Keith Gordon

Keith Gordon is an American actor and film director Gordon was born in New York City the son of Mark an actor and stage director and Barbara Gordon He grew up in an atheist Jewish family Gordon was inspired to become an actor at the age of twelve after seeing James Earl Jones in a Broadway production of Of Mice and Men As an actor Gordons first feature film role was that of class clown Doug in Jaws 2 the 1978 sequel to the blockbuster hit Jaws In 1979 Gordon appeared in Bob Fosses semiautobiographical All That Jazz as the teenage version of the films protagonist Joe Gideon played by Gordons Jaws 2 costar Roy Scheider Gordon then appeared in two films by Brian De Palma as a film student in Home Movies 1979 and in the 1980 erotic thriller Dressed to Kill as the son of Angie Dickinsons character Gordon played Arnie Cunningham the main character who buys the titular car Christine in the 1983 horror film Christine directed by John Carpenter from the novel by Stephen King In the 1985 cult film The Legend of Billie Jean Gordon played Lloyd Muldaur the son of a District Attorney who aspires to be Attorney General He was in the 1986 Mark Romanek film Static and he wrote the screenplay In the 1986 comedy movie Back to School Gordon played Jason Melon the son of Rodney Dangerfields character4 In most of these films he played a nerd He was named number 1 in Cinematicals Top 7 Most Convincing Nerds His most recent onscreen film appearance was in 2001 in the movie Delivering Milo Gordon left acting for directing making his debut in 1988 with the movie The Chocolate War about a student who rebels against the rigid hierarchies in his Catholic school His other films include the 1992 antiwar film A Midnight Clear about a group of American soldiers in the Ardennes just before and during the Battle of the Bulge as well as Mother Night adapted from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut Waking the Dead and the film The Singing Detective He also directed some of the miniseries Wild Palms and appeared in the 2006 Iraq War documentary Whose War His directing credits for television include Homicide Life on the Street Gideons Crossing Dexter The Bridge House and the second and third seasons of Fargo Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith Gordon licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia