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Cause of death
  
Brain tumor

Role
  
Television actor

Name
  
Richard Jordan

Years active
  
1961–93

Resting place
  
Cremation


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Full Name
  
Robert Anson Jordan, Jr.

Born
  
July 19, 1937 (
1937-07-19
)
New York City, New York, U.S.

Occupation
  
Stage, film, and television actor

Partner(s)
  
Blair Brown (1976–85)1 son, Robert Christian Anson Jordan IIIMarcia Cross (1985–93; his death)

Died
  
August 30, 1993, Los Angeles, California, United States

Spouse
  
Kathleen Widdoes (m. 1964–1972)

Children
  
Nina Jordan, Robert Christopher Hand Jordan

Parents
  
Robert Christopher Anson, Sr, Constance Hand-Jordan

Movies
  
Logan's Run, The Secret of My Success, Raise the Titanic, The Hunt for Red October, The Friends of Eddie Co

Similar People
  
Margaret Whitton, Marcia Cross, Kathleen Widdoes, Michael Anderson, Blair Brown

Richard Jordan


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Richard Jordan (born Robert Anson Jordan, Jr.; July 19, 1937 – August 30, 1993) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include Logan's Run, Les Misérables, Raise the Titanic, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, Interiors, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Success, The Hunt for Red October, Posse and Gettysburg.

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Early life

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Jordan was born in New York City, to Robert Anson Jordan, Sr., from Boston, Massachusetts, and Constance (née Hand), from New York. His maternal grandfather was Learned Hand, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and one of the most respected jurists in the United States. In 1942, when Jordan was five years old, his parents divorced. His mother married Newbold Morris, president of the New York City Council. The marriage was performed by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia at Gracie Mansion, and was the first marriage to be performed there.

Career

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Jordan attended the Hotchkiss School. Following his graduation from Harvard University in 1958, Jordan began his acting career in earnest. In 1961, he appeared on Broadway with Art Carney and Elizabeth Ashley in Take Her, She's Mine. He also began working in television productions, appearing in episodes of The Defenders, Naked City, Empire and The Wide Country. He performed with Joseph Papp's Public Theater in productions of Shakespeare's plays, such as The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice and As You Like It. In 1966, Jordan returned to Broadway, appearing in Generation with Henry Fonda.

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Beginning in 1970, Jordan turned from television to feature film work. He co-starred in Lawman (1971) and Valdez Is Coming (1971) with Burt Lancaster, and appeared opposite Robert Mitchum twice, in The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), as the informant-Coyle's handler, a pragmatic U.S. Treasury agent; and in The Yakuza (1975) as the bodyguard of Mitchum's friend, George Tanner. He played a host of villains and mixed good guy-villains in films such as the western Rooster Cogburn (1975), sci-fi adventure Logan's Run (1976) and the Woody Allen-directed drama Interiors (1978). There was also the occasional "good guy," as in Old Boyfriends (1979), in which he played the father of his own daughter, Nina.

Jordan also continued on the stage, joining Ralph Waite in the L.A. Actors' Theatre. He wrote, directed and performed in plays such as Venus of Menschen Falls (1978). In 1976, he starred as Joseph Armagh, an Irish immigrant who fights his way to power and wealth but loses his soul along the way, in the television miniseries Captains and the Kings. Jordan earned a Golden Globe award, and an Emmy nomination for the production. In the 1980s, Jordan performed in films including Raise the Titanic (1980), Flash of Green (1984), Dune (1984), The Mean Season (1985) and The Secret of My Success (1987). He co-starred in an acclaimed television production of The Bunker (1981), playing Albert Speer to Anthony Hopkins's Hitler. In ten episodes of the popular television series The Equalizer (1987–1988), he helped fill in while the star, Edward Woodward, recovered from a heart attack. On stage, he won an Obie award for his appearance in New York in the Czech playwright Václav Havel's A Private View (1983) and an L.A. Drama Critics' Award for directing another Havel play, Largo Desolato (1987). In Romero (1989), Jordan played Romero's friend, Father Rutilio Grande.

In 1990, Jordan directed a production of Macbeth in New York City. He played U.S. National Security Advisor Jeffrey Pelt in The Hunt for Red October. He starred in a television production of Three Hotels (1991) and the 1991 "Deadline" episode of Tales from the Crypt. In Posse (1993), Jordan portrays Bates, a racist sheriff with his own plans for land on which the Negro town of Freemanville stands.

Jordan's last film to be released was Gettysburg (1993), which was filmed during the summer of 1992. He portrayed Brig. Gen. Lewis "Lo" Armistead, who was one of the Confederate officers in the doomed Pickett's Charge at the battle of Gettysburg. Producer-director Ronald F. Maxwell dedicated the film to Jordan and to author Michael Shaara, whose novel The Killer Angels was adapted for the film.

Personal life

Jordan's daughter, Nina Jordan, was born in 1964, during his 1964–72 marriage to actress Kathleen Widdoes. His son, Robert Christian Anson Jordan III, was born in 1982, during his nine-year relationship with actress Blair Brown. At the time of his death, Jordan was in a relationship with actress Marcia Cross.

Death

By 1993, his health began to fail and he was diagnosed with brain cancer. He was filming The Fugitive in April 1993 when his terminal illness forced him to withdraw. He died on August 30, 1993, cared for by his daughter Nina and his companion, Marcia Cross.

A memorial in Jordan's honor was held at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on October 8, 1993, the day Gettysburg was released.

Filmography

Actor
1993
Gettysburg as
Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead
1993
Posse as
Sheriff Bates
1992
Primary Motive as
Chris Poulas
1991
Heaven Is a Playground as
David Racine
1991
Shout as
Eugene Benedict
1991
Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) as
Charles McKenzie
- Deadline (1991) - Charles McKenzie
1991
Delusion as
Executive in Conference Room
1991
Timebomb as
Col. Taylor
1991
American Playhouse (TV Series) as
Kenneth Hoyle
- Three Hotels (1991) - Kenneth Hoyle
1990
The Hunt for Red October as
Jeffrey Pelt
1989
Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (TV Movie) as
Sergeant Frank Salerno
1989
Romero as
Father Rutilio Grande
1987
The Equalizer (TV Series) as
Harley Gage
- Something Green (1988) - Harley Gage
- Video Games (1988) - Harley Gage
- The Child Broker (1988) - Harley Gage
- A Dance on the Dark Side (1988) - Harley Gage
- Christmas Presence (1987) - Harley Gage
- The Rehearsal (1987) - Harley Gage
- Inner View (1987) - Harley Gage
- Shadow Play (1987) - Harley Gage
- Mission: McCall: Part 2 (1987) - Harley Gage (uncredited)
- Mission: McCall: Part 1 (1987) - Harley Gage
1988
The Murder of Mary Phagan (TV Mini Series) as
Hugh Dorsey
- Episode #1.2 (1988) - Hugh Dorsey
- Episode #1.1 (1988) - Hugh Dorsey
1987
The Secret of My Success as
Howard Prescott
1986
Solarbabies as
Grock
1986
The Men's Club as
Kramer
1985
The Mean Season as
Alan Delour
1984
Dune as
Duncan Idaho
1984
A Flash of Green as
Elmo Bliss
1982
Insight (TV Series) as
Jeb
- Leave Me Alone, God (1982) - Jeb (as Richard Jordon)
1982
Washington Mistress (TV Movie) as
Michael Reynolds
1981
The Bunker (TV Movie) as
Albert Speer
1980
Raise the Titanic as
Dirk Pitt
1980
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square as
Pinky
1979
The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini Series) as
Julian Wunderlicht
- Episode #1.3 (1979) - Julian Wunderlicht
- Episode #1.2 (1979) - Julian Wunderlicht
- Episode #1.1 (1979) - Julian Wunderlicht
1979
Old Boyfriends as
Jeff
1978
Les Miserables (TV Movie) as
Jean Valjean
1978
Interiors as
Frederick
1978
The Defection of Simas Kudirka (TV Movie) as
Commander Edward Devon
1977
Alibis as
Paul
1976
Captains and the Kings (TV Mini Series) as
Joseph Armagh
- Chapter VIII (1976) - Joseph Armagh
- Chapter VII (1976) - Joseph Armagh
- Chapter VI (1976) - Joseph Armagh
- Chapter V (1976) - Joseph Armagh
- Chapter IV (1976) - Joseph Armagh
- Chapter III (1976) - Joseph Armagh
- Chapter II (1976) - Joseph Armagh
- Chapter I (1976) - Joseph Armagh
1976
Logan's Run as
Francis
1975
Rooster Cogburn as
Hawk
1974
The Yakuza as
Dusty
1973
Hec Ramsey (TV Series) as
Charles Clavell
- The Detroit Connection (1973) - Charles Clavell
1973
Kojak (TV Series) as
Steve Macey
- Dark Sunday (1973) - Steve Macey
1973
Incident at Vichy (TV Movie) as
Von Berg, A Prince
1973
Banacek (TV Series) as
Chris Bailey
- If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is? (1973) - Chris Bailey
1973
The Friends of Eddie Coyle as
Dave Foley
1973
Nightside (TV Movie) as
Gable
1973
Kamouraska as
Georges Nelson
1973
The F.B.I. (TV Series) as
Alex Tanner
- The Detonator (1973) - Alex Tanner
1972
Chato's Land as
Earl Hooker
1972
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine as
George Mische
1971
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (TV Series) as
Deputy D.A. Andrew Craig
- Justice Is a Sometime Thing (1971) - Deputy D.A. Andrew Craig
1971
Klute as
Man kissing Jane Fonda in night club (uncredited)
1971
Valdez Is Coming as
R. L. Davis
1971
Lawman as
Crowe Wheelwright
1966
Hawk (TV Series) as
Warren Cross
- Some Devil Whispered in His Ear (1966) - Warren Cross
1964
Ready for the People (TV Movie) as
Eddie Dickinson
1962
The Defenders (TV Series) as
John Strafaci / Peter Crewe
- The Star Spangled Ghetto (1963) - John Strafaci
- The Broken Barrelhead (1962) - Peter Crewe
1962
Empire (TV Series) as
Jay Bee Fowler
- End of an Image (1963) - Jay Bee Fowler
- Long Past, Long Remembered (1962) - Jay Bee Fowler
1962
Ben Casey (TV Series) as
Davey Crutchfield
- Between Summer and Winter, the Glorious Season (1962) - Davey Crutchfield
1962
Wide Country (TV Series) as
Ernie Stannard
- Our Ernie Kills People (1962) - Ernie Stannard
1962
Naked City (TV Series) as
Jonah
- And by the Sweat of Thy Brow- (1962) - Jonah
Producer
1984
A Flash of Green (producer)
Thanks
2014
Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- Dune: Edición Especial (2014) - (in memory of)
1993
Gettysburg (dedicatee)
Self
1988
The Princess Grace Foundation Special Gala Tribute to Cary Grant (TV Special) as
Self
1985
The Making of 'The Mean Season' (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1979
Arthur Miller on Home Ground (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1976
The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) as
Self - Actor / Self - Co-Host
- Episode #18.119 (1979) - Self - Actor
- Episode #16.92 (1977) - Self - Co-Host
- Episode #16.62 (1976) - Self - Actor
1976
A Look Into the 23rd Century (Documentary short) as
Self
1976
Today (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 30 September 1976 (1976) - Self
1974
...Promises to Keep (Documentary short) as
Self (uncredited)
Archive Footage
1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (TV Movie documentary) as
Actor 'The Yakuza' (uncredited)

References

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