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Richard Jordan

リチャード・ジョーダン / りちゃーど・じょーだん

American theatre director

July 19, 1937 – August 30, 1993 ・ New York City, New York, United States

  • New York
  • theatre director
  • stage actor
  • television actor

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

7. About this entry

Tags

  • New York
  • theatre director
  • stage actor
  • television actor
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.