Keith Gordon

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1961-02-03 (63 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Keith Gordon

Biography

Keith Gordon is an American actor and film director. Gordon was born in New York City, the son of Mark, an actor and stage director, and Barbara Gordon. He grew up in an atheist Jewish family. Gordon was inspired to become an actor at the age of twelve, after seeing James Earl Jones in a Broadway production of Of Mice and Men. As an actor, Gordon's first feature film role was that of class clown Doug in Jaws 2 (the 1978 sequel to the blockbuster hit Jaws). In 1979 Gordon appeared in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical All That Jazz as the teenage version of the film's protagonist Joe Gideon (played by Gordon's Jaws 2 co-star Roy Scheider). Gordon then appeared in two films by Brian De Palma: as a film student in Home Movies (1979) and in the 1980 erotic thriller Dressed to Kill as the son of Angie Dickinson's character. Gordon played Arnie Cunningham, the main character (who buys the titular car Christine), in the 1983 horror film Christine, directed by John Carpenter from the novel by Stephen King. In the 1985 cult film The Legend of Billie Jean Gordon played Lloyd Muldaur, the son of a District Attorney who aspires to be Attorney General. He was in the 1986 Mark Romanek film Static, and he wrote the screenplay. In the 1986 comedy movie Back to School, Gordon played Jason Melon, the son of Rodney Dangerfield's character.[4] In most of these films, he played a nerd. He was named number 1 in Cinematicals' Top 7 Most Convincing Nerds. His most recent onscreen film appearance was in 2001, in the movie Delivering Milo. Gordon left acting for directing, making his debut in 1988 with the movie The Chocolate War, about a student who rebels against the rigid hierarchies in his Catholic school. His other films include the 1992 anti-war film A Midnight Clear, about a group of American soldiers in the Ardennes just before and during the Battle of the Bulge, as well as Mother Night (adapted from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut), Waking the Dead, and the film The Singing Detective. He also directed some of the mini-series Wild Palms and appeared in the 2006 Iraq War documentary Whose War?. His directing credits for television include Homicide: Life on the Street, Gideon's Crossing, Dexter, The Bridge, House and the second and third seasons of Fargo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith Gordon licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

2017
Legion

as Director

2015
Better Call Saul

as Director

2015
The Returned

as Director

2014
The Leftovers

as Director

2014
Fargo

as Director

2014
The Strain

as Director

2013
The Bridge

as Director

2013
Masters of Sex

as Director

2013
Rectify

as Director

2011
The Killing

as Director

2011
Homeland

as Director

2010
Rubicon

as Director

2006
Dexter

as Director

2004
House

as Director

2003
2002
Shadow Realm

as Director

2001
Night Visions

as Director

2000
Waking the Dead

as Director

1996
Mother Night

as Director

1993
Wild Palms

as Director

1993
Fallen Angels

as Director

1992
A Midnight Clear

as Director

1988
The Chocolate War

as Director

Actor

2013
The Bridge

as Taxidermist

2012
Kingdom Come

as Self

2006
Big John

as Self

2006
Hitchcocked!

as Self

2006
Dexter

as Kyle Butler #2

2001
Delivering Milo

as Dr. Baumgartner

1994
1990
1986
Combat Academy

as Maxwell 'Max' Mendelsson

1986
Back to School

as Jason Melon

1986
Static

as Ernie Blick

1985
The Legend of Billie Jean

as Lloyd Muldaur

1983
Christine

as Arnie Cunningham

1982
1981
Kent State

as Jeff Miller

1980
Dressed to Kill

as Peter Miller

1980
Home Movies

as Denis Byrd

1979
All That Jazz

as Young Joe

1978
Jaws 2

as Doug Fetterman

Producer

2015
The Returned

as Executive Producer

2013
Rectify

as Executive Producer

2000
Waking the Dead

as Producer

1996
Mother Night

as Producer

Writer

1992
A Midnight Clear

as Screenplay

1988
1986
Static

as Writer

Crew

2014
Fargo

as Thanks

Creator

2001
Waking the Dead

as Creator