I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
About Gale Gordon
Gale Gordonwas an American character actor who was Lucille Ball’s longtime television foil, particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball’s second television sitcom The Lucy Show. Gordon also appeared in I Love Lucy and had starring roles in Ball’s successful third series Here’s Lucy and her short-lived fourth and final series Life with Lucy.
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I’ve worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
American actor (1906-1995)
My wife and I love to read. We’re going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
American actor (1906-1995)
I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
American actor (1906-1995)
My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
American actor (1906-1995)
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a… factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don’t have time to perfect anything in television.
American actor (1906-1995)
The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn’t open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn’t talk well.
American actor (1906-1995)