My Take
Richard Jordan is one of those actors who should be far better remembered than he is — a Harvard-educated New Yorker who brought real intellectual weight to everything he touched. He was a fixture at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and you could feel that classical stage training in every screen performance: coiled, precise, never showing the work. He had this rare ability to play intelligence convincingly, which made him magnetic in roles that called for a certain cerebral menace or quiet authority. His film and television work in the seventies and eighties was consistently excellent even when the projects around him weren't. Losing him to a brain tumor in 1993 at just 56 felt genuinely cruel — he was exactly the kind of actor who gets better with age, and the roles he never got to play haunt you a little.
Overview
Robert Anson Jordan Jr. (July 19, 1937 – August 30, 1993), known professionally as Richard Jordan, was an American actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Richard Jordan
- Name (Japanese)
- リチャード・ジョーダン
- Reading
- りちゃーど・じょーだん
- Born
- July 19, 1937 – August 30, 1993
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Ox
- Origin
- New York City, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- theatre director / stage actor / television actor / film actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Harvard University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
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7. About this entry
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- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.