Richard Jordan

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.

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

Occupation

theatre director / stage actor / television actor / film actor / actor

University

Harvard University

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3

Tags

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

Last updated

2026-06-02

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