Keith Gordon

Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA
Birthday: February 3, 1961

This former juvenile lead has already garnered a reputation as a capable director of small, serious films with only four features to his credit (as of 1999). As a performer, Gordon was best known as the quick-witted young hero of Brian De Palma's flashy Hitchcockian thriller "Dressed to Kill" (1980). He began performing in the theater, moved on to TV-movies and miniseries and soon graduated to features. He played the young Roy Scheider/Joe Gideon/Bob Fosse in "All That Jazz" (1979); the nerd-from-Hell owner of the title …more

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Credits

Actor

Hogg's Heaven
William Hogg
Combat High
Max Mendelsson
My Palikari
Chris
Single Bars, Single Women
Lionel
Kent State
Jeff Miller

Director

Wild Palms
Director
Gideon's Crossing
Director
Night Visions
Director ("The Bokor")
Night Visions
Director ( The Bokor )
Homicide: Life on the Street
Director

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Career Milestones

1999
Produced and directed "Waking the Dead"; also penned the screenplay but lost an arbitration with the Writers Guild which assigned it to the first screenwriter on the project
1996
Helmed "Mother Night"; also produced
1992
Wrote and directed second feature, "A Midnight Clear"
1988
Made feature debut as writer-director with "The Chocolate War"
1986
Co-produced, co-wrote screenplay (with director Mark Romanek) and starred in "Static"