Mark Gordon (producer)
Mark Gordon | |
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| Born | October 10, 1956 |
| Occupation(s) | film producer, television producer |
Mark Gordon (born October 10, 1956) is an American television and film producer.
Life and career
Gordon was born in Newport News, Virginia. He is an award-winning producer with more than 70 motion picture and television projects to his credit.
Gordon’s most recent projects include 2012, which grossed over $750 million worldwide, Duncan Jones’ science fiction thriller Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and The Messenger, which garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. Upcoming projects include The Details with Tobey Maguire and Laura Linney, and Bill Condon’s Richard Pryor biopic for Sony.
Among Gordon’s motion picture credits as producer and financier are: Saving Private Ryan, The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot, Wonder Boys, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Talk to Me, The Painted Veil and Speed.
In television, Gordon serves as executive producer on the ABC series Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, as well as the CBS drama Criminal Minds and Lifetime’s Army Wives. Gordon has several TV projects in the works, including a spin-off of both Criminal Minds and Army Wives, as well as a comedy pilot at ABC entitled It Takes a Village.
Gordon has also produced more than a dozen long form television projects, including HBO’s Emmy winning Warm Springs as well as And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself. He also directed and produced the Emmy-nominated Children Remember the Holocaust.
Gordon is a five time Emmy nominee with two wins. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards with two wins. He earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations and won a Golden Globe for Best Picture as producer of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.
Gordon’s first producing effort was the Off-Broadway production of The Buddy System at Circle in the Square downtown. He will produce the upcoming film adaption of the Dark Horse comic The Strange Case of Hyde.[1]
Personal life
Gordon is the current Vice President of the Producers Guild of America and serves on the board of the Virginia Film Festival, The Archer School for Girls, Chrysalis and The Motion Picture and Television Fund. He is the former chairman of Teach for America Los Angeles and a former board member of The Holocaust Documentation and Information Center and The UCLA Lab School.
He is a graduate of the New York University Film School.
Gordon married in 1997 with Karen Villeneuve, a Canadian social entrepreneur and former model. The couple however divorced in 2003.[2] Together they have two daughters, aged 10 and 12.[3]
Awards/nominations
He has been nominated for an Academy Award for Saving Private Ryan. Other awards include BAFTA Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, Emmy Award, Leo Award, Producers Guild of America Award and the Golden Satellite Award.
Credits
- How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (TV)
- ABC Afterschool Special (producer) (TV) (2 episodes, 1984–1985)
- CBS Schoolbreak Special (producer) (TV) (2 episodes, 1985–1995)
- CBS Summer Playhouse (producer) (TV) (1 episode, 1987)
- Double Switch (1987) (TV) (producer)
- Brothers in Arms
- Opportunity Knocks (1990) (producer)
- Love Kills (1991) (TV) (executive producer)
- Lightning Field (1991) (TV) (executive producer)
- Traces of Red (1992) (producer)
- Swing Kids (1993) (producer)
- Fly by Night (1993) (producer)
- Trial by Jury (1994) (producer)
- The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1994) (TV) (executive producer)
- Speed (1994/I) (producer)
- A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995) (producer)
- Broken Arrow (1996) (producer)
- The Ripper (1997) (TV) (executive producer)
- The Jackal (1997) (executive producer)
- Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) (executive producer)
- The Relic (1997) (executive producer)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) (producer)
- Black Dog (1998) (executive producer)
- Paulie (1998) (producer)
- Hard Rain (1998) (producer)
- A Simple Plan
- All the Rage (1999) (executive producer)
- Virus (1999) (executive producer)
- Isn't She Great
- The Patriot (2000) (producer)
- Self Storage (2002) (executive producer)
- Footsteps (2003) (TV) (executive producer)
- And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) (TV) (executive producer)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) (executive producer)
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004) (producer)
- Laws of Attraction (2004) (executive producer)
- Warm Springs (2005) (TV) (executive producer)
- Hostage (2005/I) (producer)
- Life of the Party (2005) (executive producer)
- The Matador (2005) (executive producer)
- LAX
- Casanova
- Prime (2005) (executive producer)
- Winter Passing (2005) (executive producer)
- The Painted Veil (2006) (executive producer)
- The Hoax (2006) (producer)
- A House Divided (2006) (TV) (executive producer)
- Talk to Me (2007) (producer)
- Army Wives
- 10,000 B.C. (2008) (producer)
- Heart of a Dragon (2008) (executive producer)
- Reaper
- Private Practice
- Criminal Minds (TV)
- Grey's Anatomy (TV)
- The Messenger (2009) (producer)
- 12 Rounds (2009) (producer)
- Bunny Lake Is Missing
- Killing Pablo
- Don't Look Now
- 2012
References
- ^ "Jekyll-Hyde comic to be adapted for big screen (exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Adopting a Crusade - website Forbes
- ^ Diana's Brother Ties The Knot For Third Time - website Sky News
External links
- Mark Gordon at IMDb