- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 16, 1923
- Place of Birth
- Essen, Germany
- Died
- April 4, 2017
Gordon Sterne
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, Wa…
Filmography
tvThe Tudors
2007 · Bishop Tunstall
movieScreaming Blue Murder
2006 · Jack Rammer
movieLaws of Attraction
2004 · Judge Baker
movieFour Play
2001 · Actor in Color of My Life
tvMelissa
1997 · Davy Crockett
movieMerlin
1992
tvJeeves and Wooster
1990 · Diner
movieHighlander
1986 · Dr Willis Kenderly
movieJohn and Yoko: A Love Story
1985 · New York Critic
movieThe Razor's Edge
1984 · Doctor
tvReilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · Ford
Rating Notman
movieRating Notman
1982
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982 · Louis Lefkowitz
movieAn American Werewolf in London
1981 · Mr. Kessler
tvThe New Avengers
1976 · Professor Vasil
Second Verdict
tvSecond Verdict
1976 · Dr Dolan
movieSex Play
1974 · Randolph O'Hara
movieThe Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972 · Grocer
tvThe Protectors
1972 · Barman
tvUFO
1970 · German Delegate, Helmsman Ellis
movieDoctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970 · Heldorf
movieA Promise of Bed
1969 · Producer
movieThe Adding Machine
1969 · Yard guard
movieThe Assassination Bureau
1969 · Corporal
tvThe Prisoner
1967 · Bystander
movieThe Vulture
1966 · Edward Stroud
tvDoctor Who
1963 · Heldorf
tvEspionage
1963 · Aide to US Ambassador
The Fur Collar
movieThe Fur Collar
1962 · Duclos
tvThe Saint
1962 · Vopos, Fritz Kapel
tvOut of This World
1962 · Journalist
movieTaste of Fear
1961 · Policeman (uncredited)
movieThe Millionairess
1960 · Second Secretary
movieLibel
1959 · Maddox
movieThe Child and the Killer
1959 · Sergeant
movieThe Great Van Robbery
1959 · Robledo
movieBattle of the V-1
1958 · Margraaf
tvArmchair Theatre
1956 · Harry
tvHancock's Half Hour
1956