Glenn Jordan
Birth Name:
Glenn Jordan
Birth Place:
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Profession
Director, Producer, Writer, Actor
Fast Facts
- Won a 1977 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for "Family," which he shared with the assistant directors of the series
- Graduated from Yale Drama School and went on to direct many award-winning television productions
- Has directed small-screen adatations of several stories that originated in other media including "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Les Misérables" and "A Streetcar Named Desire․"
- Several of his television movies have been based on real people, including Benjamin Franklin, George Armstrong Custer, Lucille Ball, Christa McAuliffe and Karen Ann Quinlan
- Broke from his favored medium of television in the first half of the 1980s to direct three feature films
- Two of the Oscar nominated performances he has directed were for the film, "Only When I Laugh․"
Awards
- 1975Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Limited Series:Winner
- 1975Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series:Nominated
- 1977DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series - Night:Winner
- 1979DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials/Movies for TV/Actuality:Nominated
- 1979Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special:Nominated
- 1981Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Drama Special:Nominated
- 1986Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Miniseries:Nominated
- 1987Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or a Special:Winner
- 1987Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special:Winner
- 1988Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or a Special:Nominated
- 1991Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or a Special:Nominated
- 1991Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special and Miniseries:Nominated
- 1993Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special:Nominated
- 1993Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Made for Television Movie:Winner
- 1993Bronze Wrangler - Television Feature Film:Winner
- 1994CableACE - Directing a Movie or Miniseries:Nominated
- 1994CableACE - Movie or Miniseries:Nominated
- 1994Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Made for Television Movie:Nominated
- 1994Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special:Nominated