Filmmaker Keith Gordon has directed the features The Chocolate War (1988), A Midnight Clear (1992), Mother Night (1996), Waking the Dead (2000), and The Singing Detective (2003), along with multiple episodes of the series Fargo, Homeland, The Leftovers, The Killing, and Dexter, among others. In his former life as an actor he appeared in All That Jazz (1979), Dressed to Kill (1980), Christine (1983), and Back to School (1986).