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Glenn Jordan
San Antonio, Texas
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 direct…
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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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2003
Lucy
Movie Director
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2001
Midwives
Movie Producer
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1999
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Movie Producer
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1999
Night Ride Home
Movie Director
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1998
Legalese
Movie Director
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1998
The Long Way Home
Movie Director
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1997
A Christmas Memory
Movie Director
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1996
Mary & Tim
Movie Director
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1996
After Jimmy
Movie Director
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1996
Jake's Women
Movie Director
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1995
A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie Director
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1995
My Brother's Keeper
Movie Director
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1994
Jane's House
Movie Producer
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1993
To Dance with the White Dog
Movie Director
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1993
Barbarians at the Gate
Movie Director
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1992
O Pioneers!
Movie Director
More credits
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1991
The Boys
Movie Director
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1991
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Movie Director
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1991
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Movie Director
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1990
Challenger
Movie Director
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1989
Home Fires Burning
Movie Director
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1988
Jesse
Movie Director
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1987
Echoes in the Darkness
TV show Director
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1987
Echoes in the Darkness
Movie Producer
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1986
Promise
Movie Producer
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1986
Something in Common
Movie Director
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1986
Dress Gray
TV show Director
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1985
Tough Love
Movie Director
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1984
Mass Appeal
Movie Director
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1984
Heartsounds
Movie Director
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1984
The Buddy System
Movie Director
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1982
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
Movie Director
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1981
The Princess and the Cabbie
Movie Director
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1981
Only When I Laugh
Movie Director
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1980
The Women's Room
Movie Supervising Producer
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1979
The Family Man
Movie Director
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1979
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
Movie Director
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1979
Friends
TV show Director
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1978
Les Misérables
Movie Director
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1977
Sunshine Christmas
Movie Director
