Glenn Jordan

Directing

Glenn Jordan

Born

1936-04-05 (90)

Place of birth

San Antonio, Texas

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

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 …

Known for

Tough Love poster
6.0

The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Tough Love" program in searching for answers.

Tough Love

1985

Sunshine Christmas poster
8.0

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. While there, he begins to rekindle the relationship he once had with his childhood girlfriend.

Sunshine Christmas

1977

The Typists poster
8.0

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. Through a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, the story of their relationship and developing romance unfolds. Emmy Award winner Glenn Jordan directs this volume from the Broadway Theater Archive.

The Typists

1971

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale poster
8.2

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.

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

1976

Let Me Hear You Whisper poster
8.0

A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.

Let Me Hear You Whisper

1969

A Streetcar Named Desire poster
6.9

A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

A Streetcar Named Desire

1995

Behind the camera

Tough Love poster
6.0

The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Tough Love" program in searching for answers.

Tough Love

1985

Sunshine Christmas poster
8.0

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. While there, he begins to rekindle the relationship he once had with his childhood girlfriend.

Sunshine Christmas

1977

The Typists poster
8.0

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. Through a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, the story of their relationship and developing romance unfolds. Emmy Award winner Glenn Jordan directs this volume from the Broadway Theater Archive.

The Typists

1971

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale poster
8.2

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.

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

1976

Let Me Hear You Whisper poster
8.0

A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.

Let Me Hear You Whisper

1969

Let Me Hear You Whisper poster
8.0

A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.

Let Me Hear You Whisper

1969

A Streetcar Named Desire poster
6.9

A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

A Streetcar Named Desire

1995

A Streetcar Named Desire poster
6.9

A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

A Streetcar Named Desire

1995

Barbarians at the Gate poster
6.9

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.

Barbarians at the Gate

1993

Song of the Succubus poster
10.0

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.

Song of the Succubus

1975

One of My Wives Is Missing poster
7.3

Vacationing in a small town, a frantic Daniel Corban shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared. Corban imperiously demands that the easygoing police inspector drop everything and find his missing spouse. Within a few days, a woman claiming to be his wife shows up, but Corban insists that he's never met the woman before.

One of My Wives Is Missing

1976

Only When I Laugh poster
5.7

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. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.

Only When I Laugh

1981

Les Misérables poster
7.1

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Les Misérables

1978

The Long Way Home poster
6.4

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.

The Long Way Home

1998

The Long Way Home poster
6.4

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.

The Long Way Home

1998

In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan poster
7.8

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. The parents must decide whether to keep her alive on life support systems, or to disconnect them and let her die with some dignity left.

In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

1977

To Dance with the White Dog poster
7.2

When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.

To Dance with the White Dog

1993

To Dance with the White Dog poster
7.2

When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.

To Dance with the White Dog

1993

Sarah, Plain and Tall poster
7.1

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. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.

Sarah, Plain and Tall

1991

Sarah, Plain and Tall poster
7.1

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. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.

Sarah, Plain and Tall

1991

Particular Men poster
8.0

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. Written by award-winning playwright Loring Mandel, this riveting production stars Stacy Keach, Alice Drummond, Lois Smith, Clifton James and Verna Bloom.

Particular Men

1972

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7.0

A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.

The Princess and the Cabbie

1981

Jake's Women poster
6.5

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. He is constantly talking to: his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. All he does is have imaginary conversations with real people that are at the moment out of his life. Maggie cannot stand his mind wandering off all the time and decides to separate for six months and at the end of six months they will decide whether or not to remain together. Jake has a few girl friends, but spends the six months, while waiting for Maggie, only talking to these imaginary people, and a few times to real people.

Jake's Women

1996

Jake's Women poster
6.5

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. He is constantly talking to: his deceased wife Julie, his daughter Molly, his sister Karen, and his psychiatrist Edith. All he does is have imaginary conversations with real people that are at the moment out of his life. Maggie cannot stand his mind wandering off all the time and decides to separate for six months and at the end of six months they will decide whether or not to remain together. Jake has a few girl friends, but spends the six months, while waiting for Maggie, only talking to these imaginary people, and a few times to real people.

Jake's Women

1996

Challenger poster
6.5

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. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.

Challenger

1990

No artwork available
1.0

A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.

My Brother's Keeper

1995

No artwork available
1.0

A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.

My Brother's Keeper

1995

Frankenstein poster
7.3

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.

Frankenstein

1973

The Women's Room poster
4.4

A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.

The Women's Room

1980

The Picture of Dorian Gray poster
6.2

A handsome young man trades his soul so that his portrait ages while he stays eternally young.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1973

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love poster
6.3

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. However, the boy turns out to autistic. Unhappy with the diagnoses and treatments available, they decide to work out their own therapy program for their son.

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love

1979

Echoes in the Darkness poster
7.5

Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years

Echoes in the Darkness

1987

Echoes in the Darkness poster
7.5

Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years

Echoes in the Darkness

1987

O Pioneers! poster
6.2

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.

O Pioneers!

1992

O Pioneers! poster
6.2

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.

O Pioneers!

1992

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal poster
6.5

A poorly-educated housewife fights companies polluting her hometown's water table in upstate New York during the 1970s.

Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal

1982

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer poster
2.0

General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

1977

Mass Appeal poster
6.1

A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

Mass Appeal

1984

Paradise Lost poster
9.0

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. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.

Paradise Lost

1971

Paradise Lost poster
9.0

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. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.

Paradise Lost

1971