Richard Jordan

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Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan
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Born:
July 19, 1937
Died:
August 30, 1993
Age:
56
Birth Name:
Robert Anson Jordan Jr.
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Awards:
Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
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Some Facts
He was a longtime companion of actress Marcia Cross.
He directed fellow actor Raul Julia in "Macbeth" at the Public Theatre in New York.
Won an Obie for his acting in the Václav Havel play "Protest" in New York and later at Los Angeles' Taper, Too.
Was originally chosen to play Dr. Charles Nichols in The Fugitive (1993), but became too ill to work.
Grandson of Learned Hand. Stepson of Newbold Morris.
Personal Quotes
[T]he story of 'Macbeth' is about a man and woman who will do anything to be successful. As far as I'm concerned, it is particularly appropriate for this day and age. That sense of 'I gotta have it now' has been around forever, but we have now held it up as the thing to do, the way to be. And I'm sorry, but that is completely stupid, irrelevant and wrong.
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Grandfather [Judge Learned Hand] had a bad back, he'd lie on the floor to relieve the pain. I did my first Shakespeare sitting next to him on the floor, reading 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'King Lear,' his favorites plays, and all the time grandfather'd be correcting my speech, my accent, then interrupting to see if I understood all the words. I must have been about 12 or 13. It was an experience that has stayed with me all these years.
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The cardinal sin of a play is to sacrifice emotional truth to make a philosophical point.
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If you take it that the poet has words, the novelist a story, the painter his paints, then my material is emotions. Emotions are what I paint with.
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It's an odd feeling, and in an odd way I've never cared if I'm accepted or rejected. I just remind myself that if I'd wanted to make money I didn't have to go into this business. I did it because as preposterous as it sounds, I wanted to be an artist.
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