Barry Gordon | About Barry

-- longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild and former candidate for Congress -- has hosted progressive talk shows on radio, TV, and now the Internet. In addition to his "ranting" and taking calls from the audience, Barry has interviewed top guests from the worlds of politics and entertainment.

"You're ... setting an example to others in the media: that you don't have to be timid."

-- Rep. John Conyers Jr.

"Barry, you keep speaking your words, speaking your mind, speaking your heart."

-- Burt Bacharach

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BARRY GORDON began his professional life at age three, as a child singer and actor. He won second place on the "Ted Mack Amateur Hour" singing Johnnie Ray's "Cry" (He still knows the words). At six, Barry recorded "Nuttin' for Christmas," still listed as one of the top ten best-selling Christmas records of all time.

When he was thirteen, Barry's Broadway debut, in Herb Gardner's "A Thousand Clowns," earned him a Tony nomination for the role of Nick, a role he reprised in the successful film version.

Barry became a fixture as a character actor in feature films and television, most prominently as a co-star in the hit series "Fish" and playing opposite Carroll O'Connor as the lawyer Rabinowitz in "Archie Bunker's Place." Barry's voice has been heard for decades as the Nestle Quik Bunny and as Donatello in the original animated series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." More recently, he had a recurring role as the Rabbi in HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

Outside of show business, Barry's interests moved into law and politics. In his mid-thirties, he returned to school; graduated summa cum laude as a political science major from California State University, Los Angeles; and went on to Loyola Law School, receiving his J.D. in 1991.

Putting his love of show business and law together, Barry became the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, holding the office for seven years -- one year longer than either Charlton Heston or Ronald Reagan.

In 1998, as a Democratic nominee for Congress, Barry stunned the political establishment by coming within three points of beating the popular Republican incumbent, Rep. James Rogan, who went on to become one of the House impeachment managers and subsequently lose his seat.

In addition to teaching a course in politics and the media at the California State University - Los Angeles, Barry has been heard in Southern California and across the Internet on his weekly radio show, "Barry Gordon From Left Field," which aired throughout 2006 and into 2007 on KCAA 1050 AM. He also has a webcast cable TV show called "NewsRap," airing Wednesday evenings from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Pasadena Channel 56 and www.pasadenacommunitynetwork.com.

And in the politically historic summer of 2008, Barry launched "Left Talk with Barry Gordon," an Internet talk radio show webcast worldwide on BlogTalkRadio.