“Showing the film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence at peak-time on our most watched channel could turn the murder into one of those occasional real-life parables that change the way a people thinks about itself...The faces of the killers are among the most terrifying images of modern Britain, but the face of Stafford Gordon as one of the Met's absurd Police Chiefs will remain with me
as long.”. Andrew Billen, Evening Standard.

“There is, they say, a perfect production of Twelfth Night laid up for us in Heaven, but until we reach that blessed state, Nancy Meckler's Young Vic version will do very nicely to be going on with.”. Michael Billington, The Guardian.

“Stafford Gordon's Orsino is a braw bearded Laird, for which virility much thanks.”. John Barber, Daily Telegraph.

“I have seldom felt so disturbingly excited as I was at the action scenes, many shot at night, all of them horribly convincing. What an excellent series Spearhead has been.”. Bill Grundy, Evening Standard.

“Rock solid at the centre of it all in Spearhead is Sergeant Major Tom Gilby, a beautifully judged portrayal of the true professional by Stafford Gordon.”. Robin Stringer, Daily Telegraph.

“In Adrian Mitchell's A Seventh Man at The Hampstead Theatre, Stafford Gordon plays the Turkish migrant worker Stefan, a wily clown expert at tying bureaucracy in knots.”. Michael Billington, The Guardian.

(I was Head of Interrogation, Port Elizabeth Security Forces, Major Harold Snyman, in United British Artist's stage production of, The Biko Inquest, directed by Albert Finney; it finally became a Channel 4 Film Production.) “Among the audience on the first night was my friend and Biko family lawyer Sydney Kentridge, who was being portrayed by Albert Finney,...the hypnotic force of the play is so remarkable that when the magistrate said, 'Very well, carry on Mr Kentridge.', Sydney found himself rising to his feet.”. Bernard
Levin, The Times.

“In this adaptation of Zola's Germinal, the opposing groups, thrashing around with increasing frenzy on their industrial treadmill, are calmly observed by the motionless Souvarine (Stafford Gordon).”. Irving Wardle, The Times.

“The deep thinking Russian nihilist Souvarine is imbued with a quiet, self-contained iron inner strength by Stafford Gordon.”. Roger Malone, The Stage.