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Bert I. Gordon died on March 8, 2023 at the age of 100.\u00a0 Mr. Gordon was a writer, director, producer, editor, special effects artist… perhaps it would be best to simply say, he was a filmmaker.<\/p>\n
Bert I. Gordon had an interest in making films from an early age.\u00a0 He received a 16mm camera for his thirteenth birthday and began making home\/fan movie.\u00a0 Mr. Gordon served in the air force during World War II.\u00a0 After the war he began making television commercials and editing films for television.<\/p>\n
In 1955, Mr. Gordon co-wrote and directed his first feature film, King Dinosaur.<\/em>\u00a0 He would go on to direct (and often serve as producer, special effects artist, writer\/co-writer) on 23 additional films throughout his career.\u00a0 Most of Mr. Gordon’s films were in the horror or science fiction genres.\u00a0 Because his initials were BIG and many of his films dealt with giant monsters, Bert I. Gordon was nicknamed Mr. BIG.<\/p>\n Some of Bert I. Gordon’s best known films include: The Cyclops, The Amazing Colossal Man, Attack of the Puppet People, War of the Colossal Beast, The Spider, Village of the Giants, The Food of the Gods<\/em> and The Empire of the Ants.<\/em><\/p>\n Bert I. Gordon’s films were and still are a staple of horror hosts and horror movie fans everywhere.\u00a0 My favorite of his films is The Amazing Colossal Man<\/em>. If you’re a regular viewer of Svengoolie on MeTV, you’ll see several of Mr. Gordon’s films each year.\u00a0 What director wouldn’t love to have his movies in regular rotation?\u00a0 What an honor that these low budget films still attract huge audiences.<\/p>\n Our thoughts and prayers go out to Bert I. Gordon’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bert I. Gordon died on March 8, 2023 at the age of 100.\u00a0 Mr. Gordon was a writer, director, producer,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32274,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions\/32274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}