Stuart Gordon

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Born: 11 August 1947 Died: 24 March 2020

Country of origin: United States

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

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Description: Stuart Gordon started his film directing career in 1985. After graduating from Lane Technical High School, Gordon worked as a commercial artist apprentice prior to enrolling at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Unable to get into the film classes, he enrolled in an acting class and ended up majoring in theater. In 1968, he directed a psychedelic adaptation of Peter Pan as a political satire. He was arrested on obscenity charges and Gordon dropped out of the university. He and his wife Carolyn formed the Organic Theater and moved the group to Chicago. The Organic performed their work on and off-Broadway, in Los Angeles, Stuart Gordon started his film directing career in 1985. After graduating from Lane Technical High School, Gordon worked as a commercial artist apprentice prior to enrolling at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Unable to get into the film classes, he enrolled in an acting class and ended up majoring in theater. In 1968, he directed a psychedelic adaptation of Peter Pan as a political satire. He was arrested on obscenity charges and Gordon dropped out of the university. He and his wife Carolyn formed the Organic Theater and moved the group to Chicago.

The Organic performed their work on and off-Broadway, in Los Angeles, and toured Europe. Among their productions were the world premiere of David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," which launched Mamet's playwriting career, the improv-based comedy "Bleacher Bums," which ran for over ten years in Los Angeles, and the hospital comedy E/R (1984), which became a TV series produced by Norman Lear.

He joined with Brian Yuzna and Charles Band's Empire Pictures to create the company's first major hit, Re-Animator (1985), based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft, which won a Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Gordon then helmed another Lovecraft adaptation Re-sonator (1986) and tackled the murderous Dolls (1987) followed by Robot jox (1989). Gordon co-created the story for Cariño, he encogido a los niños (1989) a major hit for Disney. The same year, he directed the remake and more graphic version of El péndulo de la muerte (1991). Other works include Fortaleza infernal (1992), and the screenplay for El dentista (1996) and Secuestradores de cuerpos (1993), which he co-wrote with long-time writing partner Dennis Paoli.

In 2001, Gordon returned to the H.P. Lovecraft territory with Dagon, la secta del mar (2001), and in 2003, directed King of the Ants (2003) about a housepainter-turned-hit man, and brought the David Mamet play Edmond (2005) to the screen.

He contributed to the horror anthology series Masters of Horror (2005) with the episode "Dreams in the Witch House," based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. He returned to the series in 2007 with the episode "The Black Cat," based on Edgar Allan Poe's story. And in 2008, he directed "Eater" for the NBC series Terror en estado puro (2008).

He is also known for frequently murdering his wife, actress 'Carolyn Purdy-Gordon' in many of his films. ... (more)

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