Gordon Gebert

Gordon Alan Gebert (born October 17, 1941) is a former child actor predominantly known for smaller roles in films such as Holiday Affair. In adulthood, he trained as an architect and has taught at The City College of New York.

Biography

Gebert was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1941 to Gordon and Violette Gebert. His father was a salesman for a trailer company and sold truck and bus fleets for Ford Motor Company in Iowa. In 1948, Gebert, aged seven years, moved with his family to Van Nuys, California. In 1949 Gebert was cast in the movie Holiday Affair. Thereafter, he performed in minor roles in 15 episodes of various television series, including The Donna Reed Show (one episode, 1959), and Bachelor Father (one episode, 1960); he also acted in nine full-length feature films and two shorts released between 1950 and 1970, always in the part of the son. Gebert's final performance was in a Christian youth scare film.

In young adulthood, Gebert enrolled at UCLA, transferred to the University of Southern California, and eventually earned a bachelor's degree in architecture at the age of 25 from MIT's Department of Architecture in 1966 and a master's degree from Princeton University in 1968. Since 1971 he has been a professor at New York's City College Spitzer School of Architecture, where he was Acting Dean of Architecture, 2015-2019. Gebert has been licensed to practice architecture in New York State since 1973.

Gebert married his second wife Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, professor of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College in 1986. They live in Poughkeepsie, New York, and have a grown son, Gordon Jr. (b. 1992), a graduate of Oakwood Friends School in Hudson Valley, and an employee at Delta Airlines Atlanta. Gebert has two adult daughters, Carrie Gebert-Kaplan and D'Arcy Gebert, from his first marriage in 1973 to Phyllis A. DeReamer of Greenfield, Massachusetts. He has four grandchildren, Ethan Kaplan, Jake Kaplan, Lucas Kaplan and Lennon Phillips.

Publications

• Gebert, G. A. (1966). Thesis: A continuing education conference center for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Gebert, G. A. (1985), Urban and Regional Information Systems Association. Academy of Local Government Information Sciences., & Local Government Computer Services Board of Ireland. Local government and information technology: Papers and reports from the International workshop held at Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland, April 24–27, 1984. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
• Gebert, G. A. (1985). "Application development approaches in a MUMPS environment". Journal of Medical Systems, 9, 3, 155–162.
• Gebert, G. A. (1986), Editorial: Software survey section. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 11, 3.