Jonathan Kaplan, who made Jodie Foster to a better actress Oscar The accused and received five Emmy nominations for his work as helmer and producer on EASTis dead. He was 77 years old.
Kaplan died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle against liver cancer, said his daughter, Molly Kaplan, The Hollywood Reporter. “He was a loving and united father,” she said.
Kaplan, both of whom worked in the show business and whose uncle was the Oscar -winning actor Van Heflin, served a learning with the famous producer of film B Roger Corman, then made the Blaxploitation Classic Truck turner (1974), with Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto and Nichelle Nichols.
Kaplan also guided Michelle Pfeiffer towards an nomination for the Oscars of the best actress in the 1960s set Love field (1992), and its curriculum vitae including the biopic shirley moldowney Heart like a wheel (1983), with Bonnie Bedelia and Beau Bridges; Bad girls (1987), The Distaff Western with Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore; And the drama Immediate family (1989), with Masterson, Glenn Close and James Woods.
Based on a true story, The accused (1988) played Foster while Sarah Tobias, a waitress who is raped by three men in a local bar while the Applaudi spectators, then testify against them.
The legal drama, written by the journalist of the newspaper Onetime, Tom Topor, tested badly in advance, but was champion by Paramount Heads Sherry Lansing and Stanley R. Jaffe, and Foster would receive the first of his two Oscars. After coming on board, Kaplan judiciously identified that the second of the numerous script versions was the one that should be filmed.
Jonathan Kaplan and Jodie Foster at work on “The accused” of 1988.
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Kaplan shared EMMY appointments for exceptional dramatic series with John Wells and Michael Crichton in 1999, 2000 and 2001 to have produced EASTAnd he also received realization names in 2000 and 2001. He directed 40 episodes from the NBC series from 1997 to 2009.
Kaplan was born in Paris on November 25, 1947. His father, Sol Kaplan, was a composer for cinema and television (I can get it for you basically,, Star Trek), And his mother, Frances Heflin, represented Mona Kane Tyler (mother of Erica Kane de Susan Lucci) All my children. (She was Van Heflin’s sister, known for her turns Johnny impatient,, Shane And ShooterTo name only three of his great films.)
Kaplan lived in the Los Angeles region until 1954, when his father moved the family to New York to work on Broadway after being put on black list in Hollywood after an appearance before the committee of the Non -American Chamber of Activities.
Kaplan, then 10 years, and his mother worked as a lining in the production of Broadway from 1957-1959 by William Ing The darkness at the top of the stairsDirected by Elia Kazan, and then he had improvisation theater with Elaine May.
He obtained his baccalaureate from the University of Chicago, then studied the film at New York University, where he was educated by Martin Scorsese, who recommended him to Corman. The producer hired him to direct (1972), followed by another sexplotation film, Teachers’ students (1973).
“Working with and for Roger Corman was great,” he said. “All I had to do was deliver nudity, chills, percin and comedy, which had become the brand of Roger – and I did it.”
After managing the Jim Brown featuring and in prison Slams (1973) for Roger’s brother, producer Gene Corman, Kaplan received the reins to Truck turner (1974) by producer Lawrence Gordon.
“When I was given the project for the first time, the studio [American International Pictures] I was thinking of using Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine or Robert Mitchum in the main role, “he recalls.” But then I received a call from Larry telling me that I would take a photo with Isaac Hayes instead. I said: “It’s a whole change of Robert Mitchum!” “”
Kaplan followed with his first major film in the studio, The Neo-Noir White line fever (1975), with Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz in Columbia Pictures. (He also co-written this film.)
Kaplan then was hired by Dino de Laurentiis to direct Mr. Billion (1977), who introduced the star of Italian action Terence Hill to an American audience, but he would call it the greatest failure of his career. After managing the cult favorite On the edge (1979), with Matt Dillon during his cinema debut, he retired on television to make TV movies.
In the 80s, Kaplan carried out music clips featuring Barbra Streisand (“Left in the Dark”), Rod Stewart (“Infatetation”, “Lost in You”) and John Cougar Mellencamp (“Lonely Ol ‘Night”, “Small Town”, “Rain on the Scarecrow” Up ”).
He also directed Project X (1987), with Matthew Broderick; Illegal entrance (1992); with Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta and Stowe; And its last feature, Brokedown Palace (1999), with Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale.
He made episodes of Fall angels,, Law and order: SVU,, Cross Jordan,, Without trace,, Siblings And East End witches Also.
In addition to her daughter, the survivors include her sister, actress Nora Heflin, and her nieces, Hannah and Eliza. Another sister, actress Mady Kaplan, died three or four years ago.
Kaplan was married to Julie Selzer – Casting Director on The accused And most of his projects in the 1980s-from 1987 to their divorce from 2001. “Everyone in distribution and the team loved him just,” she said THR. “He worked so quickly, they all loved it.”
