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Glenn Jordan

Highest Rated: 100% Mass Appeal (1984)

Lowest Rated: 63% Only When I Laugh (1981)

Birthday: Apr 5, 1936

Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Working in television since 1966, director and producer Glenn Jordan has enjoyed an enormously successful career. With 56 titles to his credit, only three were not made for television. Specializing in small screen dramas and romance, Jordan has produced many of his films. Gaining traction in the early '70s, he directed the Emmy winning mini-series "Benjamin Franklin," starring Eddie Albert as the former president, earning his first Emmy for directing. The following year he directed several episodes of the drama "Family," winning a D.G.A. award for direction. He was nominated for another D.G.A. award in 1978 for the TV movie "Les miserables" adapted from the Victor Hugo novel. Joining "Hallmark Hall of Fame," Jordan won two Emmys, for directing and outstanding drama, for the episode "Promise" in 1986. Moving in to the '90s, Jordan directed arguably one of the best TV moves "Sarah, Plain and Tall." Starring Christopher Walken and Glenn Close as Sarah, the movie was nominated for nine Emmys and two Golden Globes. In 1993 he directed two Emmy nominated projects, "Barbarian at the Gates," a true story about the buyout of Nabisco, the second "Dancing with the White Dog," a family drama about an elderly man as he copes with the death of his wife, winning an award for the latter. In another successful adaptation, Jordan directed Tennessee Williams's play "A Streetcar Named Desire," starring Jessica Lange as Blanche DuBois, Diane Lane as Stella, and Alec Baldwin in the role made famous by Marlon Brando, Stanley Kowalski.

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Highest rated movies

100% 80% Mass Appeal
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80% 71% Sarah, Plain and Tall
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71% 75% Barbarians at the Gate
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63% 75% Only When I Laugh
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14% After Jimmy
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Midwives
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Frankenstein
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60% Dress Gray
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78% One of My Wives Is Missing
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45% Promise
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucy Director,
Executive Producer
- 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Midwives Director - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Night Ride Home Director,
Producer
- 1999
No Score Yet 72% Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End Director - 1999
No Score Yet 9% Legalese Director,
Producer
- 1998
No Score Yet 39% The Long Way Home Director,
Producer
- 1998
No Score Yet 66% A Christmas Memory Director,
Producer
- 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mary & Tim Director,
Producer
- 1996
No Score Yet 14% After Jimmy Director,
Producer
- 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jake's Women Director,
Producer
- 1996
No Score Yet 39% A Streetcar Named Desire Director,
Producer
- 1995
No Score Yet 81% My Brother's Keeper Director - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jane's House Director,
Producer
- 1994
71% 75% Barbarians at the Gate Director - 1993
No Score Yet 79% To Dance With the White Dog Director,
Producer
- 1993
No Score Yet 44% O Pioneers! Director,
Producer
- 1992
80% 71% Sarah, Plain and Tall Director - 1991
No Score Yet 88% Aftermath: A Test of Love Director - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Boys Director - 1991
No Score Yet 47% Challenger Director - 1990
No Score Yet 33% Home Fires Burning Director - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jesse Director - 1988
No Score Yet 86% Echoes in the Darkness Director - 1987
No Score Yet 60% Dress Gray Director - 1986
No Score Yet 45% Promise Director - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Something in Common Director - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Toughlove Director - 1985
100% 80% Mass Appeal Director - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heartsounds Director - 1984
No Score Yet 50% The Buddy System Director - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal Director - 1982
63% 75% Only When I Laugh Director - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Princess and the Cabbie Director - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Women's Room Director - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love Director - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Family Man Director - 1979
No Score Yet 76% Les Misérables Director - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Delta County, U.S.A. Director - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sunshine Christmas Director - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer Director - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan Director - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shell Game Director - 1975
No Score Yet 78% One of My Wives Is Missing Director - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Song of the Succubus Director - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Frankenstein Director - 1973
No Score Yet 45% The Picture of Dorian Gray Director - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Prowler in the Heart Director - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Particular Men Director,
Producer
- 1972

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Challenger Director 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fall Guy Unknown (Guest Star) 1986