Lawrence Gordon
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Lawrence Gordon is Flash's lost father. A physics professor at the university, Lawrence also participated in a secret project, the Portage Initiative, with a young colleague, Hans Zarkov.
The Portage Initiative attempted to open a "rift" between in space between our world and another. Lawrence succeeded in creating a rift in his laboratory, but was sucked through onto the planet Mongo, and was unable to return. Lawrence's wife Norah and son Flash were told that he'd died in a fire.
In the pilot episode of Flash Gordon, scientists on Mongo create their own rift, and send a probe through to Earth. Flash finds his father's driver's license hidden inside one of the probes, and realizes that his father may still be alive on the other side of the rift. Determined to find his father, he finds a way through. At the end of the first episode, the final shot is of a man, presumably Lawrence, hooked up to a machine on Mongo with wires coming out of his head.
Sci Fi Channel Appearances
Serial
In the Flash Gordon serial, Professor Gordon is a distinguished scientist, known around the world. He works in an observatory with his nervous colleague, Professor Hensley. Gordon appears in "The Planet of Peril", and receives telegrams informing him of the world's reaction to the upcoming collision with the planet Mongo. He returns to the story in "Til Death", as Dr. Zarkov makes radio contact with Earth.
Professor Gordon is a creation of the 1936 serial. In the earlier versions of the story -- the original comic strip and the radio serial -- Flash has no known family.
Portrayed by
- Richard Tucker: Flash Gordon (1936)
- Bruce Dawson: Flash Gordon (2007)
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