| LC control no. | n 85262660 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gordon, C. Henry, 1884-1940 |
| Variant(s) | Racke, Henry, 1884-1940 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1884-06-17 |
| Death date | 1940-12-03 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Actors |
| Found in | Advice to the lovelorn [MP] 1933: credits (C. Henry Gordon) Halliwell's Filmgoer's companion, 1983 (C. Henry Gordon; b. 1882 d. 1940; American character actor) Inter. film necrology (C. Henry Gordon; b. June 17, 1884, N.Y.C. d. Dec. 3, 1940) IMDb, January 14, 2018 (C. Henry Gordon (1884-1940); born Henry Racke on June 17, 1884 in New York City, New York; died December 3, 1940 in New York City, New York; actor) Wikipedia, January 14, 208 (C. Henry Gordon; C. Henry Gordon (born Henry Racke, June 17, 1883--December 3, 1940) was an American stage and film actor; he was born in New York City, New York and died in Los Angeles, California after having his leg amputated; he was educated both in New York and abroad in Switzerland and Germany; for some years he owned and ran a silver mine in New Mexico but failed to make it pay, so he became an actor; he enjoyed a long stage career, on and off Broadway, before entering films; he appeared in 79 films between 1930 and 1940, frequently as a villain, such as Surat Khan in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), opposite Errol Flynn) |
| Associated language | eng |
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