Beginning in 1970, Jordan turned from television to feature film work. He co-starred in "Lawman" (1971) and "Valdez Is Coming" (1971) with Burt Lancaster, and appeared opposite Robert Mitchum twice: in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (1973), as the informant-Coyle's handler, a pragmatic U.S. Treasury agent; and in "The Yakuza" (1975) as the bodyguard of Mitchum's friend, George Tanner. He played a host of villains and mixed good guy-villains in films such as the western "Rooster Cogburn" (1975), sci-fi adventure "Logan's Run" (1976), and the Woody Allen-directed drama "Interiors" (1978). There was also the occasional "good guy" as in "Old Boyfriends" (1979), in which he played the father of his own daughter, Nina.