Bio
Barry Gordon is an American actor, voice artist and radio disc jockey. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1988 to 1995.
Gordon began his professional life at the age of three as a child singer and actor. At six, he recorded Nuttin' for Christmas, still listed as one of the top 10 best-selling Christmas records of all time.
When he was 13, his Broadway debut in Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns earned him a Tony nomination for the role of Nick, a role he reprised in the successful film version.
He became a fixture as a character actor in feature films and television, most prominently as a co-star in the hit series Fish and playing opposite Carroll O'Connor as the lawyer Rabinowitz in Archie Bunker's Place.
His voice has been heard for decades as the Nestle Quik Bunny and as Donatello in the original animated series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
He also had a recurring role as the Rabbi in Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Outside of show business, his interests moved into law and politics. In his mid-thirties, he returned to school, graduated summa cum laude as a political science major from California State University, Los Angeles, and went on to Loyola Law School, receiving his J.D. in 1991.
Putting his love of show business and law together, he became active in the Screen Actors Guild, and became the longest-serving President in its history, holding the office for seven years (one year longer than either Charlton Heston or Ronald Reagan).
In 1998, he was the Democratic nominee for Congress and came within three points of beating the popular Republican incumbent, Rep. James Rogan, who went on to become one of the House's impeachment managers and subsequently lost his seat.