Gordon Sterne
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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.
Como Actor/Actriz
Doctor Who
Heldorf
The Saint
Vopos
Los Tudor
Bishop Tunstall
Jeeves and Wooster
Diner
UFO
German Delegate
The Protectors
Barman
The New Avengers
Professor Vasil
The Prisoner
Bystander
Hancock's Half Hour
Highlander: El Inmortal
Dr Willis Kenderly
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Ford
Espionage
Aide to US Ambassador
Un Hombre Lobo Americano En Londres
Mr. Kessler
Out of This World
Journalist
Melissa
Davy Crockett
Armchair Theatre
Harry
Taste of Fear
Policeman (uncredited)
Las leyes de atracción
Judge Baker
The Razor's Edge
Doctor
The Assassination Bureau
Corporal
The Millionairess
Second Secretary
Libel
Maddox
The Adding Machine
Yard guard
John and Yoko: A Love Story
New York Critic
Merlin
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
Heldorf
Four Play
Actor in Color of My Life
The Vulture
Edward Stroud
The Great Van Robbery
Robledo
Battle of the V-1
Margraaf