Jordan also continued on the stage, joining Ralph Waite in the L.A. Actors' Theatre. He wrote, directed and performed in plays such as "Venus of Menschen Falls" (1978). In 1976, he starred as Joseph Armagh, an Irish immigrant who fights his way to power and wealth but loses his soul along the way, in the television miniseries "Captains and the Kings". Jordan earned a Golden Globe award, and an Emmy nomination for the production. In the 1980s, Jordan performed in films including "Raise the Titanic" (1980), "Flash of Green" (1984), "Dune" (1984), "The Mean Season" (1985) and "The Secret of My Success" (1987). He co-starred in an acclaimed television production of "The Bunker" (1981), playing Albert Speer to Anthony Hopkins's Adolf Hitler. In 10 episodes of the television series "The Equalizer" (1987–1988), he helped fill in while the star Edward Woodward recovered from a heart attack. On stage, he won an Obie award for his appearance in New York in the Czech playwright Václav Havel's "A Private View" (1983) and an L.A. Drama Critics' Award for directing "Largo Desolato" (1987), another Havel play. In "Romero" (1989), Jordan played Romero's friend, Father Rutilio Grande.