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Gordon Sterne
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Gordon Sterne
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1923-01-16,Essen, Germany
Gender
Male
Biography
Gordon Sterne was a German-born English actor with a prolific career spanning over five decades in film, television, and theater. He is perhaps most widely recognized for his role as Mr. Kessler in the horror-comedy classic An American Werewolf in London (1981), where his character famously meets a gruesome end while watching The Muppet Show in a dream sequence. He left his native Nazi-dominated birth country in 1941 and became a native of Windsor, Ontario with a father who worked in the tobacco business and mother, who was supportive of his theatre aspirations. Sterne studied economics at the University of Western Ontario before volunteering for the Canadian Army in 1944, serving in the infantry as a sergeant. Heading to New York in 1945, he trained and graduated from the Dramatic Workshop under the tutelage of its founder Erwin Piscator, at the same time as Rod Steiger, Bea Arthur, Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis and Harry Belafonte. Sterne then began his acting career in America, working on radio and TV, in summer stock and off-Broadway. After a career on stage, playing the leading man in various plays in New Jersey during the 1940s, as well as Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand at Washington's Arena Stage and Joseph K in The Trial at New York's Provincetown Playhouse during the early 1950s, Sterne moved to Britain in 1956 where he had over 50 years working in theatre, TV and film. Being able to speak German (and French) enabled Sterne to perform in Drop Dead Darling on tour in Germany as well as a spell with the English Theatre in Vienna.

Filmography

The Assassination Bureau

6.744

The Assassination Bureau
1969-03-09

Screaming Blue Murder

8

Screaming Blue Murder
2006-07-30

The Razor's Edge

6.413

The Razor's Edge
1984-10-19

7

Rating Notman
1982-04-28

4.167

Sex Play
1974-12-01

Laws of Attraction

5.822

Laws of Attraction
2004-04-04

6.2

Merlin
1992-04-30

The Great Van Robbery

5.25

The Great Van Robbery
1959-01-16

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

7.2

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970-05-02

The Adding Machine

6.667

The Adding Machine
1969-09-23

The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

0

The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972-11-07

An American Werewolf in London

7.4

An American Werewolf in London
1981-08-21

The Millionairess

5.317

The Millionairess
1960-10-18

The Child and the Killer

7

The Child and the Killer
1959-02-01

5

The Vulture
1966-12-23

6.864

Highlander
1986-03-07

6.796

Libel
1959-10-23

7.069

Taste of Fear
1961-04-19

7

The Fur Collar
1962-12-01

A Promise of Bed

2.75

A Promise of Bed
1969-12-01

4.15

Four Play
2001-09-02

Battle of the V-1

5.2

Battle of the V-1
1958-01-01

John and Yoko: A Love Story

6.833

John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985-12-02

6.077

The Protectors
1972-09-29

7.8

The Tudors
2007-04-01

Hancock's Half Hour

7.389

Hancock's Half Hour
1956-07-06

7.9

Doctor Who
1963-11-23

Jeeves and Wooster

8.1

Jeeves and Wooster
1990-04-22

7.748

The Prisoner
1967-09-29

7.366

The Saint
1962-10-04

7.366

The Saint
1962-10-04

Reilly: Ace of Spies

7.045

Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983-09-05

7.719

UFO
1970-09-16

7.719

UFO
1970-09-16

The New Avengers

7.12

The New Avengers
1976-10-22

Out of This World

5.75

Out of This World
1962-06-24

7

Second Verdict
1976-05-27

Armchair Theatre

6

Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08

6.75

Melissa
1997-05-12

10

Espionage
1963-10-02