Jonathan Kaplan is an American

United States

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 film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

.

Kaplan was born in Paris, France. He is the son of film composer Sol Kaplan

Sol Kaplan

Sol Kaplan was a prolific film and television music composer.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kaplan worked as a successful concert pianist, including performing at Carnegie Hall in 1941. That same year, Kaplan composed his first film score. He went on to write music for dozens of films...

 and actress Frances Heflin

Frances Heflin

Mary Frances Heflin was an American actress.-Life and career:Heflin was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Fanny Bleecker and Dr. Emmett Evan Heflin, a dentist. She was the sister of Academy Award-winning actor Van Heflin...

; the nephew of actor Van Heflin

Van Heflin

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. was an American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man...

. He is the brother of actresses Nora Heflin and Mady Kaplan. His film The Accused (1988), earned actress Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster

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 her first Oscar for Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Bear

Golden Bear

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 at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival

39th Berlin International Film Festival

The 39th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 10 to 21, 1989.-Jury:* Rolf Liebermann * Leslie Caron* Chen Kaige* Vadim Glowna* Randa Haines* Vladimir Ignatovski* Adrian Kutter* Francisco Rabal...

. Kaplan received 5 Emmy nominations for his roles directing and producing ER

ER (TV series)

ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

.

Kaplan directed Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

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's music video for "Infatuation" in 1984.

Selected Filmography

• Night Call Nurses (1972)
• The Student Teachers (1973)
• The Slams
  The Slams
  The Slams is a 1973 film directed by Jonathan Kaplan.The film starred Jeff Horvitz, Eleña's dad....
  
   (1973)
• Truck Turner
  Truck Turner
  Truck Turner is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Jerry Wilkes and Oscar Williams...
  
   (1974)
• White Line Fever
  White Line Fever (film)
  White Line Fever is an American movie about truck drivers released in 1975 and starring Jan-Michael Vincent.-Backstory:Sam Hummer was a local truck driver from Tucson Arizona who worked for a Tucson-based produce-shipper called "Red River". His driving partners were Duane Haller and "Pops" Dinwiddie...
  
   (1975)
• Mr. Billion
  Mr. Billion
  -Plot:Guido Falcone , an easygoing Italian mechanic, is heir to a billion-dollar inheritance after his uncle dies in a freak accident. In order to claim his inheritance, he must reach San Francisco within twenty days to sign a document...
  
   (1977)
• Over the Edge
  Over the Edge (film)
  Over the Edge is a drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan released in 1979. Due to the negative publicity surrounding a wave of recent youth gang films, Over the Edge had a limited theatrical release in late 1979...
  
   (1979)
• Heart Like a Wheel
  Heart Like a Wheel (film)
  Heart Like a Wheel is a 1983 biographical film based on the life of drag racing driver Shirley Muldowney. It stars Bonnie Bedelia and Beau Bridges....
  
   (1983)
• Project X (1987)
• The Accused (1988)
• Immediate Family (1989)
• Unlawful Entry
  Unlawful Entry (film)
  Unlawful Entry is a 1992 American thriller film directed by Jonathan Kaplan starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta and Madeleine Stowe. Involving a couple who befriend a lonely policeman, only for him to develop a fixation on the wife .Ray Liotta was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in 1993 for his...
  
   (1992)
• Love Field
  Love Field (film)
  Love Field is a 1992 American independent drama film written by Don Roos and directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert...
  
   (1992)
• Fallen Angels
  Fallen Angels (TV series)
  Fallen Angels was an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran from 1993 to 1995 on the Showtime pay cable station and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994....
  
   (1993) (TV)
• Rebel Highway
  Rebel Highway
  Rebel Highway was a short-lived revival of American International Pictures created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff and Debra Hill for the Showtime channel in 1994. The concept was 10-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge"...
  
  : Reform School Girl (1994) (TV)
• Bad Girls
  Bad Girls (film)
  Bad Girls is a 1994 western film starring Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore. It was directed by Jonathan Kaplan from a screenplay by Ken Friedman and Yolande Turner.-Plot:...
  
   (1994)
• Picture Windows (1995) (TV)
• ER
  ER (TV series)
  ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
   (1997) (TV)
• Brokedown Palace
  Brokedown Palace
  Brokedown Palace is an American film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale. It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling. Because it presents a critical view of the Thai legal system, most scenes were filmed in the Philippines;...
  
   (1999)
• Crossing Jordan
  Crossing Jordan
  Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that aired on NBC from September 24, 2001 to May 16, 2007. It stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Medical Examiner's Office...
  
   (2005) (TV)
• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2005-2011) (TV)
• Without a Trace
  Without a Trace
  Without a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series was set in New York City and concerned a fictitious FBI Missing Persons Unit.-Premise:...
  
   (2006 - 2009) (TV)
• Brothers and Sisters
  Brothers and Sisters
  Brothers and Sisters may refer to:* Brothers & Sisters , an American television series* Brothers and Sisters , an American sitcom* "Brothers & Sisters" , episode of Family Guy...
  
   (2010) (TV)

See also

• Aestheticization of violence
  Aestheticization of violence
  The aestheticization of violence in high culture art or mass media is the depiction of or references to violence in what Indiana University film studies professor Margaret Bruder calls a "stylistically excessive," "significant and sustained way." When violence is depicted in this fashion in films,...
  
  , an article which includes a discussion of Kaplan's use of a violent rape scene in The Accused.

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