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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American film director (born 1947)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the film producer and director. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Kaplan_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Jonathan Kaplan (disambiguation)">Jonathan Kaplan (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Jonathan Kaplan</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1947-11-25</span>) </span>November 25, 1947<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 77)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Film producer, director</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1972–present</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Jonathan Kaplan</b> (born November 25, 1947) is an American <a href="/wiki/Film_producer" title="Film producer">film producer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Film_director" title="Film director">director</a>. His film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Accused_(1988_film)" title="The Accused (1988 film)">The Accused</a></i> (1988) earned actress <a href="/wiki/Jodie_Foster" title="Jodie Foster">Jodie Foster</a> the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Oscar</a> for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Academy Award for Best Actress">Best Actress</a> and was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Bear" title="Golden Bear">Golden Bear</a> at the <a href="/wiki/39th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival" title="39th Berlin International Film Festival">39th Berlin International Film Festival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Berlinale_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berlinale-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His film <i><a href="/wiki/Love_Field_(film)" title="Love Field (film)">Love Field</a></i> (1992) earned actress <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Pfeiffer" title="Michelle Pfeiffer">Michelle Pfeiffer</a> an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the <a href="/wiki/43rd_Berlin_International_Film_Festival" title="43rd Berlin International Film Festival">43rd Berlin International Film Festival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Berlinale93_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berlinale93-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kaplan received five Emmy nominations for his roles directing and producing the television series <i><a href="/wiki/ER_(TV_series)" title="ER (TV series)">ER</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Kaplan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in Paris, France,<sup id="cite_ref-sight_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sight-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kaplan is the son of film composer <a href="/wiki/Sol_Kaplan" title="Sol Kaplan">Sol Kaplan</a> and actress <a href="/wiki/Frances_Heflin" title="Frances Heflin">Frances Heflin</a>, the nephew of actor <a href="/wiki/Van_Heflin" title="Van Heflin">Van Heflin</a>, and the brother of actresses Nora Heflin and Mady Kaplan.<sup id="cite_ref-imdb_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-imdb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kaplan lived in Hollywood until 1954, when his father had to move to New York after being blacklisted.<sup id="cite_ref-sight_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sight-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kaplan started his career as a child actor in the Broadway production of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dark_at_the_Top_of_the_Stairs" title="The Dark at the Top of the Stairs">The Dark at the Top of the Stairs</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was in a 1964 off-Broadway production <i>Rumplestillskin</i> by <a href="/wiki/Elaine_May" title="Elaine May">Elaine May</a>. </p><p>He earned a BA at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> before studying film at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>, where he was tutored by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> and made an award-winning short film, <i>Stanley</i> (1965).<sup id="cite_ref-imdb_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-imdb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kaplan was working at the <a href="/wiki/Fillmore_East" title="Fillmore East">Fillmore East</a> in New York, doing some editing on the side, when <a href="/wiki/Roger_Corman" title="Roger Corman">Roger Corman</a> offered him the opportunity to direct <i><a href="/wiki/Night_Call_Nurses" title="Night Call Nurses">Night Call Nurses</a></i> (1972); Kaplan had been recommended by Scorsese.<sup id="cite_ref-chris_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chris-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kaplan made the movie and returned to New York. It was a hit, and Corman offered him another film, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Student_Teachers" title="The Student Teachers">The Student Teachers</a></i> (1973), which he also co-wrote and co-edited.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After making <i><a href="/wiki/The_Slams" title="The Slams">The Slams</a></i> (1973) for Corman's brother Gene, he directed <i><a href="/wiki/Truck_Turner" title="Truck Turner">Truck Turner</a></i> (1974), which was another huge success and saw Kaplan get an offer to direct <i><a href="/wiki/White_Line_Fever_(film)" title="White Line Fever (film)">White Line Fever</a></i> (1975) for Columbia, a major Hollywood studio. That movie was an even larger success but then Kaplan made what he describes as "the biggest failure of my career", <i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Billion" title="Mr. Billion">Mr. Billion</a></i> (1977), an attempt to launch <a href="/wiki/Terence_Hill" title="Terence Hill">Terence Hill</a> to international audiences.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then went on to make the critically acclaimed <i><a href="/wiki/Over_the_Edge_(film)" title="Over the Edge (film)">Over the Edge</a></i> (1979), which failed to reach large audiences. </p><p>Kaplan says at this stage the only films he was being offered was "boy meets truck boy gets truck, boy loses truck and boy gets truck again.",<sup id="cite_ref-sight_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sight-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so he directed a series of TV movies. "I'm a director," he said. "I want to direct movies. I don't want to sit around and have fantasies or let a project go down the tubes when we can't get some star to read the script."<sup id="cite_ref-sight_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sight-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the early 1980s, Kaplan directed some movies for television and many music videos, including several for <a href="/wiki/John_Cougar_Mellencamp" class="mw-redirect" title="John Cougar Mellencamp">John Cougar Mellencamp</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rod_Stewart" title="Rod Stewart">Rod Stewart</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Infatuation_(Rod_Stewart_song)" title="Infatuation (Rod Stewart song)">Infatuation</a>" in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also directed the 1983 drag racing biopic <i><a href="/wiki/Heart_Like_a_Wheel_(film)" title="Heart Like a Wheel (film)">Heart Like a Wheel</a></i> and the 1987 science fiction-thriller <i><a href="/wiki/Project_X_(1987_film)" title="Project X (1987 film)">Project X</a></i>. </p><p>His feature film career revived in 1988, when <i><a href="/wiki/The_Accused_(1988_film)" title="The Accused (1988 film)">The Accused</a></i> (1988) earned <a href="/wiki/Jodie_Foster" title="Jodie Foster">Jodie Foster</a> her first <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Oscar</a>, for Best Actress. High profile feature film directing jobs followed, including <i><a href="/wiki/Immediate_Family_(film)" title="Immediate Family (film)">Immediate Family</a></i> (1989) and <i><a href="/wiki/Unlawful_Entry" class="mw-redirect" title="Unlawful Entry">Unlawful Entry</a></i> (1992). His direction of <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Pfeiffer" title="Michelle Pfeiffer">Michelle Pfeiffer</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Love_Field_(film)" title="Love Field (film)">Love Field</a></i> (1992) garnered her a Best Actress <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> nomination in 1993. His final theatrical feature film was <i><a href="/wiki/Brokedown_Palace" title="Brokedown Palace">Brokedown Palace</a></i> (1999). Since the 1990s, Kaplan has primarily worked as a television director.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_filmography">Selected filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Kaplan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Selected filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Night_Call_Nurses" title="Night Call Nurses">Night Call Nurses</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Student_Teachers" title="The Student Teachers">The Student Teachers</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Slams" title="The Slams">The Slams</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Truck_Turner" title="Truck Turner">Truck Turner</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/White_Line_Fever_(film)" title="White Line Fever (film)">White Line Fever</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Billion" title="Mr. Billion">Mr. Billion</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Over_the_Edge_(film)" title="Over the Edge (film)">Over the Edge</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/11th_Victim" title="11th Victim">11th Victim</a></i> (1979, TV movie)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gentleman_Bandit_(TV_movie)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Gentleman Bandit (TV movie)">The Gentleman Bandit</a></i> (1981, TV movie)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Girls_of_the_White_Orchid" title="Girls of the White Orchid">Girls of the White Orchid</a></i> (1983, TV movie)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heart_Like_a_Wheel_(film)" title="Heart Like a Wheel (film)">Heart Like a Wheel</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Project_X_(1987_film)" title="Project X (1987 film)">Project X</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Accused_(1988_film)" title="The Accused (1988 film)">The Accused</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Immediate_Family_(1989_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Immediate Family (1989 film)">Immediate Family</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unlawful_Entry" class="mw-redirect" title="Unlawful Entry">Unlawful Entry</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_Field_(film)" title="Love Field (film)">Love Field</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(American_TV_series)" title="Fallen Angels (American TV series)">Fallen Angels</a></i> (1993, TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rebel_Highway" title="Rebel Highway">Rebel Highway</a></i>: <i><a href="/wiki/Reform_School_Girl_(1994_film)" title="Reform School Girl (1994 film)">Reform School Girl</a></i> (1994, TV movie)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bad_Girls_(1994_film)" title="Bad Girls (1994 film)">Bad Girls</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Picture_Windows" title="Picture Windows">Picture Windows</a></i> (1995, TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Cold_Blood_(miniseries)" title="In Cold Blood (miniseries)">In Cold Blood</a></i> (1996, TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/ER_(TV_series)" title="ER (TV series)">ER</a></i> (1997, TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brokedown_Palace" title="Brokedown Palace">Brokedown Palace</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crossing_Jordan" title="Crossing Jordan">Crossing Jordan</a></i> (2005, TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Law_and_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Law and Order: Special Victims Unit">Law and Order: Special Victims Unit</a></i> (2005–present, TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Without_a_Trace" title="Without a Trace">Without a Trace</a></i> (2006–2009, TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brothers_%26_Sisters_(2006_TV_series)" title="Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series)">Brothers and Sisters</a></i> (2010, TV series)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Kaplan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output 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class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trailersfromhell.com/trailers/529">Jonathan Kaplan on <i>Night Call Nurses</i></a>, trailersfromhell.com; accessed November 5, 2015.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trailersfromhell.com/trailers/528">Jonathan Kaplan on <i>Mr. Billion</i></a> at <a href="/wiki/Trailers_From_Hell" class="mw-redirect" title="Trailers From Hell">Trailers From Hell</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peepthescene.com/Infatuation_musicvideo1360.html">Profile</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link 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(1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gentleman_Bandit_(1981_film)" title="The Gentleman Bandit (1981 film)">The Gentleman Bandit</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heart_Like_a_Wheel_(film)" title="Heart Like a Wheel (film)">Heart Like a Wheel</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Girls_of_the_White_Orchid" title="Girls of the White Orchid">Girls of the White Orchid</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Project_X_(1987_film)" title="Project X (1987 film)">Project X</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Accused_(1988_film)" title="The Accused (1988 film)">The Accused</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Immediate_Family_(film)" title="Immediate Family (film)">Immediate Family</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unlawful_Entry_(film)" title="Unlawful Entry (film)">Unlawful Entry</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_Field_(film)" title="Love Field (film)">Love Field</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bad_Girls_(1994_film)" title="Bad 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