- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHenry Racke
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Although he occasionally played honest police officials or army officers, New York-born C. Henry Gordon excelled at playing oily, duplicitous villains, whether gangsters, businessmen or evil rulers. Among the many evildoers he portrayed, his most memorable would have to be the murderous Surat Khan, who massacred prisoners, women and children, in the classic Errol Flynn swashbuckler The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936).- IMDb Mini Biography By: [email protected]
- Spouse?(? - December 3, 1940) (his death)
- Educated both in New York and abroad in Switzerland and Germany.
- Died after surgery to amputate his leg necessitated by the presence of a blood clot discovered while vacationing at a desert resort.
- Survived by widow and a sister, Joan Gordon, of New York.
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