Anthony
as Jordan Winslow
as Lieutenant Petaine
as Gino
as Gordoni
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
as Philip the Second, King of France
as Nick Shawn
as Dr. John Mason Temple
as Joe Karnes
as Tony Berrelli (the Boss)
as Sullivan
as Ali Bey
as Dr. Cunningham
as Sam Kee
as William Barnes
as Detective Daly
as Tony Perez
as Kane
as Paul Clayton
as Tim Crowley
as Daudet
as Ricco
as Jim Crelliman
as Dave Holmes
as Captain Radak
as Panto Nikitch
as Mayor Starling
as Nick Diamond
as Commissar
as State's Attorney
as Lombardo
as Grand Duke Igor
as Gregg
as Yoganda
as Blacksnake Skinner
as Swami Yogadachi
as Alan Hinsdale
as Voronsky
as Detective Martin
as Dr. Stuart
as Attorney Graves
as Italian General
as Insp. Ben Guarino
as Don Paco Morales
as Dubois
as Renard
as Harry Lamson
as Muller
as Jack Curtis
as Huntley Van Horn (uncredited)
as John Ross
as Serge Ratoff
as Captain Mordiconi
as Minor Role (uncredited)