Gordon Mitchell

Gordon Mitchell
Date of Birth: 29 Jul 1923
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 79 (Actor)
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Rio Bravo
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter... (imdb)
The Man with the Golden Arm
Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction (imdb)
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post. (imdb)
The Spirit of St. Louis
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927. (imdb)
Evil Spawn
Microbes are brought back to earth via a space probe from Venus. A scientist is using them in experiments on ageing, but dies before the work is finished. His assistant approaches an ageing actress who is being passed by for the lead roles, and she injects the serum hoping to become young again. When the actress is still passed up for the plum roles, the alien bacterium transforms her into a hideous bug-like alien resulting in a predictable attrition problem amongst her detractors. (imdb)
The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe
A Chinese immigrant named Chin How lands in a small Texas town inhabited by hard-nosed cowboys who don't take kindly to outsiders. The town folk soon realize that Chin is no ordinary drifter and he quickly gains a reputation for his unbeatable fighting skills... (imdb)
Death on the Run
A teenage musician's family is moved under witness protection while he is away at band camp. When he returns home early to find them missing his search is obstructed by the fact that the mob are trying to track his family through him and the police are trying to find him to reunite the family - and he is afraid of both. (imdb)
Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
A masked superhero searches for a magical golden relic while trying to prevent the plundering of an Egyptian tomb. (imdb)
Erik, the Viking
Viking chief Thorvald dies from a mortal combat wound. He realizes his son Erloff is not a worthy successor, but his will divides his property equally between him and Erik, the valiant son of his sister, who also gets his weapons and the mission to lead a sea-faring expedition to find new land for a settlement, crucial as their Scandinavian home village won't be able to resist the might of the Danish kingdom. (imdb)
Kerim, Son of the Sheik
In the Middle East, circa 1860s, the evil Omar seeks to become Khadive by killing off his adversaries and by marrying the reluctant Fawzia, favorite niece of the current Khadive. Omar's brutal policies result in the death of a young woman named Laila. Laila's brother, Kerim, then becomes Omar's sworn enemy. Now known as "the Black Shiek," Kerim becomes a Robin Hood of the desert, rallying various tribes in a revolt against Omar... (imdb)
A Barrel Full of Dollars
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico. Outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada's Kid's family.
Emanuelle\
After years of abuse at the hands of her husband, a woman, Emmanouella, is pushed to the breaking point. She hires a hitman to do in her husband, but just when she thinks her troubles are at an end, the assassin blackmails her. As her husband's business partner struggles to prove her guilt, and as the hitman continues to threaten her new found security, Emmanouella struggles to keep her name clear and to keep her naive stepdaughter from becoming tangled in the web of danger she has created.
Sartana: Angel of Death
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name. (imdb)
She
In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing against the odds to defeat the evil Norks. (imdb)
Beyond the Law
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it
Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens
A rebel leader returns to his city for a final confrontation with the evil king he is fighting. However, he finds himself attracted to the king's beautiful niece. (imdb)
Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops
Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own. (imdb)
Frankenstein \
A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women. (imdb)
Endgame
A telepathic mutant recruits a post-World War III TV game-show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety. (imdb)
The Arizona Kid
A Filipino immigrant travels the American west searching for his relatives. Although he doesn't speak much English, he winds up getting involved with Chinese immigrants, a beautiful blonde American girl, and finds himself appointed sheriff of a small town that's having trouble with an outlaw gang. (imdb)
The Big Bust Out
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out. (imdb)
Blood Delirium
After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his necrophiliac butler--to bring it back to his castle and use it for "inspiration". He soon meets a beautiful musician who looks exactly like his late wife and brings her back to his castle. (imdb)
Kill or Be Killed
A wandering gunfighter joins the good side in a conflict between two rival rancher families (imdb)
Fury of Achilles
Fury of Achilles (L'Ira di Achille) stars Steve Reeves lookalike Gordon Mitchell in the title role. It's the traditional Greeks vs. Trojans story, with Achilles avoiding extermination due to his seeming invulnerability. After a number of triumphs (many of them drawn from other Greek legends), Achilles is vanquished, due to his fabled heel. Jacques Bergerac also stars in this extravagant sword 'n' sandal piece. (allmovie.com)
The Giant of Metropolis
Muscleman Ohro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord Yoh-tar and his hideous super-science schemes. (imdb)
Rita of the West
Little Rita is a female gunslinger who travels to the Far West chasing outlaws. She takes gold from them and hides it in a cave which she plans to blow up one day and get rid of the root of all evil : money. A reformed cow boy decides to share her way of life. (imdb)
Angel\
A town comes alive with violence as one man seeks revenge! (imdb)
Django and Sartana\
Maniac outlaw Burt Kelly (Mitchell) decides he needs a hostage to make his escape to Mexico, so he orders the kidnapping of a local rancher's daughter (Blondell). This raises the prices on the gang, drawing the attention of vicious bounty hunter, Django (Powers). Crazy Burt, fearing Sartana (Davis), the local protector of the common people, will be after him decides to elimanate this obstacle, bringing the bounty killer and the people's hero together with a common objective... (spaghetti-western.net)
Umbrella Coup
Pierre Richard stars as Gregorie, a down-and-out actor anxious to find a job. He wanders into the office of a talent agent and signs a contract to work in a mega-buck action thriller, or so he thinks. In fact, he has actually signed a contract as a hitman with a mafioso that he mistook for a talent agent. The misunderstandings and close calls start flying right and left as Gregorie and the gangsters head for a wild finale at a St. Tropez hotel. (allmovie.com)
Frankenstein\
Rossano Brazzi plays the crackpot Frankenstein whose latest creature is a goofy, dome-headed neanderthal cleverly named Goliath. Typical of monsters, Goliath has the hots for Frankenstein's new squeeze, Krista. When Genz, a horny necrophile dwarf, is expelled from the castle, he promptly makes friends with Ook, a second neanderthal. Out for revenge, Genz lets Goliath loose to go head to pointy-head with Ook in a good old-fashioned monster rumble. (SomethingWeird.com)
A Fistful of Death
A lone gunman tracks down the members of an outlaw gang that killed his friends. (imdb)
Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado
Stan Cooper and Gordon Mitchell star as a pair of bumbling conmen who wander through the West looking to make a fast buck. Their plans go awry when they run into a blustering, foul-tempered Mexican general who wants them eliminated. (Spaghetti-western.net)
Hercules and the Princess of Troy
The mighty Hercules battles a sea monster to save the legendary city of Troy. (imdb)
Operation Nam
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret. (imdb)
Dead for a Dollar
A false priest named Glenn, pretending to celebrate a funeral, is actually burying a great sum of money, but when his accomplices flee with the booty, a desperate search begins! The intervention of the bandit's lover complicates the intrigued plot with tricks, lies and betrayals. (spaghetti-western.net)
The Django Story
This audaciously dishonest spaghetti western from prolific director Demofilo Fidani (using the pseudonym "Lucky Dickerson") was created piecemeal using lengthy sequences from Fidani's previous films. The premise has legendary gunslinger Django (Hunt Powers) recounting some of his greatest adventures to a rapt Wild Bill Hickock (Gerardo Rossi as Jerry Ross) in a saloon. The stories which Django tells are entire scenes from such Fidani films as Arrivano Django e Sartana... (spaghetti-western.net)
Dead Men Don\
This peculiar spaghetti western from prolific director Demofilo Fidani (using the pseudonym "Miles Deem") deals with a man named Blonde (Chet Davis) tracking bounty hunter Lazar (Hunt Powers) to the mining town of Lamazos. The evil town boss, Barret (Gordon Mitchell), wants Lazar dead, so he sends a group of assassins to murder him. Lazar survives, and Barret ends up offering him $100,000 to leave town. (spaghetti-western.net)
Little Godfather
Bruce Liang is a walking weapon, no doubt. And his skills come in handy when he goes to Rome and must take on the Sicilian Mafia in a showdown to the death. His fists are atomic, and his legs are nuclear. No special effects, no camera tricks: Bruce Liang is the real deal! Super aerial action and earth shattering power come from Bruce Liang when the Dragon goes to Rome. Move over Gladiator, here comes the Little Godfather!! (snacktimedirect.com)
Terror Force Commando
A Cameroonese police officer (Alphonse Beni) and a CIA agent (Richard Harrison) try to prevent the Pope from being assassinated by Italian terrorists during his African tour. (imdb)
Vai avanti tu che mi vien da ridere
Comedy about an inspector who has been passed over for promotion many times, and the problems in his personal life. (ftvdb.bfi)
Doctor Jekyll Likes Them Hot
A modern-day descendant of the original Dr. Jekyll works for a ruthless multinational company. In the basement of his London townhouse, he discovers his antecedents famous potion. Unfortunately, it has a terrifying effect - it turns him into a nice person!
3 Bullets for Ringo
Ringo Carson has a tough life. First, he has a falling out with his best friend, Frank Sanders, after saving Jane, the girl he loves, from Mexican kidnappers in order to extort a ransom from her gunrunner father. Frank goes off to the Civil War. Ringo reconciles with his estranged mother who needs his fast gun to protect her land from greedy land-grabber Daniels. (amazon.co.uk)
Achtung! The Desert Tigers
Durng World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are whipping the local female population and torturing prisoners. The major organizes an escape attempt using the camp's nubile female doctor as a hostage. (imdb)
Anything for a Friend
Two 'friends', Jonas and Mark, who live by cheating and squandering their money in saloons meet a crazy old man who tells them that gold has been discovered in the Rocky Mountains. The whole town moves, with dreams of becoming rich, but they are bitterly disappointed when on their way home they are robbed by Mulieta and his vicious gang of outlaws. Jonathan and Mark are spurred into action and decide to fight Mulieta's gang and retrieve their gold. (spaghetti-western.net)
Black Gold Dossier
A diplomatic meeting between Western and Arab diplomats goes wrong, and a black gold dossier is firmly pushed across a desk. Against a background of hostages taken in an embassy, a covert operations agent, Benson, is given a mission in Paris. He is going into an Arab Emirate with a chosen group of operatives, and blow up an oil refinery. Getting in is easy, but getting out - well, that's another thing. (imdb)
Born to Kill
Mitchell arrives in a town where a ruthless land baron is trying to take control of the entire area, eventually deciding to take sides with townspeople. (spaghetti-western.net)
Brennus, Enemy of Rome
Brennus, Enemy of Rome (Brenno, il nemicodi Roma) is what it says it is. The loinclothed hero battles sinister forces that would destroy his home, his friends, and his honor. The action sequences are expertly handled, which is more than we can say for the English dubbing. The stars are Maciste flick veteran Gordon Mitchell, Ursula Davis, and Tony Kendall (aka Luciano Stella). (allrovi.com)
Caesar Against the Pirates
Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiration against him and takes refuge by the king of Bitinia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. Caught by the pirates he asks for help to get back to Rome. (imdb)
The Centurion
Protests break out in Corinth against Roman domination, injuring Caius Vinicius, a Roman centurion. He's rescued by Hebe -- daughter of the anti-Roman governor, Critolaus -- who's being unsuccessfully wooed by the governor's second-in-command, the villainous Diaeus. Smitten, Hebe sends the handsome Roman to recuperate at the home of Callicrates, a political moderate. Artemide, wife of Callicrates, also falls for Caius Vinicus but when he spurns her, she has him arrested and imprisoned. (imdb)
Cry of Death
A range war between cattlemen and farmers comes to a head with the arrival of a Deputy Marshal and "Mule" a famous gunfighter in the town of Houstonville, Texas. (spaghetti-western.net)
Day of Judgment
Ty Hardin stars as a Yankee soldier who seeks revenge on the six killers who murdered his wife & child and burned his home. He tracks down and kills each man one by one until he finds the leader of the gang. (imdb)
Diamond Connection
Starring Barbara Bouchet in this rare Turkish/Italian coproduction. A gang of professionals become embroiled in a case of mistaken identity whilst relentlessly pursuing the diamond connection. English with dutch subtitles. (ioffer.com)
Finders Killers
Donald O'Brien stars as an unlikely hero whom along with his brother Chris, seek revenge for the murder of their parents. They meet up with a crazy outlaw (Dean Stratford) who tells them about a fortune in gold. (spaghetti-western.net)
La schiava io ce l\
Comedy about the unhappy husband of a domineering modern woman, who becomes the hapless victim of an insatiable mistress and the happy (for a time) patron of an Amazon slave... (bfi)
Due magnum 38 per una città di carogne
Franco Palermo is an unsuccessful writer living in Sicily. His lover Silvia misteriously runs away and he decides to track her down. This marks the beginning of a tragic quest which will leave him a wrecked man. [Surf Film]
La croce dalle sette pietre
In Italy a man's jewelled cross is stolen by some thieves and he must try to get it back before the next full moon. Otherwise, without its protection, he will turn into a werewolf. Of course, he doesn't get it back in time and changes into this really weird looking wolf man... (buried.com)
Hero Called Allegria
Two brothers, Ray and Pot, exercise their bank robbing talents. They rob and get robbed in rapid succession. After acquiring a new partner (Steve) and accumulating a good haul, Ray is killed for the gold and Steve is captured by Lobo, a Mexican bandit. (spaghetti-western.net)
His Colt, Himself, His Revenge
An ex-sheriff sets out to find the bandits who beat and murdered his sister. (spaghetti-western.net)
Gli uccisori
A young man, accused of murder and theft, escapes to Venezuela. His fiancée and her brother join him, only to find he had the loot with him. But was he guilty? (imdb)
Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati
Story about two men out of a lunatic asylum and a beautiful girl who live in a 'ménage à trois'. (bfi)
Io non spezzo... rompo
Two policeman make endless blunders and eventually end up in prison for having brought the force into disrepute. (bfi)
Invasion 1700
In this costume drama, a 17th-century Polish colonel falls in love with a princess. Unfortunately the girl is already engaged to a Ukraine commander. The colonel does his best to convince her to break it off and take off with him, which leads to violent consequences. (allrovi.com)
John the Bastard
Horror filmmakers Armando Crispino (who directed) and Romano Scavolini co-wrote this spaghetti western version of the Casanova legend. John Richardson stars as John Tenerico, whose string of romantic conquests is interrupted by the arrival of his long-lost brother Francisco (Claudio Camaso) and his lovely wife Antonia (Martine Beswicke). (allrovi.com)
The Killer Likes Candy
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late. (imdb)
Sette volte sette
In this caper movie, a gang of prison inmates sneak out and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Lady Morgan\
After the tragic death of her boyfriend Pierre (Michel Forain), Susan Morgan (Barbara Nelli) reluctantly marries Sir Harold (Paul Muller), who, by trying to drive the woman into suicide, wants to become heir to the riches of his wife, along with the housekeeper Lilian (Erika Blanc) and the butler Roger (Gordon Mitchell). (screenarchives.com)
Let\
Nebraska Clay kills a gang of outlaws in self-defense but is imprisoned for further investigation of the crime. While in jail he meets an outlaw named "Crazy Person" and escapes with him when his gang carries out a jailbreak. (spaghetti-western.net)
Marco Polo
Marco Polo (1982) - TV Mini-Series
The life and experiences of the 13th-century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade. (imdb)
Il domestico
A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses. (imdb)
Thompson 1880
Ray, young and destitute, reaches Desert Spring, carrying a case on top of his mule. A gang headed by Brady uses apparently legal means to prevent anyone from trading and exploits all the town's possibilities for itself. The only one who dares to protest is Sheila, the daughter of a tradesman who has been ruined by Brady. She welcomes Ray, hoping to make him an ally. But the young man doesn't even known how to handle a gun. When Brady's men beat him up and humiliate him, Ray decides to stay. (spaghetti-western.net)
Le miniere del Kilimangiaro
An American college student in 1930s Africa searches for a lost diamond mine near Mt. Kilimanjaro. He must battle Nazis who are using the mine to finance their war plans, Chinese gangsters and murderous local tribesmen. (imdb)
Dort Hergele
One of many Turkey/Italy co-productions made in the 1970s (along the lines of THE LION MAN films). FOUR FOR ALL does not have any other of the big Turkish stuff in in that were popular in the 1970s; though
Commando Invasion
The leader of a group of American commandos has 5 days to kidnap a VC General to prove his innocence after all his men are killed in an abortive raid. (The Movie Database)
Quando i califfi avevano le corna...
Erotic drama set in the Arabian Peninsula.
From the Criminal Police Archives
Police and gangsters both battle to get hold of a microfilm that contains evidence about a major drug peddling operation. (imdb)
Seven Slaves Against Rome
Tribune Marcus Aulus, out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians, arrives to take charge of an aqueduct project on the hot, arid fringes of the Empire. Centurion Gaius, cruel and corrupt, resents being replaced by Marcus. He instigates a revolt by his slave-workers, then blames the situation on Marcus. During the revolt, five muscular slaves escape.
The Twilight Zone
The Skin Under the Claws
After a series of brutal murders, the police are on their toes, but they can not find a way to catch the sadistic murderer. A mad doctor experiments with ways to cheat death and confuse his pursuers with the help of a corpse with identical DNA to his own. His young female victims are raped and brutally murdered with a knife. In the victims' fingernails will find police traces of rotted human flesh.
Overdose
Michael uses his girlfriend Karen, a stewardess, to smuggle cocaine. (imdb)