Don Gordon

Don Gordo was an American film and television actor. His most notable film roles were those in which he appeared alongside his friend Steve McQueen: "Bullitt" (1968), "Papillon" (1973) and "The Towering Inferno" (1974). He enlisted in the Navy at the age of fifteen after the attack on Pearl Harbor, convincing his mother to say he was eighteen. He won eleven battle stars in World War II.