- While searching around in film reels, he had found the uncut reels of From Beyond (1986) and gave MGM permission to release the uncut version to DVD.
- Survived by his wife Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, three daughters, four grandchildren, and a brother.
- He was nominated for a 1982 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "E/R", at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for the 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Play for "Huckleberry Finn 2", at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- Was originally going to direct Lurking Fear (1994).
- Graduated from Lane Technical High School in Chicago, Illinois
- He was of Russian Jewish and Bohemian Jewish descent.
- He was nominated for the 1976 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "Switch Bitch", at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- Son of Rosalie (Sabath), a high school English teacher, and Bernard Gordon, who supervised a cosmetics plant.
- One of the founders of the Organic Theater Company in Chicago.
- He was awarded the 1975 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Play for "Huckleberry Finn 1", at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for the 1974 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director for "Bloody Bess", at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for the 1974 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director for "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit", at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for the 1977 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "Bleacher Bums", at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- Appears as himself in the documentary film Rondo and Bob (2020).
- Was slated to direct a Iron Man (2008) movie in the 1990's off a scrip written by Edward Neumeier that was focused on an older Tony Stark coming out of retirement. The project didn't make it beyond pre-production.
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