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Jordan Charney is a Actor American born on 1 april 1937 at Brooklyn (USA)

Jordan Charney

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Nationality USA
Birth 1 april 1937 (87 years) at Brooklyn (USA)

Jordan Charney (born April 1, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American character actor.

Many of his earliest roles were on daytime television, with appearances in numerous soaps. Jordan created
the role of creepy Julian Dark in the early to mid-1960s on the CBS soap, The Secret Storm. He played Sam Lucas, a former convict who became a lawyer, in both Another World and its spin-off Somerset, playing the role from 1967 to 1974. He also appeared as Lt. Vince Wolek on One Life to Live (1975–1977). Other roles were on Love of Life and All My Children.

Charney portrayed newspaper editor Ted Bergman in the 1977 CBS series The Andros Targets. He had a recurring role as Frank Angelino, Jack Tripper's boss, on Three's Company (1981–1983). He is often cast as a judge, attorney, prison warden, or police officer. He has made appearances on Falcon Crest, Dynasty, Night Court and 100 Centre Street, among many other series. He can also be seen in the recurring role of Judge Donald Karan on Law & Order.

Charney has also appeared in such films as The Hospital, Ghostbusters, and Network.

Charney, who is married to television director Nancy Cooperstein, has most recently appeared Off-Broadway with Sabine Singh in The Gold Standard by Daniel Roberts.

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Edie Adams
Edie Adams
(1 films)
Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman
(1 films)
Amos Kollek
Amos Kollek
(1 films)
John Glover
John Glover
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Filmography of Jordan Charney (19 films)

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Actor

Queenie in Love, 1h43
Directed by Amos Kollek
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Victor Argo, Louise Lasser, Mark Margolis, Austin Pendleton, David Wike, Joey Dedio
Roles Father
Rating66% 3.3322953.3322953.3322953.3322953.332295
Queenie, 24 ans, vit à Manhattan et travaille auprès d'enfants en difficulté. Excentrique et déjantée, elle rêve d'être actrice.
When He's Not a Stranger, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Annabeth Gish, John Terlesky, Kevin Dillon, Kim Myers, Stephen Elliott, Paul Dooley
Roles Chancellor Hammond
Rating61% 3.095623.095623.095623.095623.09562
At Woodword University, a football-oriented California school, Lyn McKenna is raped and brutalized by her best friend's boyfriend, football player Ron Cooper. Lyn is hesitant to reveal this information as she fears that doing so will create a number of social issues and will simply worsen the aftermath of her experience. However, continued threats from Ron and his fellow football teammates lead Lyn into desperate action, and she requests that the school hold a disciplinary hearing against Ron, and ultimately demands that a district attorney prosecute.
The Revenge of Al Capone, 1h36
Directed by Michael Pressman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Keith Carradine, Ray Sharkey, Debrah Farentino, Charles Haid, Jayne Atkinson, Neil Giuntoli
Roles J. Edgar Hoover
Rating50% 2.541922.541922.541922.541922.54192
Following his imprisonment, Al Capone still continues to run his crime empire and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak.
David
David (1988)
, 2h
Directed by John Erman
Genres Drama
Actors Bernadette Peters, John Glover, Dan Lauria, George Grizzard, Matthew Lawrence, Georgann Johnson
Roles Judge
Rating69% 3.488593.488593.488593.488593.48859
The film is based on a book written by Marie Rothenberg and Mel White and relates the true story of David, a child who was burned over 90 percent of his body by his father. The parents were estranged and the non-custodial father, Charles Rothenberg, fled with David in tow to California, but quickly decided that he could not care for David alone. However, rather than return David to his mother's care, the elder Rothenberg used kerosene to set fire to his son while the boy slept in a hotel room. The movie shows how his mother, Marie Rothenberg, coped with the crisis, and the courage and determination of David.
My Little Girl, 1h58
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Stuart Masterson, James Earl Jones, Geraldine Page, Anne Meara, Peter Michael Goetz, Pamela Payton-Wright
Roles Dr. Gruner
Rating49% 2.4712452.4712452.4712452.4712452.471245
Franny Bettinger (Masterson) has had a privileged and wealthy upbringing. One summer she takes a job at a halfway house where she finds herself personally affected by the people she meets. Despite facing hostility due to her background, Bettinger becomes determined to teach the youngsters that they are important and can succeed in life. Unfortunately, she faces opposition from her parents and from her supervisor.
Kids Don't Tell, 1h41
Directed by Sam O'Steen
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Michael Ontkean, JoBeth Williams, Ari Meyers, Leo Rossi, Joaquin Phoenix, Jordan Charney
Roles Tatum
Rating64% 3.233323.233323.233323.233323.23332
Driven by a duty to his young daughter (Ari Meyers), filmmaker John Ryan (Michael Ontkean) agrees to produce a documentary on the sexual abuse of children in the American status quo. However, his loving wife Claudia (JoBeth Williams) becomes increasingly despondent and troubled as the filmmaker immerses himself further into the project. Ryan obtains participation from a host of experts in the field, including a Los Angeles police detective (Leo Rossi), who provides powerful insight into how the legal system fails, and a habitual molester (Jordan Charney) who tells of his technique for choosing and assaulting his victims.
Creator
Creator (1985)
, 1h44
Directed by Ivan Passer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romance
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, Mariel Hemingway, David Ogden Stiers, John Dehner
Roles Dr. Whitaker
Rating61% 3.0509853.0509853.0509853.0509853.050985
Dr. Harry Wolper is an eccentric medical professor teaching at a small southern California college who is obsessed with making a clone of his wife Lucy who died in childbirth 30 years earlier. Harry hires Boris Lafkin, a struggling pre-med student as his personal assistant to help him with his experiments by obtaining lab equipment and working in his backyard shed in exchange for which Harry gives Boris love life advice in courting an attractive coed named Barbara whom slowly becomes smitten with Boris. To continue his research into cloning, Harry meets and employes a young woman, named Meli, who practically moves in with him on an agreement to contribute her ovary sample as part of the cloning progress. Meli slowly falls for the much older Harry whom begins to question his ethics and vision of true love. Meanwhile, a rival of Harry's, fellow medical professor Dr. Sid Kuhlenbeck, tries to investigate and hinder Harry's cloning plans as part of a ploy to remove Harry from the university to take over Harry's lab for himself.
Do You Remember Love
Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Joanne Woodward, Richard Kiley, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jerry Hardin, Bill Henderson, Ron Rifkin
Roles Marvin Langdon
Rating72% 3.6177053.6177053.6177053.6177053.617705
Barbara Wyatt-Hollis wins the hearts of her academic colleagues with her quick wit and irresistible but definitely quirky personality. Though popular with her students, she might not have gotten tenure if she were not a truly distinguished poet. Barbara has won many prizes and now has been nominated for the Longfellow Award, given only once a decade.
Amos
Amos (1985)

Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Montgomery, Dorothy McGuire, Pat Morita, Ray Walston, James Sloyan
Roles Commissioner Bert Daniels
Rating68% 3.434873.434873.434873.434873.43487
Elizabeth Montgomery interprète Daisy Daws, l'inquiétante infirmière en chef d'une résidence pour personnes âgées, qui utilise des méthodes bien étranges afin de se débarrasser de certains résidents malades et alités. Elle fait régner la terreur jusqu'à ce qu'un nouveau venu, Amos Lasher (Kirk Douglas), un homme qui ne s'en laisse pas imposer, contrecarre les projets de Daisy...
Ghostbusters, 1h45
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Action
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson
Roles Dean Yager
Rating77% 3.896983.896983.896983.896983.89698
Misfit parapsychologists Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler are called to the New York Public Library after a series of apparent paranormal activities, where they encounter the ghost of a dead librarian but are frightened away when she transforms into a horrifying monster.
The Cartier Affair, 1h36
Directed by Rod Holcomb
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors David Hasselhoff, Joan Collins, Telly Savalas, Ed Lauter, Charles Napier, Jordan Charney
Roles Ben Foley
Rating49% 2.4760452.4760452.4760452.4760452.476045
Curt Taylor (David Hasselhoff) is released from California State Prison and to settle a debt he becomes a secretary for Cartier Rand (Joan Collins) as a form of amusing punishment, so that he can steal her jewels. During the course of his employment for Cartier, He falls in love with her, which complicates his primary mission to steal from her, Cartier reciprocates his feelings and the two begin an affair.
Amazons
Amazons (1984)
, 1h38
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Madeleine Stowe, Jennifer Warren, Tamara Dobson, Jack Scalia, Stella Stevens, William Schallert
Roles Congressman Harris Stowe
Rating44% 2.247092.247092.247092.247092.24709
Frances
Frances (1983)
, 2h20
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie
Actors Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Jonathan Banks, Jeffrey DeMunn, Allan Rich
Roles Harold Clurman
Rating71% 3.5972153.5972153.5972153.5972153.597215
Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Elena Farmer is a rebel from a young age, winning $100 in 1931 from The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for a high school essay called God Dies. In 1935, she becomes controversial again when she wins (and accepts) an all-expenses-paid trip to the USSR to visit the Moscow Art Theatre. Determined to become an actress, Frances is equally determined not to play the Hollywood game: she refuses to acquiesce to publicity stunts, and insists upon appearing on screen without makeup. She marries her first husband, Dwanye Steele, despite being advised not to, but cheats on him with alleged Communist Harry York on the night of her hometown's premiere of Come and Get It. Her defiance attracts the attention of Broadway playwright Clifford Odets, who convinces Frances that her future rests with the Group Theatre.