Glenn Jordan

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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…

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A Streetcar Named DesireA Streetcar Named Desire · 1995
A 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.
Barbarians at the GateBarbarians at the Gate · 1993
Barbarians 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.
Echoes in the DarknessEchoes in the Darkness · 1987
Echoes in the Darkness
★ 7.51987
MovieDramaTV Movie
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years
The Long Way HomeThe Long Way Home · 1998
The 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.
O Pioneers!O Pioneers! · 1992
O 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.
Only When I LaughOnly When I Laugh · 1981
Only 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.
To Dance with the White DogTo Dance with the White Dog · 1993
To Dance with the White Dog
★ 7.21993
MovieDramaTV Movie
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.
Something in CommonSomething in Common · 1986
Something 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.

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Dress GrayDress Gray · 1986
Dress 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.

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