As a master storyteller, Dan Gordon creates indelible characters and relationships, which have afforded actors the opportunity to play some of their most unforgettable roles. From Kevin Bacon’s haunting portrayal of Henry Young in Murder in the First to Kevin Costner’s darkly heroic lawman in Wyatt Earp, from Aiden Quinn’s conflicted spy in The Assignment to Denzel Washington’s towering portrayal of Rubin Carter in The Hurricane, Gordon’s characters are marked by their struggle to maintain their humanity in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Dan Gordon graduated UCLA as a film and television major. In the recent fighting between Israel and Hezballah, he served as a Captain (Res.) in the Israel Defense Forces Military Spokesperson Unit. His film credits include The Hurricane which starred Denzel Washington, Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner, The Assignment with Sir Ben Kingsley, Murder in The First with Kevin Bacon and the upcoming Mafia Cop for Mandalay Pictures and Universal Studios. In addition his stage adaptations of Terms of Endearment and of The Rainman will both debut in London’s West End in 2007 He is the founder of the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in Sedona and an LAPD reserve police officer for the past fifteen years and a member of both the WGA and DGA of America. He is, in addition, the author of five novels.

Blog Entries by Dan Gordon

Why I Voted for You

2 Comments | Posted November 5, 2008 | 05:05 PM (EST)


Dear Mr. President-Elect,

I saw it land on you tonight. In the midst of your historic hour of triumph and transcendence the awful burden that will now be yours. I am a sixty one year-old white Republican who last voted for a Democrat in 1968, the first...

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The Independent State of West Palestine

Posted June 18, 2007 | 03:03 PM (EST)


In a recent article, former ambassador Dennis Ross, reported on several days of discussions he recently held in Ramallah and Jerusalem. He states: "I was struck by the nature of the debate I witnessed in both places. To my surprise it wasn't about the stalemate in the peace process or...

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The History of the Jews According to Carter

Posted January 24, 2007 | 04:10 PM (EST)


A Point by Point Rebuttal of the Omissions, Myths, Misrepresentations and Outright Lies of Jimmy Carter

Ambassador Dennis Ross has stated in interviews as a way of explaining why he took issue with Jimmy Carter's book, "Palestine, Peace not Apartheid," that while people were entitled to their own opinions they...

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Transplanting the Heart of the Matter

Posted January 8, 2007 | 02:19 PM (EST)


It has become an axiomatic belief that solving the Israeli Palestinian conflict is central to resolving numerous other problems in the Middle East. That claim may or may not be an exaggerated one. But there is no doubt that certain aspects of the Israeli Palestinian conflict have become rallying cries...

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The Promise of Peace in our Time

Posted December 11, 2006 | 07:45 PM (EST)


The Iraq Study Group on the face of it seems to be a well meaning enough document put together buy a well meaning enough group of elder statespersons. That's what it seems to be. But that's not what it is. One of the Study Group's co-chairs, Lee Hamilton, is...

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