 Born February 20, 1906, as Charles T. Aldrich Jr. in New York City, Gale Gordon was the son of British actress Gloria Gordon and her vaudevillian husband Charles Aldrich. Gordon's first big radio break came in the reoccurring role of Mayor Latrivia on Fibromagean Mali, before playing Rumson Bullard on the show's successful spin-off The Great Gildersleeve. Gordon and his character of Mayor Latrivia briefly left the show in December of 1942, both had enlisted in World War II. Gordon was the first actor to play the role of Flash Gordon in the 1935 radio series The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. Gordon defined the role of pompous principal Osgood Conklin in the 1948 radio series Our Miss Brooks, starting with the second episode of the radio series. He would carry the role to television when the show moved there in 1952. In 1950, Gordon played John Granby in the radio series Granby's Green Acres. This show would become the basis for the 1960 television series Green Acres. In the interim, Gordon turned up as Rudolph Attenbury on My Favorite Husband, which starred Lucille Ball. This show was a precursor to I Love Lucy. Now, Gordon and Ball previously worked together on The Wonder Show, starring Jack Haley from 1938 to 1939. The two had a long-term friendship as well as a reoccurring professional partnership. Gordon also had a reoccurring role as fictitious Rexall drug sponsor representative Mr. Scott on yet another radio hit, the Phil Harris Alice Fay show, staying with the role while Rexall sponsored the show. He also played the lead in the 1946 summer replacement series, The Casebook of Gregory Hood, until the series was extended and he returned to the Great Gilder Sleeve. With his first film credit in the 1926 movie The Temptress, Gordon would continue acting until 1991, with two appearances on the sitcom High Honey I'm Home and one on the show The New Lassie. Apart from acting, Gordon was an author of two children's books and he wrote two one-act plays. He was an artist and he had a 150-acre ranch in Borrego Springs, California. He did much of his own construction on the ranch house and built much of his own furniture. Gordon married Virginia Curley in 1937 and the two remained together nearly sixty years until her passing in May of 1995. He had no children. One month later, Gordon would pass away from lung cancer on June 30, 1995 in Escondido, California. He was eighty-nine. For Old Time Radio Researchers, I'm your announcer Patrick Andre. Thank you for listening.