Favorite Gordon?

[Chris Casino]

Okay, folks, we all know three actors played Gordon Robinson on Sesame Street, Matt Robinson, Hal Miller, and Roscoe Orman, the latter being the one I grew up with being a child of the 80s era of the show. I don't count the fellow from the pilot as I did not care much for him and I don't even know who he is. But I have gotten to see every actor who played Gordon thanks to the Old School sets. Here is my take on them:

I know from Michael Davis' book Matt Robinson was not happy with all the attention he got from playing Gordon but he deserved every bit of it as he was the best actor to play the part.

Hal Miller just didn't do it for me.

Roscoe Orman, being of course the Gordon I'd always known, is excellent at the role and God bless him for being withe the show as long as he has, but I just feel, and I shouldn't feel this way because he was not the Gordon I grew up with, that Matt Robinson was the best.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Love Matt Robinson aka Gorgon 1, but I'm going to go with Roscoe Orman because he's the Gordon I know best.

 

[mikebennidict]

Okay, folks, we all know three actors played Gordon Robinson on Sesame Street, Matt Robinson, Hal Miller, and Roscoe Orman, the latter being the one I grew up with being a child of the 80s era of the show. I don't count the fellow from the pilot as I did not care much for him and I don't even know who he is. But I have gotten to see every actor who played Gordon thanks to the Old School sets. Here is my take on them:

I know from Michael Davis' book Matt Robinson was not happy with all the attention he got from playing Gordon but he deserved every bit of it as he was the best actor to play the part.

That's to bad since he was with SS for 3 years.

Guess he just remained till his contract expired.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I think Matt Robinson was a great role model and contributed so much to the beginnings of Sesame Street (though his version of Gordon occasionally got a bit too chauvanistic for my taste, hehe).

I guess I'll mainly go with Roscoe Orman since I grew up with him and always liked his combination of strength and sensitivity as a man. I remember him singing about how he'd been afraid of the dark as a child, and I was surprised that even a grown up man could be afraid sometimes.

 

[Drtooth]

Matt was great for what he was and all, but I really think the best Gordon was Roscoe. Not because he was Grodon the longest, not because he was the one I grew up with... he REALLY got into the spirit of the Muppets in a way that Matt and Hal didn't. I think the best SS human cast members are the ones that get their hands dirty, dress up in funny costumes, act foolish, all for the sake of fun. And Roscoe not only did it, he rose above it to become one of the best human cast members there was.

Who else could be Lovely Magic Gordon guy and still play the role straight faced? Who else could have been trash Gordon and looked heroic and silly at the same time? And yet, he still remained a parent figure for the characters. Now that's great acting.

 

[mikebennidict]

What was interesting about Matt was he wasn't an actor but a TV producer and it's kind of an interesting move on his part because I think he originally planned to be a producer and he either volenteered so the writers asked him if he could play the role of Gordon.

Of course what's more interesting is this was not actually his first time on camera because I read somewhere he did a local children's show in his native Philidelphia.