Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan ( born November 25, 1947 in Paris, France ) is an American film 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 play The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, in which Elia Kazan directed. He studied at the University of Chicago and at the Film Faculty of the New York University.
His first duties as a director received Kaplan in the early 1970s by 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 film Indicted from 1988 ( with Jodie Foster), for which he was nominated for the Golden Bear award. Other films he directed were, inter alia, 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 ).
Since the late 1990s, Kaplan works almost exclusively for television and was among other things a director and producer on numerous episodes of ER - The ER, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001.