Gregor Jordan

Gregor Jordan (born 1966) is an Australian film director and writer. Jordan's films include Two Hands (1999), Buffalo Soldiers (2001), and Ned Kelly (2003). He has also directed the concert video These Days: Live in Concert (2004) by Australian rock band Powderfinger. His film Two Hands won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and Best Screenplay in 1999. He has most recently directed a film version of The Informers written by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki and the thriller Unthinkable starring Samuel L. Jackson. He has finished production on a live concert DVD of Powderfinger's final concert tour 'Sunsets' and is in production on a documentary about Ian Thorpe's return to professional swimming.He is also developing several feature films as well as an interactive film making website called smashcut.com. Gregor is married to a New Zealand actress Simone Kessell. They have one son, Jack, who was born in January 2005 in Los Angeles. Prior to making films Gregor Jordan played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice for Shakespeare By The Sea (Australia).

Works

E Street

An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.

Release Date1989-01-24

Charactersd Policeman

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Life of a Cantipanican

Zog the Alien goes about his daily routine ... until it is rudely interrupted by an unwanted guest.

Release Date2019-01-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd The Monster

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

On January 22, 2008, the entertainment world was rocked by news that one of its brightest young stars had unexpectedly died. This film is a commemorative special dedicated to the life and works of this complex and unique talent who died before his time.

Release Date2009-06-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Suits

While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory.

Release Date2011-06-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count5305

Old School

Ted McCabe, a retired cop, and Lennie Cahill a retired crim, get together to solve crimes, unravel scams and make some cash, while avoiding the wrath of the police and the underworld.

Release Date2014-05-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count9

North Shore

When the 19-year-old daughter of a UK politician is found dead in Sydney Harbour, cultures clash as a British and an Australian detective team up to solve a complex murder mystery. But this international investigation will expose more than murder, as the two detectives begin to uncover a conspiracy with political consequences.

Release Date2023-05-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count18

Australian Gangster

In the Sydney underworld, the lives of gangsters, the Instagram generation, and the glamorous social elite intertwine.

Release Date2021-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

Human Error

Follows Detective Holly O'Rourke and her homicide team as a seemingly open-and-shut murder investigation threatens to destroy her career, her family, and her faith in justice. As she scrambles to redeem her personal and professional reputation, Holly and her team uncover a criminal conspiracy that will change their lives forever.

Release Date2024-09-11

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Raw FM

Series revolving around community youth radio station 99.9 Raw FM and the young people who run it.

Release Date1997-11-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Unthinkable

The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.

Release Date2010-06-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1267

The Informers

A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.

Release Date2008-11-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count235

Ned Kelly

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.

Release Date2003-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count370

Two Hands

A 19-year-old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile, two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.

Release Date1999-07-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count143

Buffalo Soldiers

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Release Date2002-10-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count325

Dirt Music

Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.

Release Date2020-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count54

Twisted

Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his identity... a bored housewife thinks she's found romance... a conman thinks he's made his mark... and a hired killer thinks she's ready to retire. Unfortunately for all of them, they soon discover that there's nothing like reality to get in the way of an otherwise perfectly twisted perspective. Things are never quite that simple.

Release Date1997-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Films that Sing

A late-night television show, 'Films that Sing' analyses the life and filmography of a critically acclaimed young filmmaker, Luciano Broccolini, after his tragic passing.

Release Date2022-11-30

DepartmentSound

JobSound Director

Vote Count1

Swinger

The Cannes Film Festival and Tropfest winning short film directed by Gregor Jordan.

Release Date1995-05-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Powderfinger: These Days - Live in Concert

These Days: Live in Concert is a live album by Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger. The album consists of songs performed by Powderfinger in concerts at Sydney Entertainment Centre, and Fox Studios in Sydney. Most of the songs performed are from Powderfinger's prior studio album; Vulture Street.

Release Date2004-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Powderfinger: Sunsets Farewell Tour

Filmed at various concerts throughout Powderfinger's final Australian tour.

Release Date2010-12-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2