Gordon, Roy W.

Roy Gordon (15 January 1896- 12 October 1978) was an American character actor. He was elected to The Lambs in 1918.

He was born in Salt Lake, Utah. He moved to New York City as a young man.

American actor and drama coach Roy Gordon made his first film appearance in 1938. A bit player for most of his Hollywood career, Gordon was at his best as corporate-executive types. He also played many a college dean, banker and military officer. Late Late Show habitues will remember Roy Gordon for his poignant cameo as doomed passenger Isidore Straus in Titanic (1953).