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| 371.1 | | 11578::MAXFIELD | The secret of my excess... | Mon Nov 08 1993 09:48 | 4 |
| A note in Soapbox reported that Richard Jordan died of a brain tumor
on or near Aug. 31, 1993.
Richard
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| 371.2 | can't place him | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | are they playing our song? | Mon Nov 08 1993 13:00 | 4 |
| Who did he play in Gettysburg?
Lorna
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| 371.3 | | 3270::AHERN | Dennis the Menace | Mon Nov 08 1993 16:08 | 3 |
| Who did he play in "Logan's Run", the guy that went after Logan and the
girl?
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| 371.4 | | DSSDEV::RUST | | Mon Nov 08 1993 16:46 | 4 |
| Re .3: Yep, that was him. I _think_ he played Dirk Pitt in "Raise the
Titanic," too.
-b
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| 371.5 | Harvard boy, wasn't he? | RAGMOP::KEEFE | | Mon Nov 08 1993 17:00 | 6 |
| Before somebody enters his entire film-ography or whatever you call it,
special mention to his roles in The Yakuza as second banana to Robert
Mitchum, and The Friends of Eddie Coyle, as second banana to...hey!, in
which he had a grating phony bad Boston accent but other than that was
quite good.
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| 371.6 | RJ's finest hour (and forty minutes) | 51219::GARLICK_N | | Tue Nov 09 1993 02:10 | 22 |
| Being English, I can't say anything about his accent in The Friends of
Eddie Coyle, but it was a great performance. And I'm glad to hear that
somebody else has seen The Yakuza. And he was great in that, too.
But for me, his best performance was in an otherwise not-so-memorable The
Mean Season where he was murdering people in Florida and terrorising
Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway. Most of the movie was standard
nutcase on the loose stuff, but every scene with Richard Jordan was
genuinely creepy because a) he was so restrained (no foaming at the
mouth and screaming) and b) you never, ever quite knew what he was
going to do next. At one point he was eating an apple while explaining
to a victim what was going to happen to her, and why, and he stopped to
offer her a piece of apple. Just your normal, run-of-the-mill, kind and
considerate serial killer. He made Freddy and Jason look like the Care
Bears.
Nick
PS I don't know what part he played in Gettysburg, except that he was
one of the Confederate officers. I'll dig up the copy of TIME and find
out.
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| 371.7 | | 45239::ALFORD | lying Shipwrecked and comatose... | Tue Nov 09 1993 07:28 | 2 |
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Was Red October his last film then ?
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| 371.8 | | 12658::bence | Life itself is the proper binge. | Tue Nov 09 1993 09:14 | 4 |
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Jordan played the Confederate officer Armistead, the one who lead
his men all the way across the field and over the wall in Pickett's
Charge. Armistead died of his wounds two days after the charge.
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| 371.9 | | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | are they playing our song? | Tue Nov 09 1993 09:20 | 5 |
| re .8, oh, the one who had a good friend on the Union side of the
battle. Hmmm. I can't remember ever having heard of him before.
Lorna
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| 371.10 | I must be slipping | 3270::AHERN | Dennis the Menace | Tue Nov 09 1993 10:02 | 6 |
| RE: .7 by 45239::ALFORD
>Was Red October his last film then ?
What role did he play in "The Hunt for Red October"?
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| 371.11 | or am I thinking of someone else... | 45239::ALFORD | lying Shipwrecked and comatose... | Tue Nov 09 1993 11:01 | 9 |
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Re: .10
> >Was Red October his last film then ?
> What role did he play in "The Hunt for Red October"?
He was the Government official who interfaced (brilliantly) with Joss Ackland
as the Russian Ambassador - who was also pretty good...
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| 371.12 | | SAMDHI::BAILLIE | | Tue Nov 16 1993 16:52 | 7 |
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Was he also in the T.V. miniseries "Of Cabbages and Kings" ??
I believe his name was Joseph Armagh in it. It was about Irish
immigrants coming to the U.S. in the late 1880 (I believe).
j.b.
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| 371.13 | | SAMDHI::BAILLIE | | Tue Nov 16 1993 16:53 | 5 |
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re: last Make that "Of Captains and Kings". Must be close to
feeding time.
j.b.
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| 371.14 | | 11578::MAXFIELD | Banal retentive | Wed Nov 17 1993 10:03 | 6 |
| .12 made me chuckle (don't take it personally, I mix titles all
the time!).
I think it was called simply "Captains and the Kings" (no "Of").
Richard
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| 371.15 | Bio (possibly incomplete) | QUARRY::reeves | Jon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler group | Fri Nov 19 1993 17:31 | 43 |
| Name: Jordan, Richard
Birth Date: 19 July 1938, New York NY
Death Date: 30 August 1993
* Actor. Died of brain tumor in Los Angeles.
Filmography as Actor:
Yakuza, The
Chato's Land (1971)
Lawman (1971)
Valdez Is Coming (1971) [R.L. Davis]
Trial of the Cantonsville Nine, The (1972)
Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (1973) [Dave Foley]
Rooster Cogburn (1975) [Hawk]
"Captains and the Kings" (1976) (mini) [Joseph Armagh]
Logan's Run (1976)
Defection of Simas Kudirka, The (1978) (TV)
Interiors (1978) [Frederick]
Miserables, Les (1978) (TV)
"French Atlantic Affair, The" (1979) (mini) [Julian Wunderlicht]
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A (1979)
(aka Big Scam, The)
(aka Mayfair Bank Caper, The)
Old Boyfriends (1979) [Jeff Turrin]
Raise the Titanic! (1980)
Bunker, The (1981) (TV)
Washington Mistress (1982) (TV)
Dune (1984) [Duncan Idaho]
Flash of Green, A (1984) [Elmo Bliss]
Mean Season, The (1985)
Men's Club, The (1986)
Solarbabies (1986) [Grock]
Secret of My Success, The (1987) [Howard Prescott]
Murder of Mary Phagan, The (1988) (TV) [Hugh Dorsey]
Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (1989) (TV)
Romero (1989)
Hunt for Red October, The (1990) [Jeffrey Pek]
Delusion (1991)
Shout (1991) [Eugene Benedict]
Heaven Is a Playground (1992) [Racine]
Primary Motive (1992) [Chris Poulas]
Timebomb (1992) [Col. Taylor]
Gettysburg (1993) [Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead]
Posse (1993) [Sheriff Bates]
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| 371.16 | Superb in "Gettysburg" | 5315::CLARK | | Fri Jul 01 1994 21:47 | 4 |
| His "Gettysburg" scene where he is reminiscing with Longstreet (Tom
Berenger) about his Union Army friends was, imo, the most emotional
scene of the whole film. Superb acting.
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