About Gordon Bendon
Lived 1929 – 2001 (aged 71). Gordon Bendon was a rugby union player.
Gordon John Bendon (9 April 1929 – 18 January 2001) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in Lambeth, Bendon was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon, London.
Bendon spent his entire career with Wasps, which he joined as a back-row forward aged 17, before being made to play prop and making that position his own. He was a Middlesex county representative.
Bendon was married to actress Adrienne Scott, the daughter of film producer Edwin J. Fancey.
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Gordon Bendon was born on 9 April 1929.
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Gordon Bendon died on 18 January 2001.
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Gordon Bendon was a rugby union player.
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