Gordon Lake

Early Life
Gordon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Henry Lake a general surgeon at St. Jude's Hospital and Sophia Lake (Sutherland). As a child, Lake was in many musicals in C.W Brown Public School during his school years including The Sound of Music, West Side Story and Oklahoma. When he was in tenth grade, Lake started writing musicals for the school. When he graduated the school gave him a $30,000 scholarship, he didn't accept the offer and instead moved to Los Angeles with the $5,000 his family gave him.

Later Life
Lake started writing screenplays for many Hollywood studios and earned thousands of dollars in his first month. Lake eventually had enough money to create Lake Studios alongside co-writer Larry Bennett. He then left writing and directed his first movie Blood Skyscraper starring Alexander Paige and Joan Grant in 2006.