Glenn Jordan
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 5, 1936 (age 90)
- Birthplace
- San Antonio, Texas
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
Known For
Filmography
Lucy
Movie · Director
Midwives
Movie · Director
Night Ride Home
Movie · Director
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Movie · Director
Legalese
Movie · Director
The Long Way Home
Movie · Director
A Christmas Memory
Movie · Director
Jake's Women
Movie · Director
After Jimmy
Movie · Director
Mary & Tim
Movie · Director
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie · Director
My Brother's Keeper
Movie · Director
Jane's House
Movie · Director
Barbarians at the Gate
Movie · Director
To Dance with the White Dog
Movie · Director
O Pioneers!
Movie · Director
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Movie · Director
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Movie · Director
The Boys
Movie · Director
Challenger
Movie · Director
Home Fires Burning
Movie · Director
Jesse
Movie · Director
Echoes in the Darkness
Movie · Director
Echoes in the Darkness
TV · Director · 2 eps
Promise
Movie · Director
Something in Common
Movie · Director
Dress Gray
TV · Director · 2 eps
Tough Love
Movie · Director
The Buddy System
Movie · Director
Mass Appeal
Movie · Director
Heartsounds
Movie · Director
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Movie · Director
Only When I Laugh
Movie · Director
The Princess and the Cabbie
Movie · Director
The Women's Room
Movie · Director
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
Movie · Director
The Family Man
Movie · Director
Friends
TV · Director · 1 ep
Les Misérables
Movie · Director
The Displaced Person
Movie · Director
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Movie · Director
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Movie · Director
Sunshine Christmas
Movie · Director
Delta County, USA
Movie · Director
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Movie · Director
One of My Wives Is Missing
Movie · Director
Family
TV · Director · 9 eps
Song of the Succubus
Movie · Director
Rock-a-Die Baby
Movie · Director
Shell Game
Movie · Director
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV · Director · 4 eps
Frankenstein
Movie · Director
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Movie · Director
A Prowler in the Heart
Movie · Director
Frankenstein
TV · Director · 2 eps
Particular Men
Movie · Director
Hogan's Goat
Movie · Director
The Typists
Movie · Director
Paradise Lost
Movie · Director
Dragon Country
Movie · Director
Let Me Hear You Whisper
Movie · Director
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · Director · 7 eps