Glenn Jordan
Born: 1936-04-05 in San Antonio, Texas
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Glenn Jordan (born April 5, 1936) is an award-winning American television director and producer. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Jordan directed multiple episodes of Family and has helmed numerous television movies, several based on real persons as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, George Armstrong Custer, Lucille Ball, Christa McAuliffe, and Karen Ann Quinlan. His directing credits include small-screen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Hogan's Goat, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, A Streetcar Named Desire, O Pioneers!, and A Christmas Memory. Additional television directing credits include Heartsounds, Sarah, Plain and Tall, To Dance with the White Dog, Barbarians at the Gate, The Long Way Home, and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End. Jordan has directed three feature films: Only When I Laugh, The Buddy System, and Mass Appeal. Jordan has been nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and won four, for producing the miniseries Benjamin Franklin for producing and directing the Hallmark Hall of Fame production Promise and for executive producing the HBO production[ "Barbarians at the Gate"]. He won two New York area Emmys for the PBS series ["Actor's Choice"] and ["New York Television Theater"].He won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for Family and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials or Movies for Television for Les Misérables. Three of his productions ("Benjamin Franklin" "Heartsounds" and "Promise") have won Peabody Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2003
- Lucy ... (Director)
2001
- Midwives ... (Producer)
1999
- Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End ... (Producer)
- Night Ride Home ... (Director)
1998
- Legalese ... (Director)
- The Long Way Home ... (Director)
1997
- A Christmas Memory ... (Director)
1996
- Mary & Tim ... (Director)
- After Jimmy ... (Director)
- Jake's Women ... (Director)
1995
- A Streetcar Named Desire ... (Director)
- My Brother's Keeper ... (Director)
1994
- Jane's House ... (Producer)
1993
- Barbarians at the Gate ... (Director)
- To Dance with the White Dog ... (Director)
1992
- O Pioneers! ... (Director)
1991
- The Boys ... (Director)
- Sarah, Plain and Tall ... (Director)
- Aftermath: A Test of Love ... (Director)
1990
- Challenger ... (Director)
1989
- Home Fires Burning ... (Director)
1988
- Jesse ... (Director)
1987
- Echoes in the Darkness ... (Producer)
- Echoes in the Darkness ... (Director)
1986
- Promise ... (Producer)
- Something in Common ... (Director)
- Dress Gray ... (Director)
1985
- Toughlove ... (Director)
1984
- Mass Appeal ... (Director)
- The Buddy System ... (Director)
- Heartsounds ... (Director)
1982
- Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal ... (Director)
1981
- Only When I Laugh ... (Director)
- The Princess and the Cabbie ... (Director)
1980
- The Women's Room ... (Supervising Producer)
1979
- The Family Man ... (Director)
- Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love ... (Director)
- Friends ... (Director)
1978
- Les Misérables ... (Director)
1977
- Sunshine Christmas ... (Director)
- The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer ... (Director)
- The Displaced Person ... (Director)
- In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan ... (Director)
- Delta County, USA ... (Director)
1976
- Family ... (Director)
- One of My Wives Is Missing ... (Director)
- The Eccentricities of a Nightingale ... (Director)
1975
- Shell Game ... (Director)
- Rock-a-Die Baby ... (Director)
- Song of the Succubus ... (Director)
1974
- The Lives of Benjamin Franklin ... (Director)
1973
- Frankenstein ... (Director)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray ... (Director)
- A Prowler in the Heart ... (Director)
1972
- Particular Men ... (Director)
1971
- Paradise Lost ... (Producer)
- Hogan's Goat ... (Director)
- The Typists ... (Director)
1970
- Dragon Country ... (Producer)
1969
- Let Me Hear You Whisper ... (Director)
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame ... (Director)