Glenn Jordan
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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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Movies (55)
Lucy
2003 · Director
Midwives
2001 · Producer, Director
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999 · Producer, Director
Night Ride Home
1999 · Director, Producer
Legalese
1998 · Director, Producer
The Long Way Home
1998 · Director, Producer
A Christmas Memory
1997 · Director, Producer
Mary & Tim
1996 · Director, Producer
After Jimmy
1996 · Director, Producer
Jake's Women
1996 · Director, Producer
A Streetcar Named Desire
1995 · Director, Producer
My Brother's Keeper
1995 · Director, Producer
Jane's House
1994 · Producer, Director
To Dance with the White Dog
1993 · Director, Producer
Barbarians at the Gate
1993 · Director
O Pioneers!
1992 · Director, Producer
The Boys
1991 · Director, Producer
Aftermath: A Test of Love
1991 · Director, Supervising Producer
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1991 · Director, Producer
Challenger
1990 · Director
Home Fires Burning
1989 · Director
Jesse
1988 · Director
Echoes in the Darkness
1987 · Producer, Director
Promise
1986 · Producer, Director
Something in Common
1986 · Director
Tough Love
1985 · Director
Mass Appeal
1984 · Director
Heartsounds
1984 · Director
The Buddy System
1984 · Director
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
1982 · Director
The Princess and the Cabbie
1981 · Director
Only When I Laugh
1981 · Director
The Women's Room
1980 · Supervising Producer, Director
The Family Man
1979 · Director
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
1979 · Director
Les Misérables
1978 · Director
Sunshine Christmas
1977 · Director
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977 · Director
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
1977 · Director
Delta County, USA
1977 · Director
The Displaced Person
1977 · Director
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
1976 · Director
One of My Wives Is Missing
1976 · Director
Shell Game
1975 · Director
Rock-a-Die Baby
1975 · Director
Song of the Succubus
1975 · Director
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1973 · Director
A Prowler in the Heart
1973 · Director
Frankenstein
1973 · Director
Particular Men
1972 · Director
Hogan's Goat
1971 · Director, Producer
The Typists
1971 · Director
Paradise Lost
1971 · Producer, Director
Dragon Country
1970 · Producer, Director
Let Me Hear You Whisper
1969 · Director, Producer
