Gordon Cunningham
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| Hollyoaks character | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Bernard Latham | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1995–2004, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 23 October 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 11 July 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Phil Redmond | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spin-off appearances |
Hollyoaks: The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous (2009) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Businessman | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Family | Cunningham |
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| Wife |
Angela Cunningham (until 1994) Helen Richardson (1999–2004) |
| Sons |
Max Cunningham Tom Cunningham |
| Daughters |
Dawn Cunningham Jude Cunningham Cindy Cunningham |
| Stepsons | Lewis Richardson |
| Stepdaughters | Mandy Richardson |
| Grandsons |
Hilton Cunningham Alfie Nightingale |
| Granddaughters |
Bethany Cunningham Holly Cunningham Steph Cunningham |
| First cousins | Benny Cunningham |
Gordon Hilton Cunningham (commonly referred to as Mr. C) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Bernard Latham. He first appeared as one of the original characters on the show when it started, he left in 2004 when the character died of a heart attack which he had after being involved in a car accident. He briefly returned in 2008 in a dream sequence.
Gordon begins to comfort his daughter Dawn when she struggles to fend off the advances of her mother's new boyfriend, Terry. Gordon tries to help his ex-wife, Angela overcome her crippling debts and tries to inject some discipline into the lives of their wayward children. Gordon soon builds up a witty repartee with Tony Hutchinson, when he becomes landlord of Got it Taped, and finds himself in various scrapes in his desperate attempts to keep Max and Cindy on the straight and narrow. However, things get bad for Gordon as he discover that Cindy was pregnant, and loses Dawn to leukaemia, and also is saddened when Jude runs off the next year after getting herself in trouble with the police.
Gordon opens his own mini supermarket called Drive 'n' Buy. He rediscovers the joys of romance later in life, falling for the recently divorced Helen Richardson. When he discovers that Helen is pregnant with his child, he does the honourable thing and asks her to marry him. With Helen come her children, Mandy and Lewis Richardson, promoting the merging of the Cunningham and Richardson families. Soon, Gordon becomes "Councillor of Chester", after he beats tough competition from Tony Hutchinson and Matt Musgrove. With the Richardson family comes considerable angst, culminating in Lewis's suicide, yet Gordon proves himself as the rock to his wife and together they have a son called Tom. Gordon began to become self-conscious. After he turns fifty, he begins a 'new look' to make himself look younger with the help of student, Nick O'Connor.
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