Alex Gordon and his equally movie-crazy brother
Richard Gordon haunted
English movie theaters as boys before emigrating to New York in 1947.
Richard remained East Coast-based as he forged a career as a film
distributor and producer, while Alex set down roots in Hollywood, where
he got in on the ground floor at AIP and produced the company's
Die letzten Sieben (1955),
Geschöpf des Schreckens (1956) and many
more. He later left AIP to become an independent producer, turning out
such films as
Auf der U 17 ist die Hölle los (1959),
The Underwater City (1962)
and the westerns
Colorado Saloon 12 Uhr 10 (1965) and
Der schnellste Colt von River Falls (1965).
After his producing career wrapped, Alex accepted a position at 20th
Century-Fox, where he instituted a film restoration program and
rediscovered more than 30 Fox films that had been considered lost. In
1976, he left Fox for the Gene Autry
Organization, becoming vice-president of a company owned by the
B-western hero he had admired as a boy (Alex had been the president of
the British Gene Autry Fan Club) and worked for as a young man (he was
advance man on Autry's cross-country personal appearance tours in the
1950s).
