Jonathan Kaplan (Director)

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Jonathan Kaplan (born November 25, 1947 in Paris ) is an American director .

Life

Kaplan's father was the composer Sol Kaplan , who worked for the film industry; his mother Frances Heflin (1920-1994) was an actress . As a child, Kaplan played in the Broadway - theater play The Dark at the Top of the Stairs , in which Elia Kazan directed. He studied at the University of Chicago and the New York University Film School .

Kaplan received his first duties as a director in the early 1970s from producer Roger Corman . His early works include blaxploitation films such as The Slams and Truck Turner, as well as the cult film Over the Edge (1979), in which Vincent Spano and Matt Dillon had their first roles.

Kaplan directed the 1988 film Accused (starring Jodie Foster ), for which he was nominated for the Golden Bear Award. Other films he has directed include Bad Girls from 1994 (with Madeleine Stowe , Mary Stuart Masterson , Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore ) and Brokedown Palace from 1999 (with Claire Danes , Kate Beckinsale and Bill Pullman ).

Kaplan has worked almost exclusively for television since the late 1990s and has directed and produced numerous episodes of Emergency Room , for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1972: Night Call Nurses
  • 1973: The Student Teachers
  • 1973: The Slams
  • 1974: Chicago Poker (Truck Turner)
  • 1975: Street of Violence (White Line Fever)
  • 1977: Mister Billion (Mr. Billion)
  • 1979: Anger in the Belly (Over the Edge)
  • 1979: The Eleventh Victim ( 11th Victim , TV movie)
  • 1980: The Hustler of Muscle Beach (TV movie)
  • 1981: A Robber with a Heart ( The Gentleman Bandit , TV movie)
  • 1983: ... and when the last tire bursts (Heart Like a Wheel)
  • 1983: Operation Osaka ( Girls of the White Orchid , TV movie)
  • 1987: Project X
  • 1988: Accused (The Accused)
  • 1988: Second Hand Family (Immediate Family)
  • 1991: Unlawful Entry (Unlawful Entry)
  • 1992: Love Field (Love Field)
  • 1994: Bad Girls
  • 1994: On Probation ( Rebel Highway: Reform School Girl , TV movie)
  • 1996: Cold Blood ( In Cold Blood , TV movie)
  • 1997–2009: Emergency Room ( ER , TV series, 40 episodes)
  • 1999: Brokedown Palace
  • 2005–2012: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series, eight episodes)
  • 2006–2009: Without a Trace disappeared without a trace ( Without a Trace , television series, nine episodes)
  • 2011: A Gifted Man (TV series, two episodes)

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