Jonathan Kaplan, director for TV and movies together with “The Accused,” who was Emmy-nominated 5 occasions for “ER,” died on Friday in Los Angeles. His daughter Molly stated the trigger was superior liver most cancers. He was 77.
The son of movie composer Sol Kaplan and actress Frances Heflin, Kaplan was born in Paris earlier than transferring to Los Angeles after which New York at a younger age. As a toddler, he acted on the stage, notably showing in Elia Kazan’s Broadway manufacturing of “The Darkish on the Prime of the Stairs.” After graduating the College of Chicago, he studied movie beneath Martin Scorsese at New York College. In 1967, he accomplished his award-winning scholar brief movie, “Stanley.”
Scorsese later advisable Kaplan to Roger Corman, who employed him to direct his first characteristic: the intercourse comedy “Night time Name Nurses.” The image was successful, resulting in extra alternatives for Kaplan to direct. Throughout the Nineteen Seventies, he directed seven extra options, together with “The Scholar Academics,” “The Slam,” “Truck Turner,” “White Line Fever” and “Over The Edge.”
Within the Eighties, Kaplan directed a number of TV films and music movies, collaborating with musicians together with Barbra Streisand, John Mellencamp and Rod Stewart. He revived his characteristic movie profession on the finish of the last decade, directing the critically acclaimed “The Accused,” which earned Jodi Foster her first Academy Award for Greatest Actress. His subsequent movies included “Speedy Household,” starring James Woods and Glenn Shut, “Illegal Entry” starring Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe and Ray Liotta, and “Love Area,” starring Michelle Pfeiffer in an Academy Award nominated efficiency. Kaplan’s remaining theatrical launch was “Brokedown Palace” in 1999.
On the flip of the millennium, Kaplan transitioned to working in tv, directing episodes of assorted reveals together with “Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit,” “With out A Hint” and “Brothers & Sisters.” Most notably, he directed over 50 episodes of “ER” and served as a producer on the sequence, garnering 5 Emmy nominations between 1997 and 2005. His remaining credit score was for government producing the 2014 movie “That Man Dick Miller:” a characteristic documentary in regards to the eponymous character actor who starred in a few of Kaplan’s Corman movies.
Over the course of Kaplan’s profession, his work was additionally nominated for 2 Golden Bear Awards on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition, a Leo Award, and a CableACE Award. He married casting director Julie Selzer in 1987, with whom he had his solely youngster. They divorced in 2001.
He’s survived by his daughter, Molly Kaplan, his sister Nora and his two nieces. He was predeceased by his dad and mom and his sister, Mady Kaplan Ahern.
