Richard Jordan

Richard Jordan

Born: July 19, 1937
Died: August 30, 1993
in New York City, New York, United States
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Richard Jordan (July 19, 1937 – August 30, 1993) was an American stage, screen and film 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, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Success, The Hunt for Red October, Posse and Gettysburg.

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Gettysburg
Title: Gettysburg
Character: Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead
Released: October 8, 1993
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
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Posse
Title: Posse
Character: Sheriff Bates
Released: May 14, 1993
Type: Movie
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
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Primary Motive
Title: Primary Motive
Character: Chris Poulas
Released: August 2, 1992
Type: Movie
In this political thriller, a gubernatorial candidate's idealistic press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the nest of his campaigns with terrible lies.
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Shout
Title: Shout
Character: Eugene Benedict
Released: October 4, 1991
Type: Movie
A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.
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Delusion
Title: Delusion
Character: Executive in Conference Room
Released: June 7, 1991
Type: Movie
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. As soon as he can, he hits the road to get revenge and to find his money before they do.
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Timebomb
Title: Timebomb
Character: Col. Taylor
Released: May 25, 1991
Type: Movie
When someone tries to murder watchmaker Eddy Kay, the incident triggers a barrage of nightmares and flashbacks into a past that isn't his own. Fearing for his sanity, Eddy contacts psychiatrist Dr. Anna Nolmar for help. Anna thinks he's hallucinating until another attack proves the dangers are all too real. The two of them go on the run, trying to discover the truth about Eddie's past and true identity before it kills them.
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Title: Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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The Hunt for Red October
Title: The Hunt for Red October
Character: Jeffrey Pelt
Released: March 2, 1990
Type: Movie
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!
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Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
Title: Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
Character: Frank Salerno
Released: November 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down.
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Romero
Title: Romero
Character: Father Rutilio Grande
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Charles McKenzie
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Title: The Murder of Mary Phagan
Character: Hugh Dorsey
Released: January 24, 1988
Type: TV
The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1987 two-part American TV miniseries made by Orion Pictures Corporation and distributed by National Broadcasting Company, is a dramatization of the story of Leo Frank, a factory manager charged and convicted with murdering a 13-year-old girl, a factory worker named Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913. The trial was sensational and controversial. After Frank's legal appeals had failed, the governor of Georgia in 1915 commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1915 Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a small group of prominent men of Marietta, Georgia. The film features Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller, Charles Dutton, Peter Gallagher, Cynthia Nixon, Dylan Baker, and William H. Macy. Written by Larry McMurtry, produced by George Stevens, Jr., and directed by William "Billy" Hale, the film was shot in Richmond, Virginia. It has a running time of 251 minutes, originally broadcast over two evenings.
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The Secret of My Success
Title: The Secret of My Success
Character: Howard Prescott
Released: April 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
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Solarbabies
Title: Solarbabies
Character: Grock
Released: November 26, 1986
Type: Movie
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
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The Men's Club
Title: The Men's Club
Character: Kramer
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Harley Gage
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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The Mean Season
Title: The Mean Season
Character: Alan Delour
Released: February 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.
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Dune
Title: Dune
Character: Duncan Idaho
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
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A Flash of Green
Title: A Flash of Green
Character: Elmo Bliss
Released: April 21, 1984
Type: Movie
A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the developer's latest project.
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Washington Mistress
Title: Washington Mistress
Character: Michael Reynolds
Released: January 13, 1982
Type: Movie
Maggie Parker, a U.S. Senator's ambitious aide, falls head over heels for her boss' chief adversary, Michael Reynolds, a high-powered lobbyist who happens to be married with children. Both mismatched lovers become involved in a long-running affair.
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The Bunker
Title: The Bunker
Character: Albert Speer
Released: April 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
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Raise the Titanic
Title: Raise the Titanic
Character: Dirk Pitt
Released: August 1, 1980
Type: Movie
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Title: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Character: Pinky
Released: March 16, 1980
Type: Movie
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
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Title: The French Atlantic Affair
Character: Julian Wunderlicht
Released: November 15, 1979
Type: TV
When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it's paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979.
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Old Boyfriends
Title: Old Boyfriends
Character: Jeff
Released: March 22, 1979
Type: Movie
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Jean Valjean
Released: December 27, 1978
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Interiors
Title: Interiors
Character: Frederick
Released: August 2, 1978
Type: Movie
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Title: The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Character: Cmdr. Edward Devon
Released: January 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.
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One Night Stand
Title: One Night Stand
Character: Paul
Released: October 16, 1976
Type: Movie
An aimless American translator gets involved with a series of Hong Kong women.
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Title: Captains and the Kings
Character: Joseph Armagh
Released: September 30, 1976
Type: TV
Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.
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Logan's Run
Title: Logan's Run
Character: Francis
Released: June 23, 1976
Type: Movie
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
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Rooster Cogburn
Title: Rooster Cogburn
Character: Hawk
Released: November 1, 1975
Type: Movie
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Minister Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
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The Yakuza
Title: The Yakuza
Character: Dusty
Released: December 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia.
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Incident at Vichy
Title: Incident at Vichy
Character: Von Berg, A Prince
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation, and "investigated" under suspicion of secretly being Jewish.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Steve Macey
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Kamouraska
Title: Kamouraska
Character: Georges Nelson
Released: July 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Title: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Character: Dave Foley
Released: June 26, 1973
Type: Movie
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
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Title: Banacek
Character: Chris Bailey
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.
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Chato's Land
Title: Chato's Land
Character: Earl Hooker
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
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Klute
Title: Klute
Character: Man Kissing Bree in Night Club (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1971
Type: Movie
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
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Valdez Is Coming
Title: Valdez Is Coming
Character: R. L. Davis
Released: April 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.
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Lawman
Title: Lawman
Character: Crowe Wheelwright
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Alex Tanner
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Ready for the People
Title: Ready for the People
Character: Eddie Dickinson
Released: October 1, 1964
Type: Movie
In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: John Strafaci
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Peter Crewe
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Jonah
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.