After a film test, Gordon starred as Greta Garbo's leading man in Romance (1930).

"[2] An automobile accident that injured Gordon as he was to have begun shooting almost resulted in his being replaced.

[citation needed] Dance noted that Gordon's film career largely consisted of small and/or uncredited roles.

[1] In the 1980s, Gordon donated a horse sculpture he had owned and never authenticated to the Mobile Museum of Art.

[3] Gordon also appeared on such television programs as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Perry Mason, Playhouse 90, The Real McCoys, The Red Skelton Show, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Petticoat Junction.