Jan Harlan is a film producer and the brother of Christiane Kubrick

Christiane Kubrick

Christiane Kubrick is a German actress, dancer, painter and singer. She was born into a theatrical family, and was the wife of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick from 1958 until his death in 1999.-Biography:...

, Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

's widow. He was born in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

, Germany on May 5, 1937.

He started out working for Kubrick as a researcher, most prominently on Napoleon, Kubrick's never-filmed epic about the French military leader, in 1968, when Kubrick asked him, as a German speaker to accompany him to Romania to organise the army scenes for the film. Harlan acted as Kubrick's executive producer

Executive producer

An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...

 for Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period romantic war film produced, written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray which recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer...

(1975), The Shining

The Shining (film)

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. A writer, Jack Torrance, takes a job as an...

(1980), Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is an adaptation of the 1979 novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard and Adam Baldwin. The film follows a platoon of U.S...

(1987), Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 drama film based upon Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle . The film was directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, and was his last film. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually-charged adventures of Dr...

(1999), and was an assistant to the producer for A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick...

(1971). Harlan was also executive producer for Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

's Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), a collaboration between Spielberg and Kubrick. Harlan directed Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures is a 2001 documentary about the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, famed film director, made by his long-time assistant and brother-in-law Jan Harlan...

(2001).

In 2009 he assisted Alison Castle

Alison Castle

Alison Castle is a book editor who most prominently worked on "The Stanley Kubrick Archives" for TASCHENShe is also the editor of Linda McCartney's "Life in Photography", "Some Like It Hot", and "Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made", all published by TASCHEN.She studied philosophy as...

, a Taschen

Taschen

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 editor, in creating the book "Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made" and gave a talk about the Kubrick Napoleon archives at Cambridge Film Festival in September 2010 with Alison Castle

Alison Castle

Alison Castle is a book editor who most prominently worked on "The Stanley Kubrick Archives" for TASCHENShe is also the editor of Linda McCartney's "Life in Photography", "Some Like It Hot", and "Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made", all published by TASCHEN.She studied philosophy as...

. He is the nephew of the infamous German, Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan

Veit Harlan

Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...

, best known as the writer and director of Jud Süß

Jud Süß (1940 film)

Jud Süß is an antisemitic propaganda film produced in 1940 by Terra Filmkunst at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. The movie was directed by Veit Harlan, who wrote the screenplay with Eberhard Wolfgang Möller and Ludwig Metzger, and starred Ferdinand Marian and Harlan's wife Kristina Söderbaum.The...

, a virulently anti-Semitic, 1940 propaganda film of the Third Reich. He has three sons, Manuel, Dominic and Ben. He is married to Maria.

He has through several years been a regular guest lecturer at the European Film College

European Film College

The European Film College is a school that offers an eight-month foundation course in practical filmmaking covering the fields of script-writing, cinematography, sound, acting, directing, editing, documentary and production management. The School is based in Ebeltoft, Denmark...

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