Gordon Gebert

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Gordon Alan Gebert Jr. (born October 17, 1941) is an American former child actor, architect, and professor. He is best known for playing Janet Leigh's son in Holiday Affair and for other film roles. He acted in nine feature films, including The Narrow Margin and The House on Telegraph Hill, and appeared in two short films. He also had minor TV roles in about 15 episodes, including The Donna Reed Show (1959) and Bachelor Father (1960). His last on-screen work was in a Christian youth scare film.

Gebert was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and moved with his family to Van Nuys, California, in 1948. After high school, he briefly attended UCLA and USC before earning a bachelor’s degree in architecture from MIT in 1966 and a master’s degree from Princeton in 1968. Since 1971 he has taught at the City College of New York, where he served as Acting Dean of Architecture from 2015 to 2019. He has been licensed to practice architecture in New York since 1973.

He married Phyllis A. DeReamer in 1973 (they later divorced) and had two daughters. In 1988 he married Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, a professor at Vassar College, and they live in Manhattan with their son.