Born November 13, 1926· Los Angeles, California, USA
† Died April 24, 2017
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Emerging from a modest Los Angeles upbringing as Donald Walter Guadagno, he helped his family by selling newspapers during the Depression and later enlisted in the Navy at fifteen, serving on the Saratoga and Yorktown before attending a post-war drama school that prompted his professional name change to Don Gordon. His screen career launched with the lead in the syndicated series The Blue Angels (…
