<P> Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948) is an American film, television and voice actor and political talk show host and producer . He was the longest - serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, having served from 1988 to 1995 . </P> <P> Gordon was born in Brookline, Massachusetts . His stepfather, Bob Manning, was a crooner in the 1940s and' 50s of popular love songs, most known for his rendition of Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You". He began his professional life at age three; in his TV debut, he won second place on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour singing Johnnie Ray's "Cry ." At six, Gordon recorded "Nuttin' for Christmas". He was the youngest performer ever to hit a pre-Hot 100 Billboard chart, when that song hit #6 in 1955 . It sold over 1 million copies, and was awarded a gold disc . The next year he charted his second and final single, "Rock Around Mother Goose ." In circa 1956, Bill Haley recorded a private demo recording titled "Six Year Olds Can Rock and Roll ." He begins the recording (released in 1990) by dedicating it to Barry Gordon . </P> <P> As a child star, Gordon also appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show, The Jack Benny Program, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Danny Thomas Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Star Time with Benny Goodman . Gordon was cast as Humberto in an episode of the NBC sitcom Sally, starring Joan Caulfield, and as Chopper in ABC's Leave It to Beaver Episode 119: "Beaver's House Guest". Gordon guest starred on two CBS sitcoms, The Ann Sothern Show and Dennis the Menace, starring child actor Jay North . </P> <P> In 1962 Barry played the part of the childhood version of the' Patient' in "Pressure Point". At 13, Gordon began a career on Broadway, as Nick in Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns, a role for which he earned a Tony Award nomination . He later reprised that role in the film version opposite Jason Robards and Martin Balsam in 1965 . The film gave him "introducing" billing but he had actually been in several films already, most notably his actual film debut in 1956's The Girl Can't Help It as a newspaper boy in which he uttered the classic line after seeing Jayne Mansfield, "If that's a girl, I don't know what my sister is ." </P>

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