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Gordon Gekko is a composite character in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, [2] both directed by Oliver Stone. [3] Gekko was portrayed in both films by actor Michael Douglas , who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the first film. [ 4 ]
Michael Douglas reprises his role as Gordon Gekko, which won him an Academy Award after the original film. Gekko has recently been released from prison and, after a failed attempt to warn business leaders of the imminent economic downturn, he decides to try to rebuild a relationship with his estranged daughter Winnie. [5]
Wall Street is a 1987 American crime drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen.The film tells the story of Bud Fox (C. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.
Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall Street titan-turned-convict who served as the partial inspiration for the 1987 Oliver Stone film "Wall Street," has died at the age of 87.
An investor who was one of the inspirations for the corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the movie 'Wall Street,' made a surprise presidential endorsement.
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The Pyrates (1983), a tongue-in-cheek novel incorporating all the possible buccaneer film plots into one. Black Ajax (1997), a novel about Tom Molineaux, a 19th-century black prizefighter in England. (As in Mr American, this novel is also connected to the Flashman series—in this case Sir Harry Flashman's father plays a minor role.)
Mildred Gordon was a teacher and an editor for Arizona Highways magazine. She worked for United Press and wrote The Little Man Who Wasn't There (1946). [3] Mildred can be heard as a contestant on the 21st March 1951 edition of You Bet Your Life. After Mildred's death in 1979, Gordon married Mary Dorr (1918–2004) on March 16, 1980.