Actors Guild President Plans to Run for Congress
Screen Actors Guild President Barry Gordon, following a handful of predecessors who have gone on to elective politics, plans to run for the 27th Congressional District seat of Republican Rep. Carlos J. Moorhead of Glendale.
Gordon, a Democrat who has been nominated for a Tony award and appeared on the TV series “Archie Bunker’s Place,” has said he will give up his union post in November.
The Pasadena resident could not be reached for comment Tuesday. But a campaign consultant, Wirt Morton, said Gordon had scheduled a press conference Friday to announce his intention to run.
Moorhead, first elected in 1972, could not be reached for comment, but a spokesman in his district office said that he has not made a decision whether to run for reelection.
SAG presidents who have entered politics include Ronald Reagan and George Murphy, who served in the U.S. Senate.
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