Keith Gordon (born February 3, 1961 in New York City) is an American actor and film director. His parents are actor Mark Gordon and actress Barbara Gordon. February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...

As an actor, Gordon's first feature film was Jaws 2, as the class clown Doug. His film credits include Dressed to Kill, Christine, The Legend of Billie Jean, and his well-known role in the 1986 comedy movie Back to School as Jason Melon. His final onscreen film appearance was in 2001, in the movie Delivering Milo. Jaws 2 (1978) is the first sequel to Jaws. ... Dressed to Kill is a 1980 horror film written and directed by Brian de Palma. ... Christine (also known as John Carpenters Christine) is adaptated from a novel written by Stephen King, and is a horror film about a supernaturally malevolent automobile and its effects on the teenager who owns it. ... The Legend of Billie Jean is a 1985 drama film, directed by Matthew Robbins. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Back to School is a 1986 movie starring Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, William Zabka, Sam Kinison, and Robert Downey, Jr. ... For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey // August 8 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman get divorced. ... Delivering Milo was a 2001 movie by David Hubbard. ...

Gordon left acting for directing, making his debut in 1988 with the movie The Chocolate War. His other films include Waking the Dead, Mother Night and the 2003 Mel Gibson film The Singing Detective. He also directed some of the mini-series Wild Palms and appeared in the 2006 Iraq War documentary Whose War?. // Michael Jacksons first film was Moonwalker Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Bob Hoskins Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy Big, starring Tom Hanks Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Crocodile Dundee II Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis The Naked Gun... Waking the Dead is a 2000 film directed by Keith Gordon. ... Mother Night is a 1996 film based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut of the same name. ... // February 24 - The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 Cesar Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Music and Best Cinematography. ... Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American born Australian actor, director, and producer. ... The Singing Detective was a 2003 film based on the BBC mini-series of the same name, a work by Dennis Potter. ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Wild Palms is a six hour mini-series, which first aired in 1993 on the ABC Network in the United States. ...

His directing credits for television include Homicide: Life on the Street, Gideon's Crossing, Dexter and House Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Gideons Crossing was a US medical drama loosely-based on the experience of the real life Dr. Jerome Groupman. ... Dexter is a Showtime original television series starring Michael C. Hall as serial killer Dexter Morgan, who works as a forensics analyst specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the Miami-Dade Police Department. ... House, also known as House M.D., is a critically-acclaimed American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by film director Bryan Singer. ...

External links

• Keith Gordon at the Internet Movie Database
• MovieMaker magazine intervew
• Senses of Cinema two-part interview
• Kittenpants.org interview