Gordon Sterne
Biography
Gordon Sterne, born in Essen, was a German-born actor who left Germany in 1941 and later settled in Windsor, Ontario. He trained at the Dramatic Workshop in New York, where Erwin Piscator was his teacher, and began acting in America on radio and television, in summer stock and off-Broadway. During the 1940s he was a leading man in New Jersey stage productions. In the early 1950s he appeared as Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand at the Arena Stage in Washington and as Joseph K in The Trial at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York. He moved to Britain in 1956 and spent more than fifty years there working in theater, television and film. His German and French helped him tour Germany in Drop Dead Darling and perform with the English Theatre in Vienna. He died in 2017.
94years old at death
- Born Essen
- Died
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 44 years1960 to 2004
Every film, newest first
- 2004Laws of AttractionIMDb rating 5.9
- 1981An American Werewolf in LondonIMDb rating 7.5
- 1969The Assassination BureauIMDb rating 6.4
- 1961Taste of FearIMDb rating 7.4
- 1960The MillionairessIMDb rating 5.4
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Early training
In 1945 Sterne went to New York, where he studied and earned his degree at the Dramatic Workshop, taught by its founder Erwin Piscator. Rod Steiger, Bea Arthur, Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis and Harry Belafonte were there at the same time.
Languages
Sterne could speak German and French, and this allowed him to act in Drop Dead Darling while it toured Germany, and also to work for a time with the English Theatre in Vienna.
A change of course
Sterne attended the University of Western Ontario, where he studied economics. In 1944 he joined the Canadian Army and served in the infantry as a sergeant.
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