Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Jordan (July 19, 1937 – August 30, 1993) was an American stage, screen and film actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include Logan's Run, Les Misérables, Raise the Titanic!, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Success, The Hunt for Red October, Posse and Gettysburg. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard J...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Apartment of Erotic Horror
2006
Producer
A sleazy photographer makes a deal with a hideous demon for eternal youth in exchange for young, nubile young girls, whom he lures to his Brooklyn apa...

Gettysburg
1993
as Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching t...

Posse
1993
as Sheriff Bates
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for...

Primary Motive
1992
as Chris Poulas
In this political thriller, a gubernatorial candidate's idealistic press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the n...

Shout
1991
as Eugene Benedict
A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.

Delusion
1991
as Executive in Conference Room
In this fast-paced, noirish road movie, a computer expert embezzles half a million dollars and races off to Reno to start anew. Unfortunately, en rout...

Timebomb
1991
as Col. Taylor
When someone tries to murder watchmaker Eddy Kay, the incident triggers a barrage of nightmares and flashbacks into a past that isn't his own. Fearing...

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
as Self (archive footage)
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.

The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Dr. Jeffrey Pelt, National Security Advisor
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The Ameri...

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
1989
as Frank Salerno
Based on the true story of Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to ...

Romero
1989
as Father Rutilio Grande
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate s...

The Secret of My Success
1987
as Howard Prescott
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and gir...

Solarbabies
1986
as Grock
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by ...

The Men's Club
1986
as Kramer
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.

The Mean Season
1985
as Alan Delour
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As t...

Dune
1984
as Duncan Idaho
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spi...

A Flash of Green
1984
as Elmo Bliss
A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the ...

A Flash of Green
1984
Producer
A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the ...

Washington Mistress
1982
as Michael Reynolds
Maggie Parker, a U.S. Senator's ambitious aide, falls head over heels for her boss' chief adversary, Michael Reynolds, a high-powered lobbyist who hap...

The Bunker
1981
as Albert Speer
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle f...

Raise the Titanic
1980
as Dirk Pitt
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
1980
as Pinky
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.

Old Boyfriends
1979
as Jeff
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

Les Misérables
1978
as Jean Valjean
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

Interiors
1978
as Frederick
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughter...

The Defection of Simas Kudirka
1978
as Cmdr. Edward Devon
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied as...

One Night Stand
1976
as Paul
An aimless American translator gets involved with a series of Hong Kong women.

Logan's Run
1976
as Francis
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try f...

Rooster Cogburn
1975
as Hawk
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the ai...

The Yakuza
1974
as Dusty
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer...

Incident at Vichy
1973
as Von Berg, A Prince
Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, the capital of France while under Nazi occupation, ...

Kamouraska
1973
as Georges Nelson
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Eli...

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973
as Dave Foley
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously suppl...

Chato's Land
1972
as Earl Hooker
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

Klute
1971
as Man Kissing Bree in Night Club (uncredited)
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Valdez Is Coming
1971
as R. L. Davis
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon ...

Lawman
1971
as Crowe Wheelwright
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a st...

Ready for the People
1964
as Eddie Dickinson
In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, bu...