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 ...

The videotape is wobbly and faded, but the on-screen action still pulsates with savage Greco-Roman lust. “Watch what happens when she touches my pecs,” says Gordon Mitchell, pointing to the small TV ...

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 ...

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, ...