Richard Jordan Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award in 1987 for directing "Largo Desolato․"
• Graduated from Harvard University in 1958 and did post-graduate work at the Universite du Theatre des Nations in Paris
• Played the lead role in "Mister Roberts" when he was 16 and attending the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn
• Appeared in over 100 plays on and Off Broadway, and spent eight seasons performing with the New York Shakespeare Festival
• Gained acclaim at a national level when he played Irish immigrant Joseph Armagh in the television series "Captains and the Kings․"
• Owned dogs named Robert Redford and Alfred E․ Neuman
• Was a master carpenter and assembled the sets for several of his stage productions