Glenn Jordan

Director · Born April 5, 1936 · 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

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2000s

2003
Lucy
Director
2001
Midwives
Director

1990s

1999
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Director
Night Ride Home
Director
1998
Legalese
Director
The Long Way Home
Director
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1997
A Christmas Memory
Director
1996
Mary & Tim
Director
Jake's Women
Director
1995
A Streetcar Named Desire
Director
1994
Jane's House
Director
1993
To Dance with the White Dog
Director
Barbarians at the Gate
Director
1992
O Pioneers!
Director
1991
The Boys
Director
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Director
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Director
1990
Challenger
Director

1980s

1989
Home Fires Burning
Director
1988
Jesse
Director
1987
Echoes in the Darkness
Director
Echoes in the Darkness
Director
1986
Promise
Director
Something in Common
Director
Dress Gray
Director
1985
Tough Love
Director
1984
Mass Appeal
Director
Heartsounds
Director
The Buddy System
Director
1982
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Director
1981
Only When I Laugh
Director
1980
The Women's Room
Director

1970s

1979
The Family Man
Director
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
Director
Friends
Director
1978
Les Misérables
Director
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1977
Sunshine Christmas
Director
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Director
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Director
The Displaced Person
Director
1976
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Director
Family
Director
75
One of My Wives Is Missing
Director
1975
Shell Game
Director
Rock-a-Die Baby
Director
Song of the Succubus
Director
1974
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
Director
1973
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Director
A Prowler in the Heart
Director
Frankenstein
Director
Frankenstein
Director
1972
Particular Men
Director
1971
Hogan's Goat
Director
The Typists
Director
Paradise Lost
Director
1970
Dragon Country
Director

1960s

1969
Let Me Hear You Whisper
Director

1950s

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Director

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