As a screenwriter, he has written films including Wyatt Earp, Passenger 57, Murder in the First, and The Hurricane, and developed the story for Rambo: Last Blood.
[1] He has been the producer, screenwriter and story editor for over 200 hours of television, including Highway to Heaven, Highlander, and Soldier of Fortune, Inc.[2] He has also written stage adaptations of Terms of Endearment and Rain Man,[3][4] and novels based on his screenplays as well as his own experiences fighting in the Gaza War.
[5][6] After high school he returned to Southern California and studied at East LA Junior College for a year, before transferring to UCLA as a film and television major.
[7] Fearing the Mafia, due to the fallout from trying to make Potluck, Gordon fled to Israel, where he served in the Israeli Army.
While there, he wrote the screenplay for Train Ride to Hollywood, the 1975 pop musical starring the Kansas City R&B band Bloodstone, though he would return briefly to the United States to rewrite it prior to filming.
Starring Tovah Feldshuh, it is the true story of Irena Gut, who hid twelve Jews in a cellar during World War II.
[11] His stage adaptation of Barry Morrow's Rain Man premiered at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End in 2009, and was subsequently performed in Prague (Czech Republic), Stuttgart (Germany), Brussels (Belgium) and Utrecht (The Netherlands).
The institute is named for his eldest son, Zaki Gordon, who died in a traffic accident in 1998 at the age of 22 years.
[15] Gordon was also a close friend of Tim Buckley, collaborating with him on an unfilmed movie script called "Fully Air-conditioned Inside.