Vic Gordon

For the Australian rules footballer, see Vic Gordon (footballer).

Vic Gordon^[1] (4 March 1909 – 2 December 2003)^[2] was a British Australian character actor of vaudeville, television and film, best known for his achievements in the fields of drama, light entertainment, music and comedy.

Vic Gordon
Born	(1909-03-04)4 March 1909 London, England, United Kingdom[1]
Died	2 December 2003(2003-12-02) (aged 94) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality	British Australian
Other names	FunnyFace
Occupations	Actor vaudevillian comedian singer
Known for	Matlock Police as Bert Kennedy Young Ramsay as Jack Lambert Roles in Homicide and Division 4 series The Happy Show [1]
Children	3
Family	Jacqui Gordon (step-daughter)

Biography

Vic Gordon was born in March 1909 in the London, England, United Kingdom, he was a staple on early Australian television.^[3] Born in the United Kingdom, Vic moved to Australia in 1959. His early performances were comedy and vaudeville with 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 (1960–1965), with Harry "Happy" Hammond.

Gordon, like many early Australian TV actors became best known as a staple of Crawford Productions, and as a character actor he appeared in 16 different roles in Homicide and 9 different roles in Division 4, before becoming a regular best known as the no-nonsense desk Sergeant Bert Kennedy, in the production Matlock Police which ran from 1971–1976 on the various 0-10 Network stations in Australia, (now known as the Ten Network), and as (Jack Lambert) on Young Ramsay. Later roles included The Flying Doctors, Blue Heelers and Neighbours.^[4]

Three years after the death of his wife Josie in 1971, he remarried Jean Lochhead. Gordon died in Melbourne, Victoria aged 94 on 2 December 2003.^[1][5]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	Panto Parade		TV movie
1956	Pantomime Tea Dance	Himself	TV movie
1982	Next of Kin	Montclare Resident	Feature film
1982	Lonely Hearts	Patricia's father
1990	Quigley Down Under	Elderly Man	Feature film
1992	Garbo	Old Time Card Sharp	Feature film

TV series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960–1965	The Happy Show	Vic "Funnyface" Gordon	TV series
1966–1976	Homicide	George Roberts / Wally Blake / James Ellingham / Bob Morrison / Darkie Gates / Drunk / Ralph Anderson / Bill Flynn / Les Riley / Cemetery Gatekeeper / Luther Smith / Carpenter / Stan Ferris / Claude Finch / Tony Molloy / Nick Perry	TV series, 17 episodes
1967	Hunter	Wilson	TV series, Episode: "The Benedict File: Part 2"
1969–1970	Division 4	Pat Doolan / Roberts / Pete Rowe / Len Jones / Stan Foster / Friendly / Harry Lester / Eddie Copeland / George de C	TV series, 10 episodes
1971–1976	Matlock Police	Sgt. Bert Kennedy	TV series, 228 episodes
1976	Tandarra	Walter Drummund	TV series, Episode: "The Legacy of Walter Dummett"
1976	The Bluestone Boys	Governor Beams	TV series
1977	Bluey	Jake Hobbs	TV series, Episode: "A Touch of Stardust "
1977–1978	Young Ramsay	Jack Lambert	TV series, 12 episodes
1978–1979	Cop Shop	Mr. Bates / Cartwright / Albert Hartley / Godfrey	TV series, 6 episodes
1981	I Can Jump Puddles	Drunk	Miniseries, Episode: "Getting Your Breath"
1981	Holiday Island	Pat Donegan	TV series, Episode: "Rendezvous"
1983	All the Rivers Run	Examaning Skipper	TV series, 2 episodes
1984	Special Squad	Dr. John Perry	TV series, Episode: "Country Girl"
1980–1986	Prisoner	Judge Cawthorne / Doctor Kelley / Doctor Buscomb / Uncle Perc	TV series, 9 episodes
1989	Round the Twist	Old Man Chompers	TV series, Episode: "A Good Tip for Ghosts"
1989	Pugwall	Old Gus	3 episodes
1992	The Flying Doctors	Mr. Freeman	TV series, Episode: "The Accomplice"
1992	Good Vibrations	Old Joe	Miniseries
1995–2000	Blue Heelers	Mr Blyth / Harry Jinks / -Harry Quinn	TV series, 4 episodes
1999–2000	Neighbours	Funeral Celebrant / Jimmy LeVan	TV series, 2 episodes, (final appearance)

References

1. Herald Sun, 5 December 2003, print edition, page 9, (first edition)
2. "Vic Gordon".
3. Who is Vic Gordon?
4. National Film and Sound Archive
5. Trask, Kevin (2 November 2016). "Whatever happened to... Vic Gordon". Melbourne Observer. Vol. 48, no. 1656. p. 14.

External links

• Vic Gordon at IMDb