Vic Gordon
Vincent Gordon was a British Australian character actor of vaudeville, television and film, and comedian and singer, who best known for his achievements in the fields of drama, light entertainment, music and comedy.
Biography
Vic Gordon was born in March 1909 in London, England. He moved to Australia in 1959 where his early performances were in comedy and vaudeville alongside celebrities such as Maurie Fields, Val Jellay and Peter Colville. He was known as Vic "Funnyface" Gordon on the HSV-7 Melbourne and ATN-7 Sydney television afternoon children's programme: The Happy Show, with Harry "Happy" Hammond.Gordon, like many early Australian TV actors, was a staple of Crawford Productions. He appeared in 16 different roles in Homicide and 9 roles in Division 4, before becoming a regular as the no-nonsense desk Sergeant Bert Kennedy, in the production Matlock Police, and as on Young Ramsay. Later roles included The Flying Doctors, Blue Heelers and Neighbours.
Three years after the death of his wife Josie in 1971, he married Jean Lochhead. Gordon died in Melbourne, Victoria aged 94 on 2 December 2003.