From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Glenn Jordan born April 5 1936 is an awardwinning 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 directing credits include smallscreen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray Les Misérables Hogans Goat Eccentricities of a Nightingale A Streetcar Named Desire O Pioneers and A Christmas Memory Additional television directing credits include Heartsounds Sarah Plain and Tall To Dance with the White Dog Barbarians at the Gate The Long Way Home and Sarah Plain and Tall Winters End Jordan has directed three feature films Only When I Laugh The Buddy System and Mass Appeal Jordan has been nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and won four for producing the miniseries Benjamin Franklin for producing and directing the Hallmark Hall of Fame production Promise and for executive producing the HBO production Barbarians at the Gate He won two New York area Emmys for the PBS series Actors Choice and New York Television TheaterHe won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for Family and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials or Movies for Television for Les Misérables Three of his productions Benjamin Franklin Heartsounds and Promise have won Peabody Awards Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Jordan licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia