Keith Gordon

Known for DirectingBorn 1961-02-03 (age 65)New York City, New York, USA

Keith Gordon (born February 3, 1961) is an American actor and film director. He 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Hoggs' Heaven

Single Bars, Single Women

Better Call Saul

House

Jaws 2: A Portrait by Actor Keith Gordon

Fargo

Silent Rebellion

Dexter

Christine: Ignition

Christine: Fast and Furious

Homicide: Life on the Street

The Killing

Big John

The Leftovers

Brooklyn Bridge

Homeland

Rectify

Legion

Rubicon

Christine: Finish Line

The Strain

Dressed to Kill: An Appreciation by Keith Gordon

Miami Vice

All That Jazz

Masters of Sex

Waking the Dead

Nurse Jackie

Night Visions

The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'

The Returned

Dressed to Kill

The Bridge

Christine

Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'

Eli Roth's History of Horror

Mother Night

The Legend of Billie Jean

A Midnight Clear

Kingdom Come

Back to School

Wild Palms

Fallen Angels

The Chocolate War

Waking the Dead

30 Even Scarier Movie Moments

Hitchcocked!

Working with a Master: John Carpenter