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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.
Most Popular Glenn Jordan Trailers
Total trailers found: 55
01 March 1998
A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an old flame he's recently heard from after 55 years.
05 March 1976
Vacationing in a small town, a frantic Daniel Corban shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared.
22 April 1973
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
14 December 1984
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
13 October 1985
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
04 May 1984
A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequently befriends the kid and his mother.
14 May 1979
A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son.
16 January 1973
A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in two installments on TV as part of the Wide World of Entertainment series.
20 March 1993
F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.
01 December 1977
General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
24 October 1995
A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
27 December 1978
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
17 February 1982
A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.
25 September 1981
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter.
02 January 1996
Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with.
19 December 1979
A happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers who has been having troubles with her lover.
01 November 1987
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Res
02 April 2001
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth.
09 May 1975
A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.
12 April 1977
A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
14 September 1980
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school.
26 September 1977
Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has lapsed into a coma from which doctors say she will never recover.
30 September 1984
New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help.
05 December 1993
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.
12 December 1977
A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas with his family.
21 March 1975
A premonition comes true when the members of a rock group begin to die off for no apparent reason.
07 February 1999
When a devastating accident tears apart the already frayed marriage of Neal and Nora Mahler, each family member must learn that their own emotions are best dealt with by relying on each other and their bonds as a family.
03 November 1981
A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.
29 January 1989
When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend.
07 March 1975
The leader of a rock group is haunted by the ghost of a music star who took her own life at the turn of the century.
24 September 1996
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices.
23 May 1969
A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.
03 February 1991
Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone.
02 January 1970
Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with searching clarity.
18 October 1971
A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair with a just-deceased rich girl.
20 November 1999
The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity.
02 November 1986
A young man and a nice woman in her forties fall in love. His mother goes berserk when he tells her about it and when the girlfriend comes to meet the mother, she wants to jump out of her skin.
25 February 1990
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff.
15 April 1972
A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the atomic bomb, grapple with the morality of their work, and confront major problems with their superiors.
04 May 2003
MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.
25 March 1973
A mystery novelist meticulously creates an alibi to keep her husband from being convicted of murder.
21 December 1986
Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schizophrenic.
25 February 1971
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them.
10 March 1991
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
19 March 1995
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
21 December 1997
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.
15 April 1991
When Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, a chain-smoker.
03 November 1996
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing.
16 June 1976
The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.
04 October 1998
When an actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.
02 February 1992
A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning for her childhood love to return.
20 May 1977
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life.
07 October 1971
Real-life couple Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson star in this 1971 television adaptation of Murray Schisgal's moving play, in which married law student Paul Cunningham takes a job as a typist for an ad agency, where he meets lonely spinster Sylvia.
02 January 1994
Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When he unexpectedly falls in love with Mary, a former tennis-player, the couple decide to marry and live together.
04 October 1988
Based on the true story of a caring nurse whose work in Death Valley was challenged by the state.
