Biography
Yale Drama School graduate and Café La Mama veteran Glenn Jordan has been an "A"-list TV director since his work on the 1971 PBS production
Hogan's Goat. Jordan's many prestigious TV-movie assignments have included
Frankenstein (1973),
Les Miserables (1978),
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982) and
Barbarians at the Gate (1992) He has also helmed such two-part dramatic specials as
Dress Gray (1985) and Echoes of the Darkness (1987). Jordan's shining hour was the 1991
Hallmark Hall of Fame offering Sarah Plain and Tall, a winner of nine Emmy Awards; earlier, Jordan had personally picked up two Emmies for producing and directing the memorable
James Garner/
James Woods TV movie
Promise (1986). He has also won the Directors Guild of America award for his work on the late-1970s TV series
Family, as well as several Peabody awards for other projects. Surprisingly, Glenn Jordan has directed only three theatrical features, the best of which was 1984's
Mass Appeal. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide