Background
Jordan, Glenn was born on April 5, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Jordan, Glenn was born on April 5, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1957. Postgraduate, Yale University School Drama, 1957—1958.
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 directing credits include small-screen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Hogan"s Goat, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, A Streetcar Named Desire, O Pioneers!, and A Christmas Memory. Additional television directing credits include Heartsounds, Botticelli, Sarah, Plain and Tall, To Dance with the White Dog, Barbarians at the Gate, The Long Way Home, Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter"s End, The Boys and Jane"s House.
Jordan has directed three feature films: Only When I Laugh, The Buddy System, and Mass Appeal.