Gordon Mitchell, a bodybuilder who joined entertainer Mae West’s buffed all-male chorus line in the mid-1950s and went on to make about 200 B-movies, excelling in the “sword and sandal” genre, has ...

He was born Charles Allen Pendleton on July 29 1923 at Denver, Colorado. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother moved the family to Inglewood, California, where he developed an ...

Gordon Mitchell was born "Charles Pendleton" in Colorado and served his country in both World War II and the Korean War (during which he was briefly a POW). Afterward he worked as a teacher in inner ...

Bodybuilder and actor Gordon Mitchell, who appeared in many sword-and-sandal epics as well as Federico Fellini’s “Satyricon,” died Sept. 20 in Marina del Rey, Calif. He was 80. Born Charles Pendleton, ...