Gordon Cunningham (commonly referred to as Mr. C) is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Hollyoaks.

[2] Latham joined the cast in January 1996 and he was originally expected to appear in six episodes, where his character would come in and complain about his daughter Dawn Cunningham's (Lisa Williamson) behaviour.

"[3] In 2004, Latham decided to leave the show to spend more time with his family and the character of Gordon received "a tragic exit" when he was killed off following a car crash.

I didn't want Mr C to just wave goodbye and head off in the back of a taxi, because he deserved a dramatic exit with a devastating aftermath - and that's what he got.

"[4] Latham thought Gordon's "worst story line" was his wife Helen Cunningham's (Kathryn George) affair with Tony Hutchinson (Nick Pickard).

[5] Gordon comforts his daughter Dawn when she struggles to fend off the advances of her mother's new boyfriend, Terry Williams.

Gordon soon builds up a witty repartee with Tony Hutchinson, when he becomes landlord of Got it Taped, and finds himself in various scrapes in his desperate attempts to keep Max and Cindy on the straight and narrow.

However, things get bad for Gordon as he discover that Cindy was pregnant, and loses Dawn to leukaemia, and also is saddened when Jude runs off the next year after getting herself in trouble with the police.

With the Richardson family comes considerable angst, culminating in Lewis's suicide, yet Gordon proves himself as the rock to his wife and together they have a son called Tom.