Dan Gordon was conceived in Alberta Canada, born in Los Angeles California and raised there and in the Valley of Jezreel in Israel.
His screen credits include" The Hurricane" (Academy Award nomination - Denzel Washington), "Wyatt Earp" ( Kevin Costner), "Murder In The First" ( Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon), "The Assignment" (Sir Ben Kingsley , Donald Sutherland) , and the upcoming "George Foreman Story" ( Sony). He has over two hundred hours of television credits and his plays, performed on Broadway and in The West End include the stage adaptations of "Rain Man," "Terms of Endearment," "Murder in The First," and Best Broadway play nominee ( Outer Circle Critics Award) "Irena’s Vow."
For City of 72 Names, he has drawn extensively on his own 45-year career as a soldier and officer in the IDF, serving in six wars beginning with the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He has served as a sniper/ squad leader in the armored infantry, as well as in the Israel Air Force, Military Spokesperson Brigade and most recently, the elite Givati Infantry Brigade.
He has also drawn extensively on his own family history and lore. On his mother’s side, Gordon is a descendant of the Poliakov family which was one of the only Russian Jewish noble families and which also boasted the reputed Latvian Jewish gangster and horse thief, Srulik Yankel Poliakov, Who met his demise at the end if a rope.
On his Father's side Gordon’s relations included Marc Chagall, Der Blinder Rebbe, Reb Yisrael Ben Shmuel Dov Kahan, Who became one of Jerusalem’s most famous rabbis in the late 1800’s, Haiman Cohen, Western Albertan pioneering Jewish Cattle Rancher, and reputed relation of Chinese General Morris “ Two Gun” Cohen.as well as Israel's second Prime Minister, Moshe Sharett ( née Shertok). Gordon’s foster father, Chanan Greenwald was a founding soldier of the Palestinian Buffs Unit and The Jewish Brigade of the British army in WWII. He has drawn heavily on his families’ personal stories in the writing of this epic drama.
