Directing
Glenn Jordan
Born April 5, 1936 · San Antonio, Texas (age 90)
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…
Known For
Tough Love · 1985Tough Love
★ 6.01985
MovieDramaTV Movie
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.
Sunshine Christmas · 1977Sunshine Christmas
★ 8.01977
MovieDramaTV Movie
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.
Particular Men · 1972Particular Men
★ 8.01972
MovieTV MovieDrama
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.
Les Misérables · 1978Les Misérables
★ 7.21978
MovieDramaHistory
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.
The Typists · 1971The Typists
★ 8.01971
MovieComedyDrama
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 Long Way Home · 1998The Long Way Home
★ 6.41998
MovieAdventureDrama
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.
Home Fires Burning · 1989Home Fires Burning
★ 6.51989
MovieDramaTV Movie
When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend.
Let Me Hear You Whisper · 1969Let Me Hear You Whisper
★ 8.01969
MovieDramaTV Movie
A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.
Movies
Tough Love · 1985Tough Love
★ 6.01985
MovieDramaTV Movie
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.
Sunshine Christmas · 1977Sunshine Christmas
★ 8.01977
MovieDramaTV Movie
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.
Particular Men · 1972Particular Men
★ 8.01972
MovieTV MovieDrama
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.
Les Misérables · 1978Les Misérables
★ 7.21978
MovieDramaHistory
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.
The Typists · 1971The Typists
★ 8.01971
MovieComedyDrama
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 Long Way Home · 1998The Long Way Home
★ 6.41998
MovieAdventureDrama
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.
Home Fires Burning · 1989Home Fires Burning
★ 6.51989
MovieDramaTV Movie
When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend.
Let Me Hear You Whisper · 1969Let Me Hear You Whisper
★ 8.01969
MovieDramaTV Movie
A scrub-woman attempts to rescue a dolphin who will talk to no one but her from a research laboratory.
Barbarians at the Gate · 1993Barbarians at the Gate
★ 6.91993
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Jake's Women · 1996Jake's Women
★ 6.51996
MovieComedyDrama
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.
O Pioneers! · 1992O Pioneers!
★ 6.21992
MovieTV MovieAction
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.
Promise · 1986Promise
★ 7.31986
MovieTV MovieDrama
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.
Song of the Succubus · 1975Song of the Succubus
★ 10.01975
MovieHorrorThriller
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.
Night Ride Home · 1999Night Ride Home
★ 5.81999
MovieDramaTV Movie
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.
Mass Appeal · 1984Mass Appeal
★ 5.91984
MovieComedyDrama
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.
Only When I Laugh · 1981Only When I Laugh
★ 5.71981
MovieComedyDrama
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.
The Boys · 1991The Boys
★ 7.01991
MovieComedyDrama
When Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, a chain-smoker. As Walter fights cancer he tries to put his affairs in order by teaching writing to prison inmates, talking to his son and ex-wife, and getting his partner to quit smoking.
A Christmas Memory · 1997A Christmas Memory
★ 6.21997
MovieDramaFamily
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan · 1977In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
★ 7.81977
MovieDramaTV Movie
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.
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale · 1976The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
★ 8.31976
MovieDramaTV Movie
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.
A Streetcar Named Desire · 1995A Streetcar Named Desire
★ 6.91995
MovieDramaTV Movie
A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
Something in Common · 1986Something in Common
★ 6.01986
MovieDramaRomance
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.
Sarah, Plain and Tall · 1991Sarah, Plain and Tall
★ 7.11991
MovieDramaFamily
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.
Mary & Tim · 1996Mary & Tim
★ 6.81996
MovieDramaRomance
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.
TV Shows
Family · 1976Family
★ 7.21976
SeriesDrama
The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.
Frankenstein · 1973Frankenstein
★ 4.01973
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Brilliant but egotistical Dr. Victor Frankenstein brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. Originally broadcast in two installments part of the Wide World of Entertainment series on ABC, it was reissued as a single feature on video.
Hallmark Hall of Fame · 1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
★ 8.81951
SeriesDrama
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin · 1974The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
★ 9.01974
SeriesDrama
Benjamin Franklin is a 1974 American television miniseries that chronicles the life of Benjamin Franklin. It was broadcast by CBS. It won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.
Echoes in the Darkness · 1987Echoes in the Darkness
1987
SeriesDramaCrime
This mini-series is a critically acclaimed drama of psychological intrigue, conspiracy and murder. It began in 1979 with the grisly discovery of school teacher Susan Reinert's nude, battered body. It ended seven years later, after one of the most massive homicide investigations in history.
Dress Gray · 1986Dress Gray
★ 5.11986
SeriesMysteryCrime
When a cadet at a military academy is found dead, the assumption is it was an accident. But the autopsy reveals that's not the case and that he's a homosexual and the last person he was with someone before he died and that someone is an academy upperclassman. The commandant wanting to protect the academy's good name tries to keep it quiet and hopefully no one will care about it. But the cadet comes from a prominent family and his father knows it couldn't have been an accident. And his sister knows one of the upper class men who knew his brother. And he learns the truth of her brother's death when he spoke to the academy doctor. Later when the commandant learns of this he orders the man brought to him and tells him to forget what he learned. But he sets out to find out the truth. At the same time the commandant gets some info that might implicate him.
Friends · 1979Friends
★ 7.01979
SeriesDrama
Friends is a short-lived kids-oriented drama that aired in the spring of 1979. The series, which was produced by Aaron Spelling and aired on ABC, starred Charlie Aiken, Jill Whelan, and Jarrod Johnson as three Southern Californian 11-year-olds. Karen Morrow also appeared. Only five one-hour episodes were produced before the series was cancelled.