Gordon Gebert

Gordon Alan Gebert II was the only child of Gordon Alan Gebert Sr. and Violette Gebert, his father being a salesman for a trailer company and later managing sales of truck and bus fleets for the Ford Motor Co. in Iowa. In 1946, he was chosen to play a boy in a play at Drake University and received acting lessons through the theatre. In 1948, he, along with his parents, moved to Los Angeles and started at Pasadena Playhouse in a production of 'Life With Father', opposite Victor Jory.