Glenn Jordan

Glenn Jordan

Рождение : 1936-04-05, San Antonio, Texas

История

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

Профиль

Glenn Jordan

Фильмы

Lucy
Director
MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.
Midwives
Director
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. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.
Midwives
Producer
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. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Producer
The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs father, John Witting, thought long ago dead, hard questions about the past are difficult to get answered.
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Director
The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs father, John Witting, thought long ago dead, hard questions about the past are difficult to get answered.
Night Ride Home
Producer
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.
Night Ride Home
Director
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.
Legalese
Producer
When an actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.
Legalese
Director
When an actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.
Долгий путь домой
Producer
Том Геррин вдовец и пенсионер, не вписывающийся в жизнь своих детей. Но он не сдаётся и совершает удивительное путешествие автостопом из Канзаса в Калифорнию. Посещая места, где он бывал в молодости, вспоминая друзей, Том понимает, что жизнь прожита не зря, и что ещё есть ради чего жить.
Долгий путь домой
Director
Том Геррин вдовец и пенсионер, не вписывающийся в жизнь своих детей. Но он не сдаётся и совершает удивительное путешествие автостопом из Канзаса в Калифорнию. Посещая места, где он бывал в молодости, вспоминая друзей, Том понимает, что жизнь прожита не зря, и что ещё есть ради чего жить.
Воспоминания об одном Рождестве
Producer
Фильм о дружбе мальчика и женщины. Каждое Рождество они готовят и рассылают пироги своим друзьям, дарят друг другу подарки.
Воспоминания об одном Рождестве
Director
Фильм о дружбе мальчика и женщины. Каждое Рождество они готовят и рассылают пироги своим друзьям, дарят друг другу подарки.
Mary & Tim
Producer
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.
Mary & Tim
Director
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.
After Jimmy
Director
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.
Jake's Women
Producer
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
Director
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.
Трамвай «Желание»
Producer
Далеко не юная, но все еще привлекательная Бланш Дюбуа приезжает в Новый Орлеан к беременной сестре Стелле, живущей с мужем Стэнли в местных трущобах. Бланш сообщает сестре, что разорена, ушла с работы и жить ей негде и не на что. Стэнли, воплощение естественности и грубости, сразу невзлюбил её за пристрастие к алкоголю и неуместное кокетство. Вскоре у Бланш появляется поклонник и призрачная надежда на замужество, но Стэнли расстраивает их помолвку.
Трамвай «Желание»
Director
Далеко не юная, но все еще привлекательная Бланш Дюбуа приезжает в Новый Орлеан к беременной сестре Стелле, живущей с мужем Стэнли в местных трущобах. Бланш сообщает сестре, что разорена, ушла с работы и жить ей негде и не на что. Стэнли, воплощение естественности и грубости, сразу невзлюбил её за пристрастие к алкоголю и неуместное кокетство. Вскоре у Бланш появляется поклонник и призрачная надежда на замужество, но Стэнли расстраивает их помолвку.
My Brother's Keeper
Director
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
Jane's House
Director
Paul Clark and his children are really down-hearted after the death of Jane, Pauls wife. He falls in love with the business- woman Mary, a former tennis-player. They decide to live together. That appears to be very difficult. Their characters are totally different, and so are their lifestyles. Mary's continuously reminded of the deceased Jane.
To Dance with the White Dog
Producer
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
Director
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.
Варвары у ворот
Director
Ф. Росс Джонсон, бывший продавец газет в канадском Виннипеге, теперь исполнительный директор крупной нью-йоркской табачной компании. Очередной рекламный проект похоже обречен на провал, и он планирует скупить все акции по низкой цене и стать владельцем фирмы. Ему бы это удалось, если бы не Генри Кравиц, с его кузеном Джорджем Робертсом. Соперничество становится все сильнее, и компании RJR Nabisco грозит переворот.
O Pioneers!
Producer
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!
Director
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.
Мальчишки
Producer
Автобиографичная история, основанная на событиях последних месяцев жизни писателя Ричарда Левинсона. Уолтер и Арти — друзья с детства и партнеры-сценаристы. Уолтер узнает о том, что, несмотря на здоровый образ жизни, у него обнаружен рак легких. Ему необходимо сообщить об этом Арти, заядлому курильщику. Уолтер борется с раком, учит тюремных заключенных писательскому мастерству, беседует с сыном и бывшей женой, и пытается заставить Арти бросить курить…
Мальчишки
Director
Автобиографичная история, основанная на событиях последних месяцев жизни писателя Ричарда Левинсона. Уолтер и Арти — друзья с детства и партнеры-сценаристы. Уолтер узнает о том, что, несмотря на здоровый образ жизни, у него обнаружен рак легких. Ему необходимо сообщить об этом Арти, заядлому курильщику. Уолтер борется с раком, учит тюремных заключенных писательскому мастерству, беседует с сыном и бывшей женой, и пытается заставить Арти бросить курить…
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Director
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
Сара, высокая и простая женщина
Producer
На рубеже 19-го и 20-го веков овдовевший фермер из Канзаса Джейкоб Уиттинг, оставшийся с двумя детьми, помещает в газету объявление о том, что ищет себе новую жену. Прочитав объявление, жительница штата Мэн Сара Уитмен решает оставить налаженную жизнь и свой дом на берегу моря, чтобы посвятить себя новой семье и стать верной женой и любящей матерью.
Сара, высокая и простая женщина
Director
На рубеже 19-го и 20-го веков овдовевший фермер из Канзаса Джейкоб Уиттинг, оставшийся с двумя детьми, помещает в газету объявление о том, что ищет себе новую жену. Прочитав объявление, жительница штата Мэн Сара Уитмен решает оставить налаженную жизнь и свой дом на берегу моря, чтобы посвятить себя новой семье и стать верной женой и любящей матерью.
Challenger
Director
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.
Огонь в домашнем очаге
Director
Конец Второй мировой войны. Маленький городок в штате Джорджия. В семейство Тиббетов возвращается после военной службы сын. Однако члены семьи давно разобщены войной и старыми дрязгами, и теперь все три поколения Тиббетов вынуждены заново искать общий язык друг с другом.
Jesse
Director
True television account of a caring nurse whose work in Death Valley was challenged by the state.
Echoes in the Darkness
Producer
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
Director
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
Обещание
Producer
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. When Bob eventually takes over responsibility for his younger brother’s well-being, he embarks upon the most difficult challenge of his life.
Обещание
Director
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. When Bob eventually takes over responsibility for his younger brother’s well-being, he embarks upon the most difficult challenge of his life.
Something In Common
Director
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. Accepting her son's choice won't be easy.
Toughlove
Director
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
Mass Appeal
Director
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
Heartsounds
Director
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. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and compassion. Ultimately the greatest battle is not waged against the medical profession, however, but against Lear's own failing body and his own mortal fears.
The Buddy System
Director
A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequently befriends the kid and his mother.
Lois Gibbs And The Love Canal
Director
An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970s.
The Princess and the Cabbie
Director
A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.
Только когда я смеюсь
Director
По пьесе Нила Саймона. Джорджия Хайнс, 38-летняя актриса, выписывается из клиники, где она лечилась от алкоголизма. Ее дочь Полли переезжает к ней. Вскоре и Дэвид, ее бывший муж, встречается с Джорджией и сообщает, что написал пьесу под названием "Только когда я смеюсь" об их прошлой совместной жизни и просит ее сыграть главную роль.
The Women's Room
Supervising Producer
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
Director
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 Family Man
Director
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.
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
Director
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.
Отверженные
Director
Беглый каторжник Жан Вальжан обокрал священника, давшего ему еду и ночлег. Когда же Вальжана поймали, священник сказал жандармам, что подарил ему не только украденное столовое серебро, но и подсвечники. Этот поступок предопределил всю дальнейшую жизнь озлобленного человека, проведшего на каторге почти двадцать лет за кражу хлеба. Под другим именем Вальжан становится владельцем фабрики и мэром небольшого города, где всего себя посвящает служению людям и добру. Направленный в этот город инспектор полиции Жавер, охранявший Вальжана на каторге, узнает его и начинает преследовать героя, фанатично стремясь свершить правосудие — так, как он его понимает. А добряк Вальжан успел усыновить дочь умершей женщины Фантины Козетту, пообещав позаботиться о сироте. Вальжан и Козетта пытаются навсегда скрыться от Жавера. Безуспешно. Во время революции 1848 года состоится последняя, решающая встреча старых врагов…
Sunshine Christmas
Director
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.
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Director
General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
Director
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.
Delta County, USA
Director
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
The Displaced Person
Director
A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Director
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.
One of My Wives Is Missing
Director
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.
Shell Game
Director
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.
Rock-a-Die Baby
Director
A premonition comes true when the members of a rock group begin to die off for no apparent reason.
Song of the Succubus
Director
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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Director
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
Frankenstein
Director
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.
Particular Men
Director
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.
Hogan's Goat
Director
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.
The Typists
Director
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.
Paradise Lost
Director
Clifford Odets' portrait of the Depression, Paradise Lost, was premiered by the Group Theatre in a ground-breaking 1935 Broadway production directed by Harold Clurman and starring Luther and Stella Adler, Yiddish theatre legend Morris Carnovsky, Elia Kazan and Sanford Meisner, among others. It became one of the Group's most controversial plays and remains Odets' favorite. Set in 1932, Paradise Lost unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them.
Dragon Country
Producer
TV movie containing filmed versions of "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow" and "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen"
Dragon Country
Director
TV movie containing filmed versions of "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow" and "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen"
Let Me Hear You Whisper
Producer
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
Director
A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.