1. In 1942, when Richard Jordan was five years old, his parents divorced.
19 Facts About Richard Jordan
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Richard Jordan's mother married Newbold Morris, president of the New York City Council.
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Richard Jordan continued to be known as Bob to those friends.
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In 1961, Richard Jordan appeared on Broadway with Art Carney and Elizabeth Ashley in Take Her, She's Mine.
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Richard Jordan began working in television productions, appearing in episodes of The Defenders, Naked City, Ben Casey, Empire, and The Wide Country.
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Richard Jordan 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.
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In 1966, Richard Jordan returned to Broadway, at the Morosco Theatre appearing in Generation with Henry Fonda.
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In 1970, Richard Jordan made his film debut in Lawman, and Valdez Is Coming, with Burt Lancaster, and appeared opposite Robert Mitchum twice: in The Friends of Eddie Coyle, as the informant-Coyle's handler, a pragmatic US Treasury agent; and in The Yakuza, as the bodyguard of Mitchum's friend, George Tanner.
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Richard Jordan played a host of villains and mixed good guy-villains in films such as the western Rooster Cogburn, sci-fi adventure Logan's Run, and the Woody Allen-directed drama Interiors.
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Richard Jordan played the father of his own daughter, Nina in Old Boyfriends, alongside Talia Shire.
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Richard Jordan wrote, directed, and performed in plays such as Venus of Menschen Falls.
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In 1976, Richard Jordan earned a Golden Globe award for his role as Joseph Armagh, an Irish immigrant who fights his way to power and wealth in Captains and the Kings.
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Richard Jordan co-starred in an acclaimed television production of The Bunker, playing Albert Speer to Anthony Hopkins's Adolf Hitler.
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Richard Jordan played Romero's friend, Father Rutilio Grande in Romero.
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In 1990, Richard Jordan directed a production of Macbeth in New York City.
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Richard Jordan starred in a television production of Three Hotels, and the 1991 "Deadline" episode of Tales from the Crypt.
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Richard Jordan's son Robert Anson Jordan III was born in 1982 during his nine-year relationship with actress Blair Brown.
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At the time of his death, Richard Jordan was in a relationship with actress Marcia Cross.
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Richard Jordan died on August 30,1993, at the age of 56, cared for by his daughter Nina and his companion, Marcia Cross.