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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.
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Filmography
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Director 58
Movies 55
TV Shows 6
Producer 3
Lucy (2003)
Midwives (2001)
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
Night Ride Home (1999)
Legalese (1998)
The Long Way Home (1998)
A Christmas Memory (1997)
Mary & Tim (1996)
After Jimmy (1996)
Jake's Women (1996)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
My Brother's Keeper (1995)
Jane's House (1994)
To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
O Pioneers! (1992)
The Boys (1991)
Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
Challenger (1990)
Home Fires Burning (1989)
Jesse (1988)
Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
Promise (1986)
Something In Common (1986)
Dress Gray (1986)
Toughlove (1985)
Mass Appeal (1984)
Heartsounds (1984)
The Buddy System (1984)
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982)
The Princess and the Cabbie (1981)
Only When I Laugh (1981)
The Women's Room (1980)
The Family Man (1979)
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (1979)
Friends (1979)
Les Misérables (1978)
Sunshine Christmas (1977)
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977)
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan (1977)
Delta County, USA (1977)
The Displaced Person (1977)
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1976)
Family (1976)
One of My Wives Is Missing (1976)
Shell Game (1975)
Rock-a-Die Baby (1975)
Song of the Succubus (1975)
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)
A Prowler in the Heart (1973)
Frankenstein (1973)
Particular Men (1972)
Hogan's Goat (1971)
The Typists (1971)
Paradise Lost (1971)
Dragon Country (1970)
Let Me Hear You Whisper (1969)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Challenger
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1936-04-05 (88 years old)
Birth PlaceSan Antonio, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsGlenn A. Jordan
AwardsDirectors Guild of America Award, Primetime Emmy Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special
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