Gordon Douglas

born: 15 December 1907 New York City, New York, United States of America

died: 29 September 1993 Los Angeles, California, United States of America (cancer, age 85)

Young American director, gag writer and occasional bit-part actor. During the filming of Laurel & Hardy's "Babes In Toyland", where he worked as an assistant director, he slid 15 feet from the top of the Old Woman's Shoe and tore ligaments in his left leg. Gordon's father, Oscar Hamilton "Hap" Brickner (1878-1959), was a food and drug broker/general manager born in Albany, New York to German immigrants. His mother, Minna S. (Dias) Brickner (1881-1981 - she lived to age 100!), was born in Baltimore, Maryland to English parents from Jamaica (then part of the British West Indies). Oscar and Minna married on 7 April 1903 in Baltimore. Gordon's older brother, Roy Brickner (b. LeRoy Dias Brickner, 1904-1984), also worked in the film industry as an editor for MGM, including on some of the later MGM-produced "Our Gang" entries of the series Gordon once regularly directed, and as an advertising writer.

Real name: Gordon Brickner Height: 5'9½"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1930 All Teed Up Spectator 1930 Fast Work Office worker/Nightclub patron 1930 Teacher's Pet Second caterer 1930 Bigger And Better Man exiting elevator 1930 Looser Than Loose Nightclub patron 1930 Una Cana Al Aire  Nightclub patron 1930 High C's Soldier 1931 Thundering Tenors Waiter 1931 Chickens Come Home Passerby outside apartment 1931 La Señorita De Chicago  Nightclub patron 1931 Love Fever Thelma's chauffeur 1931 Rough Seas Officer 1931 Air-Tight Onlooker in crowd 1931 Let's Do Things Nightclub patron 1931 Pardon Us Typist 1931 Los Presidiarios Typist 1931 The Panic Is On Tenant leaving with Mr. Cooke 1931 Big Ears Orderly 1931 Come Clean Hotel desk clerk 1931 Skip The Maloo! Saluting officer 1931 The Pajama Party Party guest 1931 One Good Turn A community player 1931 The Kick-Off! [unidentified character] 1931 Beau Hunks Ford Arid legionnaire 1931 On The Loose Fun house worker 1932 Love Pains Rowdy singer 1932 The Knockout Slug Mulligan, Sophomore champ 1932 You're Telling Me Eddie Morgan 1932 Too Many Women Gordon 1932 Birthday Blues Delivery boy 1933 Air Fright Pilot 1934 The Cracked Ice Man Mr. Douglas 1934 Next Week-End Nightclub patron ▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS 1938 The Little Ranger Theater usher Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M53V-22J (1910 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9R1-72L (1915 NY State Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJP5-BQ9 (1920 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K91N-SRV (1925 NY State Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCVC-C84 (1930 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8V4-MWF (1938 marriage) https://www.fold3.com/document/631666357/ (WWII draft reg. card) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K86S-QM6 (1952 marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPD4-4L9 (CA Death Index) http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/archive/articles/2011-01-davidson/davidson-5.html ("Max Davidson -- Blow By Blow" [Part 5], Richard W. Bann) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/20334157/ (New York Times, 02 Aug 1902) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/372447284/ (Baltimore Sun, 02 Aug 1902) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/372617144/ (Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar 1903) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/372631804/ (Baltimore Sun, 07 Apr 1903) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85355049 (father Oscar "Hap" Brickner at Find a Grave) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85355048 (mother Minna Dias Brickner at Find a Grave) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8JF-DGP (brother Roy's marriage, 1934 -- Gordon [Douglas] Brickner as witness) Jesse Brisson (research; identification in All Teed Up, Looser Than Loose, Fast Work, Thundering Tenors, Una Cana Al Aire, The Panic Is On, Air Fright, Air-Tight, Skip The Maloo!, Next Week-End, The Pajama Party, High C's, Rough Seas) (The identification of Gordon Douglas in Bigger And Better is my own opinion, backed-up by Richard W. Bann) This page was last updated on: 15 April 2025