Acting

Pete Gordon

Born — Died

1887-04-20 — 1943-05-25

Place of birth

Naples, Campania, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Pete Gordon was born Pietro Armandi on April 22, 1887 in Naples, Italy. He was an actor, known for Lady of Burlesque (1943), Sunset Murder Case (1938) and Youth and Adventure (1925). He died on May 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 3 titles

1920s · 11 titles

Men O' War poster
6.8

Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a boat to cruise on a lake. They soon tangle with other boaters and everyone ends up in the water.

Men O' War

1929

A Pair of Tights poster
7.8

Two girls are invited by one of the girls boyfriend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get the ice cream even close to the car where the rest is waiting.

A Pair of Tights

1929

Golf poster
6.4

Comedy on the golf links.

Golf

1922

The Bakery poster
4.7

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.

The Bakery

1921

Youth and Adventure poster
9.0

Reggie Dillingham, a spendthrift socialite, is challenged by his lawyer to support himself for six months; Reggie finds a job as a newspaper editor to keep quiet about a compromising photo of a powerful politician, but soon discovers his boss is involved in bootlegging and uses the newspaper to expose him, despite threats, with the help of his loyal staff, leading to the boss's arrest and Reggie's financial windfall.

Youth and Adventure

1925

Lightning Love poster
6.4

The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.

Lightning Love

1923

The Rent Collector poster
6.7

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

The Rent Collector

1921

The Bell Hop poster
6.8

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.

The Bell Hop

1921

The Show poster
7.0

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.

The Show

1922

School Days poster
6.8

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

School Days

1920

No artwork available
10.0

Eddie and his pal, after repeatedly standing off the landlady, find the door of their room barricaded and escape cut off. Eddie endeavors to make his escape across a wire to a telegraph pole, but the wire breaks and he swings back into the room, breaking the barricade from the door. They make their getaway and Eddie sneaks into the garage and gets his cab, as his pal is fired for being late. The latter appeals to a rival company for a job promising to take all the business from his late pal. It is then a chase between them for customers with all sorts of devices resorted to to secure business.

A Taxi War

1925