Richard Tucker

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Richard Tucker (1884-1942) played the distinguished astronomer Professor Gordon in the 1936 Flash Gordon serial.

Tucker performed in over 200 films and serials in his thirty-year career, including No Cooking Allowed (1911), Vanity Fair (1915), Don't Neglect Your Wife (1921), Is Divorce a Failure? (1923), The World Gone Mad (1933) and Something to Sing About (1937).

Coincidentally, Tucker's namesake, Richard Hawley Tucker, was an actual distinguished astronomer, and has a lunar crater named for him.