Anthony Gordon (died 26 March 2006) was an actor who played a Regula I steward in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. As a background performer, he was not credited for his role. His costume was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]
Gordon appeared in about three dozen television and film productions from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, usually playing bit parts like maitre'd's, doctors, and servants, occasionally uncredited. He was married to background actress Niggy Overman, the couple had two children, Anthony Overman, Jr. and actress Ion Overman.
He appeared in Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer's 1979 science fiction film Time After Time, which starred Malcolm McDowell and David Warner and featured Clement von Franckenstein, and played Laurence Olivier in the 1980 television biopic Marilyn: The Untold Story, starring Catherine Hicks in the titular role and featuring Brad Blaisdell.
His television work includes episode of Quincy M.E. (starring Garry Walberg, with Robert Ito, Ian Abercrombie, and Warren Munson), The Fall Guy (with Robert Phillips and John Winston), Tales of the Gold Monkey (starring Stephen Collins, with Kathryn Leigh Scott, James Avery, and Paddi Edwards), Hart to Hart (with David Armstrong and Robert Hitchcock), Moonlighting (with Rick Fitts), The Love Boat (with Ken Olandt and Joel Marston), Dynasty (starring Joan Collins and Lee Bergere, with Conroy Gedeon, Billy Campbell, Dave Armstrong, and Robert Buckingham), L.A. Law (starring Corbin Bernsen, with Stanley Kamel, Robert Costanzo, Ian Abercrombie, Richard McGonagle, and Jeff Cadiente), The Colbys (starring Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Joseph Campanella, and Ricardo Montalban, with Nana Visitor, Bruce Gray, Kavi Raz, Susan French, Robert Hitchcock, and Buzz Barbee), Cheers (starring Kelsey Grammer, with Josh Clark, Lee Allen, George Sasaki, Suzanne Lodge, Ilona Wilson, Buzz Barbee, and Robert Buckingham), Falcon Crest (with Richard Herd, Kenneth Tobey, Whit Bissell, Liam Sullivan, Bill Erwin, Kate Vernon, Jonathan Frakes, Christopher Held, Bruce French, Rosalind Chao, Momo Yashima, John Hugh McKnight, and Jeff Cadiente), Columbo (with William Lucking and Karl Wiedergott), Murder, She Wrote (with Len Cariou, Rosie Malek-Yonan, Nick Dimitri, George Sasaki, Robert Buckingham, and Suzanne Lodge, directed by Vincent McEveety and Alexander Singer), and Diagnosis Murder (with Scarlett Pomers and John Cirigliano, directed by Nancy Malone).
Gordon can also be seen in films like Under the Rainbow (1981, with Jerry Maren), Hard to Kill (1990, with William Sadler, Branscombe Richmond, Philip Weyland, and Jeff Imada), Pretty Woman (1990, with Jason Alexander, Elinor Donahue, Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Larry A. Hankin, and Norman Large), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, starring Zach Galligan, with Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, John Glover, Keye Luke, Kenneth Tobey, Raymond Cruz, Henry Gibson, John Hugh McKnight, Gary Morgan, Richard Sarstedt, Joel Brooks, George Sasaki, Jerry Goldsmith, and the voices of Frank Welker and Kirk Randolph Thatcher), Ghost (1990, starring Whoopi Goldberg, with Vincent Schiavelli and Stephen Root), and Barton Fink (1991, with Max Grodénchik and Jana Marie Hupp).