Richard Gordon (film producer)

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Richard Gordon (31 December 1925- ) is a British-born producer and financier of horror films. He moved to New York in the 1940s and set up his own company Gordon Films distributing imported films in the US. He produced two vehicles for Boris Karloff, and later worked with Antony Balch on two exploitation films. His final two films to date are The Cat and the Canary (1979) and Inseminoid (1981). Joined by writer Tom Weaver, he can be heard on the DVD commentary tracks of seven of his movies: "The Haunted Strangler," "Fiend Without a Face," "First Man Into Space," "Corridors of Blood," "Devil Doll," "Secrets of Sex" and "The Cat and the Canary."