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Glenn Jordan

b. 1936

US-american film director and producer

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About Glenn Jordan

Born 1936. Glenn Jordan is an American film director, television director, television producer, director and film producer.

Glenn Jordan (born April 5, 1936) is a retired American television director and producer.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Jordan directed multiple episodes of Family and 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, The Women's Room, A Streetcar Named Desire, O Pioneers!, and A Christmas Memory. Additional television directing credits include Heartsounds, Botticelli, Sarah, Plain and Tall, To Dance with the White Dog, Barbarians at the Gate, The Long Way Home, Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, The Boys, and Jane's House.

Jordan directed three feature films: Only When I Laugh, The Buddy System, and Mass Appeal.

Jordan was 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 Theatre. 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.

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Primetime Emmy Award; Directors Guild of America Award; Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special

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Who is Glenn Jordan?

US-american film director and producer

When was Glenn Jordan born?

Glenn Jordan was born on 5 April 1936 in San Antonio.

What is Glenn Jordan's occupation?

Glenn Jordan is a film director, television director, television producer, director and film producer.

What nationality is Glenn Jordan?

Glenn Jordan is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Glenn Jordan

· Wikidata: Q2904987

· DBpedia: Glenn Jordan

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