Richard Jordan Filmography

Bobby

Crew: Post Production Supervisor

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Sharon Stone, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Twenty-two people become unwitting participants in a tragic and defining moment of the 1960's in this period drama from actor and director Emilio Estevez. It's early June in 1968, and the California presidential primary elections are occupying the minds of many in the Golden State, with Robert F. Read More

Gettysburg

Actors: Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes this sprawling historical epic. As in Shaara's novel, director Ronald Maxwell focuses on a handful of major players to dramatize the events of July 1863, when the armies of the Union and Confederacy clash at the small Read More

Posse

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Big Daddy Kane

Synopsis: Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the frontier with this action-packed western that's also an homage to spaghetti Westerns. During the Spanish-American War, a squadron of black soldiers led by Jesse Lee (Van Peebles) Read More

Primary Motive

Actors: Judd Nelson, Justine Bateman, Richard Jordan, John Savage, Malachi Throne

Synopsis: In this political thriller, an ambitious press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the nest of his campaigns with terrible lies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shout

Actors: John Travolta, James Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino

Synopsis: John Travolta stars as a hip music teacher in this old-fashioned pseudo-musical set in 1955, the dawn of the rock n' roll era. Travolta is Jack Cabe, a musician on the run in Texas for murdering a man during a recording session. Attempting to elude the law, Jack takes refuge at the Benedict School Read More

Timebomb

Actors: Michael Biehn, Patsy Kensit, Tracy Scoggins, Robert Culp, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: After he finds himself the target of mysterious assassins, an amnesiac (Michael Biehn) convinces a psychiatrist (Patsy Kensit) to help him remember his past. It would seem he was involved in a CIA operation that the agency does not want him to reveal. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Delusion

Actors: Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: In this fast-paced, noirish road movie, a computer expert embezzles half a million dollars and races off to Reno to start anew. Unfortunately, en route, he picks up a pair of hitchers and ends up entangled with a crazed couple who commandeer his car and leave him alone in the desert to die. Read More

Heaven Is a Playground

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Mike Warren, Richard Jordan, Victor Love, Janet Julian, Bo Kimble

Synopsis: Set in Chicago, Heaven is a Playground is about an inner-city basketball coach and a young lawyer who set out to save a group of teen-aged boys from crime and drugs by giving them athletic scholarships and teaching them basketball. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Deadline

Hunt for the Night Stalker

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-television Hunt for the Night Stalker is about a pair of Los Angeles police detectives who hunted down the satanic Californian serial killer Richard Ramirez during the mid-'80s. The film was originally aired under the title Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker Read More

The Hunt for Red October

Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill

Synopsis: The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders Read More

Romero

Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Tony Plana, Harold Gould

Synopsis: In El Salvador in the late '70s, the wealthy few rule the impoverished many. To maintain the status quo against peasant insurgents and labor organizations, the military regime brutalizes the populace, in particular, rebels who espouse Marxism. Assassinations, executions, and disappearances become Read More

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker

Actors: A. Martinez

Synopsis: Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker was a made-for-TV factual drama about the elusive killer who terrorized Southern California in the summer of 1985. Richard Jordan and A. Martinez star as the two LA detectives heading up the investigation. So much time is taken up with police procedure that Read More

The Secret of My Success

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow

Synopsis: Released at the height of his popularity on Family Ties and in the wake of Back to the Future and Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox stars in this "country boy in the big city" comedy, directed by Herbert Ross. After making the move from Kansas to New York City, Brantley Foster (Fox) secures a job in the Read More

The Murder of Mary Phagan

Actors: Wendy J. Cooke, Peter Gallagher, Kevin Spacey, Richard Jordan, Jack Lemmon

Synopsis: The made-for-TV The Murder of Mary Phagan is an account of the real-life events fictionalized in the 1937 theatrical feature They Won't Forget. In 1913, Atlanta-area teenager Mary Phagan (Wendy J. Cooke) is found murdered. Although the evidence points to another suspect (who years later confessed Read More

Solarbabies

Actors: Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, James LeGros, Adrian Pasdar

Synopsis: A futuristic dystopia is the setting for this tale about good versus evil and a magical space-sphere out to reestablish a civilized society. An orphanage in a bleak and deserted landscape imprisons a large group of youngsters who have divided into good and bad groups. One day, while competing at Read More

The Men's Club

Actors: Roy Scheider, Frank Langella, Harvey Keitel, Treat Williams, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: Based on a 1981 book by Leonard Michaels, focuses on a lawyer (Richard Jordan) who brings together a singularly dysfunctional group of men in a kind of venting, loquacious therapy session. All that talk brings out the worst in everyone. Cavanaugh (Roy Scheider) is a retired baseball star whose Read More

The Mean Season

Actors: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Bradford

Synopsis: Canadian actor/director Philip Borsos made a couple of interesting films before an untimely death in his early forties, including The Grey Fox (1982) and this crime thriller starring Kurt Russell as police beat reporter Malcolm Anderson. Happily abandoning the Miami Daily for which he's labored Read More

A Flash of Green

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ed Harris, Blair Brown, George Coe, Joan Goodfellow

Synopsis: A John D. MacDonald novel was the source material for A Flash of Green. Ed Harris plays a reporter for a Florida resort-town newspaper. His best friend is shady county-commissioner Richard Jordan. When Harris shows signs of sympathizing with a local ecology group that is dead set against a new Read More

Dune

Actors: Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and Read More

The Bunker

Actors: Susan Blakely, Cliff Gorman, Piper Laurie, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: This exhaustive (and exhausting) 3-hour TV movie dramatizes the last three months of Adolph Hitler's life, spent in his bunker in Berlin. Anthony Hopkins is repulsively riveting as Hitler, while Piper Laurie is even more frightening as fanatical Frau Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) feeds Read More

Washington Mistress

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a married politician (Richard Jordan) and a spunky congressional aide (Lucie Arnaz) start up an adulterous affair that could land them both in hot water. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Raise the Titanic

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Richard Jordan, Alec Guinness, David Selby, Anne Archer

Synopsis: This box-office bomb is about some schemers' hell-bent efforts to raise the fated vessel from its murky grave when they suspect that there's a fortune in radioactive cargo aboard. To add a little excitement, a bunch of Russians decide they want to get there first. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Old Boyfriends

Actors: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine, John Belushi, John Houseman

Synopsis: Noted screenwriter Joan Tewksbury made her directorial debut with this bittersweet comedy-drama. Diane Cruise (Talia Shire), a psychologist going through a severe depression, takes a long look at her life after attempting to commit suicide. Diane decides to pay a visit to her former boyfriends in Read More

The Big Scam

Actors: Gloria Grahame, David Niven, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square was the original title of this British caper film. David Niven does his suave 'n' blase bit as a criminal mastermind planning a giant bank heist. Richard Jordan co-stars as an American ex-con tapped to oversee the operation. Gloria Grahame, in one of her last Read More

Les Miserables

Actors: Richard Jordan, Anthony Perkins

Synopsis: The 1979 TV movie Les Miserables was advertised as the 12th feature film to be based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel (and that was a modest estimate). This time, Richard Jordan is the persecuted French ex-convict Jean Valjean, and Anthony Perkins is the relentless police officer Javert, who dogs Read More

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

Synopsis: Alan Arkin stars as real-life Lithuanian seaman Simas Kudirka, a radio operator on a Russian vessel. When his ship docks at Martha's Vineyard in early 1970, Kudirka makes a dramatic leap from the deck, landing on the American coast guard cutter Vigilant. He announces that he wishes to Read More

Interiors

Actors: Maureen Stapleton, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, and Mary Beth Hurt play Renata, Flyn, and Joey, the grown daughters of wealthy Arthur (E.G. Marshall) and his emotionally disturbed wife, Eve (Geraldine Page). When Arthur leaves Eve, her three daughters rally around her. As it turns out, none of the daughters are Read More

One Night Stand

Actors: Richard Jordan, Mei Fang, Tsang Kong

Synopsis: Richard Jordan plays Paul, a disillusioned American in search of the meaning of life. After his ex-wife attempts suicide, Paul retreats to Hong Kong. Here he tries to assuage his angst by becoming involved with several local lovelies. Still unsatisfied, Paul leaves the British protectorate, once Read More

Logan's Run

Actors: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett

Synopsis: In a hermetically sealed, post-apocalyptic urban environment several centuries hence, Logan 5 (Michael York) and his friend Francis 7 (Richard Jordan) lead unquestioning lives of hedonism. Entertainment comes in the form of casual sexual liaisons and gladiatorial games in which those who do not Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

Rooster Cogburn

Actors: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire

Synopsis: John Wayne returned to the role that won him an Oscar in this sequel to the western classic True Grit. Rooster Cogburn (Wayne) has once again been stripped of his badge after some questionable behavior with his gun, but he's given the chance to earn it back after an especially appalling crime Read More

The Yakuza

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen thriller from a script by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne. The Yakuza stars Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer, a former soldier who returns to Japan to help rescue the daughter of his friend George Read More

Kojak: Dark Sunday

Synopsis: After a routine heist, two-bit car thief Artie Fowler (Mark Alaimo) is killed in cold blood. Kojak suspects that there's something bigger than a standard robbery going on--especially after Artie's girlfriend Maria (Lara Parker) lets slip that an upcoming "caper" will make fools of the authorities. Read More

The F.B.I.: The Detonator

Synopsis: A familiar film noir plotline is dusted off and gussied up in this episode. A former convict hires hit man Alex Tanner (Richard Jordan) to kill the attorney who sent the ex-con to prison--but then has second thoughts. Unfortunately, the elusive assassin has no intention of breaking the contract Read More

Banacek: If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?

Synopsis: A rich hypochondriac steals the world's medical knowledge stored in a powerful computer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Kamouraska

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Philippe Léotard, Marcel Cuvelier

Synopsis: Elizabeth (Genvieve Bujold) lives in a small French-speaking village in early 19th-century Canada. She was widowed once, thanks to the kind offices of an American royalist doctor. Her first husband's death was arranged by Elizabeth and the doctor, but after a crisis of conscience, the doctor Read More

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle chronicles the last days of a weary Boston-based weapons dealer. Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) doesn't want to serve a life sentence in prison, so he becomes an informant for both the police and the treasury Read More

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

Actors: Gwen Arner, Ed Flanders, Barton Heyman, Richard Jordan, Nancy Malone

Synopsis: Father Daniel Berrigan, at the height of the Vietnam War, was arrested along with eight other protesters (including his brother Philip) in Baltimore in 1968, for burning draft records. Berrigan later penned a didactic play, based upon the incident, which was the basis for this film. The motives Read More

Lawman

Actors: Bill Brimley, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Sheree North, Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis: In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all costs. Riding into a nearby town to pick up a group of local carousers who, during a drunken spree, killed an old man, Maddox meets up with Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb). Bronson Read More

Valdez Is Coming

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Barton Heyman, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, Valdez is Coming stars Burt Lancaster in the title role. A scrupulously honest Mexican-American marshal, Bob Valdez is double-crossed and humiliated by wealthy, unscrupulous rancher Jon Cypher. Since Cypher has the law on his side, Valdez is obliged to mete Read More

Chato's Land

Actors: Sally Adez, Sonia Rangan, Rudy Ugland, Rebecca Wilson, Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, Richard Basehart, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Charles Bronson stars in this revisionist western directed by Michael Winner. The film concerns an Apache half-breed, Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson), who finds himself pursued by a relentless posse, headed by Joshua Everette (Jack Palance), after Chato has killed a white sheriff. But when members Read More

Khartoum

Actors: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox

Synopsis: After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier) massacres a British-led force of 8,000 and marches on the strategic city of Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The British Read More

Ready for the People

Actors: Simon Oakland, Everett Sloane, Anne Helm, Karl Held

Synopsis: Murray Brock (Simon Oakland) is a crusading New York district attorney out to prove that young Eddie Dickenson (Richard Jordan) is innocent of murder in this uneven crime drama. With the help of legal assistant Dave Ryan (Karl Held), he tries to keep Eddie from being convicted and sentenced to Read More