Keith Gordon

Keith Gordon (born February 3, 1961 in New York City ) is an American actor , director , producer and screenwriter .

Life and accomplishments

Keith's parents are mother Barbara , who worked as an actress, and father Mark Gordon , who was also an actor and stage director at the theater . Keith was in an atheistic - Jewish reared family and at age 12, after James Earl Jones in a Broadway production of Of Mice and Men ( Of Mice and Men had seen), to inspire actors to be. He made his debut in an episode of the television series Medical Center in 1975. His first film role he had as a group clown Doug in Jaws 2 ( Jaws 2 ). In his next film, All That Jazz ( All That Jazz ) by Bob Fosse , he made an excellent conversion as an actor of the young Joe Gideon . In Brian De Palma's thriller Dressed to Kill (1980) , he played one of the bigger roles alongside Michael Caine , Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen . In the 1983 horror film Christine, directed by John Carpenter , he played the lead role of Arnie Cunningham , owner of the murderous car.

Gordon largely left acting to make films himself; his directorial debut was the film drama The Chocolate War from 1988, for which he also wrote the screenplay and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in 1989 . For the script of the war drama Special Unit IQ (1992) he was nominated again for the Independent Spirit Award in 1993. He directed the comedy The Singing Detective (2003) with Robert Downey Jr. , Robin Wright Penn and Mel Gibson ; for this directorial work he was nominated in 2003 for a prize at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya .

Gordon has been married to actress Rachel Griffin since 1998.

Filmography (selection)

actor

• 1975: Medical Center (TV series)
• 1978: Jaws 2 (Jaws 2)
• 1979: Meeting Halfway (TV short film)
• 1979: Studs Lonigan (TV series)
• 1979: Behind the Spotlight (All That Jazz)
• 1980: Home Movies - How You Me, So I You (Home Movies)
• 1980: Dressed to Kill
• 1981: Death on Campus ( Kent State , TV movie)
• 1982: My Palikari / Silent Rebellion (TV movie)
• 1983: Christine (John Carpenter's Christine)
• 1984: Single seeks single ( single bars, single women , TV movie)
• 1985: Time of Retribution (The Legend of Billie Jean)
• 1986: Charlie Barnett's Terms of Enrollment (short film)
• 1986: Do it again, Dad (Back to School)
• 1986: Static
• 1986: Combat Academy ( Combat High , TV movie)
• 1989: Miami Vice (TV series)
• 1990: TV fever ( WIOU , TV series)
• 1993: Brooklyn Bridge (TV series)
• 1994: Hoggs' Heaven (TV short film)
• 1994: I Love Trouble - Nothing but trouble (I Love Trouble)
• 2001: Milo - The earth must wait (Delivering Milo)

Director

• 1988: The Chocolate War
• 1992: Special Unit IQ (A Midnight Clear)
• 1993: Wild Palms (TV series, episode Hours 3 and 5 )
• 1994: Homicide ( Homicide: Life on the Street , TV series, episode Presented / Faith Crisis )
• 1995: Perfect Crimes ( Fallen Angels , TV series, episode The Deadly Deal )
• 1996: Shadow of Guilt (Mother Night)
• 2000: Waking the Dead
• 2001: Gideon's Crossing (TV series)
• 2002: Shadow Realm (TV movie, episode Patterns )
• 2001/2002: Night Visions (TV series)
• 2003: The Singing Detective
• 2005: Dr. House ( House MD , TV series, episode Bad Floor )
• 2006-2013: Dexter (TV series, ten episodes)
• 2014: The Strain (TV series, episode Emma Lebt )
• 2013–2017: Homeland (TV series, five episodes)
• 2014–2017: The Leftovers (TV series, three episodes)
• 2017: Better Call Saul (TV series, episode Werbefuzzi )
• 2018: Legion (TV series, episode 19 )
• 2020: Dispatches from Elsewhere (TV series, episode The Inventor )

producer

• 1996: Shadow of Guilt (Mother Night)
• 2000: Waking the Dead

Screenwriter

• 1986: Static
• 1988: The Chocolate War
• 1992: Special Unit IQ (A Midnight Clear)

Web links

• Keith Gordon in the Internet Movie Database (English)