
Gordon Sterne
Known for ActingBorn 1923-01-16Died 2017-04-04Essen, Germany
Gordon Sterne was a German-born English actor with a prolific career spanning over five decades in film, television, and theater. He is perhaps most widely recognized for his role as Mr. Kessler in the horror-comedy classic An American Werewolf in London (1981), where his character famously meets a gruesome end while watching The Muppet Show in a dream sequence. He left his native Nazi-dominated birth country in 1941 and became a native of Windsor, Ontario with a father who worked in the tobacco business and mother, who was supportive of his theatre aspirations. Sterne studied economics at the University of Western Ontario before volunteering for the Canadian Army in 1944, serving in the infantry as a sergeant. Heading to New York in 1945, he trained and graduated from the Dramatic Workshop under the tutelage of its founder Erwin Piscator, at the same time as Rod Steiger, Bea Arthur, Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis and Harry Belafonte. Sterne then began his acting career in America, working on radio and TV, in summer stock and off-Broadway. After a career on stage, playing the leading man in various plays in New Jersey during the 1940s, as well as Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand at Washington's Arena Stage and Joseph K in The Trial at New York's Provincetown Playhouse during the early 1950s, Sterne moved to Britain in 1956 where he had over 50 years working in theatre, TV and film. Being able to speak German (and French) enabled Sterne to perform in Drop Dead Darling on tour in Germany as well as a spell with the English Theatre in Vienna.Read more
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Espionage
1963 · Series
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Screaming Blue Murder
2006 · Movie
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Jeeves and Wooster
1990 · Series
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The Tudors
2007 · Series
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Doctor Who
1963 · Series
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UFO
1970 · Series
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The Prisoner
1967 · Series
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An American Werewolf in London
1981 · Movie
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The Saint
1962 · Series
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Hancock's Half Hour
1956 · Series
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Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970 · Movie
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Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · Series
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The New Avengers
1976 · Series
Rating Notman
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1982 · Movie
Second Verdict
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Second Verdict
1976 · Series
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Highlander
1986 · Movie
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Melissa
1997 · Series
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John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985 · Movie
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Taste of Fear
1961 · Movie
The Fur Collar
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The Fur Collar
1962 · Movie
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The Child and the Killer
1959 · Movie
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The Assassination Bureau
1969 · Movie
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Libel
1959 · Movie
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The Adding Machine
1969 · Movie
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The Razor's Edge
1984 · Movie
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Merlin
1992 · Movie
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Laws of Attraction
2004 · Movie
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The Protectors
1972 · Series
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Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
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Out of This World
1962 · Series
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The Millionairess
1960 · Movie
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The Great Van Robbery
1959 · Movie
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1958 · Movie
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The Vulture
1966 · Movie
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Four Play
2001 · Movie
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Sex Play
1974 · Movie
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A Promise of Bed
1969 · Movie

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1972 · Movie