Gordon, Mark 1956–

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GORDON, Mark 1956


PERSONAL


Born October 10, 1956. Education: New York University, degree in film.


Addresses: Office Stratus Film Co., 10850 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024; Mark Gordon Co., 12200 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 259, Los Angeles, CA 90064. Agent Chris Silbermann, Broder/Webb/Chervin/Silbermann, 9242 Beverly Blvd., Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.


Career: Producer and director. Mutual Film Co., partner (with Gary Levinsohn); Stratus Film Co., Los Angeles, partner; Mark Gordon Co., Los Angeles, principal. Producer and director of commercials and promotions for the MTV network.

Awards, Honors: Daytime Emmy Award, outstanding children's special (with Frank Doelger and Alan C. Blomquist), 1986, for The War between the Classes ; Academy Award nomination, best picture, Film Award nomination, best film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Satellite Award nomination, best motion picture drama, International Press Academy, and Golden Laurel Award, motion picture producer of the year, Producers Guild of America, all (with Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, and Gary Levinsohn) 1999, for Saving Private Ryan; Children's Award, best children's film (with others), British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1999, for Paulie.


CREDITS

Film Executive Producer:

Fly by Night, Arrow Releasing, 1993.

The Relic (also known as Das Relikt ), PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1997.

Speed 2: Cruise Control, Twentieth CenturyFox, 1997.

The Jackal (also known as Le chacal and Der Schakal ), Universal, 1997.

A Simple Plan (also known as Ein Einfacher Plan and Un plan simple ), Paramount, 1998.

Black Dog, MCA/Universal, 1998.

Virus, MCA/Universal, 1999.

All the Rage (also known as It's the Rage ), Silver Nitrate Films, 2000.

Isn't She Great (also known as Ist sie nicht grossartig? ), MCA/Universal, 2000.

Self Storage (short film), Wander Bird Films, 2002.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (also known as The League and LXG ), Twentieth CenturyFox, 2003.

Laws of Attraction, New Line Cinema, 2004.

Film Producer:

(With Chris Meledandri) Brothers in Arms, Guild Home Video, 1989.

(With Meledandri) Opportunity Knocks, Universal, 1990.

Traces of Red, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1992.

(With John Bard Manulis) Swing Kids, Buena Vista, 1993.

Speed, Twentieth CenturyFox, 1994.

(With Meledandri and James G. Robinson) Trial by Jury, Warner Bros., 1994.

A Pyromaniac's Love Story (also known as Burning Love ), Buena Vista, 1995.

Broken Arrow, Twentieth CenturyFox, 1996.

Hard Rain (also known as Flood and Pluie d'enfer ), Paramount, 1998.

Paulie, DreamWorks, 1998.

(With Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, and Gary Levinsohn) Saving Private Ryan, DreamWorks/Paramount, 1998.

The Patriot (also known as Der Patriot ), Columbia, 2000.

The Day after Tomorrow, Twentieth CenturyFox, 2004.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

Lightning Field (also known as The Lighting Incident ), 1991.

Love Kills, 1991.

The Man Who Wouldn't Die, 1995.

The Ripper, 1997.

And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself, PBS, 2003.

Footsteps, CBS, 2003.

Television Producer; Movies:

Out of Step, CBS, 1983.

One Too Many, 1983.

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days, PBS, 1985.

Double Switch, The Disney Channel, 1987.

Sawdust, CBC (Canada), 1988.

Television Producer; Specials:

(With Frank Doelger and Alan C. Blomquist) The War between the Classes, CBS, 1985.

(And director) Children Remember the Holocaust (also known as Nothing But Sun ), 1995.

Television Work; Episodic:

Director of episodes of the series Good Time Harry.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Second paramedic, One Too Many, 1983.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The Making of "Speed, " 1994.

Stage Work:

Produced The Buddy System, Circle in the Square Downtown, New York City.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Himself, True Patriots, Columbia TriStar, 2000.