''Three X Gordon'' is a 1918 American silent

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directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring

J. Warren Kerrigan George Jack Warren Kerrigan (July 25, 1879 – June 9, 1947) was an American silent film actor and film director. Controversy In May 1917, Kerrigan was nearing the end of a four-month-long personal appearance publicity tour that had taken him ac ...

, Lois Wilson and Charles K. French.

Cast

as Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon * Lois Wilson as Dorrie Webster * Charles K. French as Jim Gordon *

Gordon Sackville Gordon Sackville (born 1880 - August 6, 1926) was a film actor. Earlier in his career he appeared on stage. He was part of several Hobart Bosworth productions. He was in '' The Best Man Wins'', one of the first Hollywood films. Sackville was born ...

as Mr. Webster * John Gilbert as Archie *

Jay Belasco Jay Belasco (January 11, 1888 May 1, 1949), born Reginald James Belasco, was an American film actor whose career mostly involved silent film. Belasco was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was a cousin of actors Walter Belasco and David Belasco. He ...

as Walter *

Leatrice Joy Leatrice Joy (born Leatrice Johanna Zeidler; November 7, 1893 – May 13, 1985) was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era. Early life Joy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to dentist Edward Joseph Zeidler. She at ...

as Farmer's Daughter *

Walter Perry Walter Laing MacDonald Perry, Baron Perry of Walton (16 June 1921 – 17 July 2003) was a Scottish academic. He was the first Vice Chancellor of the Open University. Life Perry was born in Dundee, son of Flora and Fletcher Perry, and educate ...

as Farmer Muldoon * Don Bailey as Josiah Higgins *

Stanhope Wheatcroft Stanhope Nelson Wheatcroft (May 11, 1888 – February 13, 1966) was an American actor of the stage and screen who was primarily active during Hollywood's silent era. Biography Stanhope was born in New York City in 1888 to Nelson Wheatcroft a ...

as Thomas Jefferson Higgins

Production

Filming started in August 1918 at the former Willis-Inglis Studio in Hollywood until late September the same year.

Preservation

With no prints of ''Three X Gordon'' located in any film archives, it is considered a

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.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Three X Gordon''
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References

Bibliography

* Golden, Eve. ''John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars''. University Press of Kentucky, 2013.

External links

* 1918 films 1918 comedy films 1918 lost films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films American black-and-white films American silent feature films Films directed by Ernest C. Warde Films distributed by W. W. Hodkinson Corporation Films shot in Los Angeles Lost American comedy films Silent American comedy films {{1910s-US-film-stub