Personal Info
Gordon Sterne
Acting
Biography
Gordon Sterne was a German-born English actor with a prolific career spanning over five decades in film, television, and theater. He is perhaps most widely recognized for his role as Mr. Kessler in the horror-comedy classic An American Werewolf in London (1981), where his character famously meets a gruesome end while watching The Muppet Show in a dream sequence.
He left his native Nazi-dominated birth country in 1941 and became a native of Windsor, Ontario with a father who worked in the tobacco business and mother, who was supportive of his theatre aspirations. Sterne studied economics at th…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Screaming Blue Murder
as Jack Rammer
Laws of Attraction
as Judge Baker
Four Play
as Actor in Color of My Life
Merlin
Highlander
as Dr Willis Kenderly
The Razor's Edge
as Doctor
Rating Notman
An American Werewolf in London
as Mr. Kessler
Sex Play
as Randolph O'Hara
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
as Grocer
TV Shows
The Tudors
as Bishop Tunstall · 2 ep.
Melissa
as Davy Crockett · 1 ep.
Jeeves and Wooster
as Diner · 1 ep.
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Ford · 1 ep.
The New Avengers
as Professor Vasil · 1 ep.
Second Verdict
as Dr Dolan · 1 ep.
The Protectors
as Barman · 1 ep.
UFO
as Helmsman Ellis · 1 ep.
The Prisoner
as Bystander · 1 ep.
Doctor Who
as Heldorf · 1 ep.