Henry Jaglom
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Jaglom is a London-born American film director and playwright. Jaglom was born to a Jewish family in London, England, the son of Marie (née Stadthagen) and Simon M. Jaglom, who worked in the import-export business. His father was from a wealthy family from Russia and his mother was from Germany. They left for England because of the Nazi regime. Through his mother, he is a descendant of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where he acted, wrote and directed off-Broadway theater and cabaret before settling in Hollywood in the late 1960s. Under contract to Columbia Pictures, Jaglom featured in such TV series as Gidget and The Flying Nun and acted in a number of films which included Boris Sagal's The Thousand Plane Raid (1969), Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said (1971), Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie (1971), Orson Welles' never-completed The Other Side of the Wind and more. Jaglom's transition from acting in films to creating them was largely influenced by his experience watching the Italian film 8½ (1963). “The film changed my identity. I realized that what I wanted to do was make films. Not only that, but I realized what I wanted to make films about: my own life, to some extent.” Jaglom began his filmmaking career working with Nicholson on the editing of Hopper's Easy Rider (1969), and made his writing/directing debut with A Safe Place (1971), starring Tuesday Weld, Nicholson and Welles. His next film, Tracks (1976), starred Hopper and was one of the earliest movies to explore the psychological cost on America of the Vietnam War. His third film, the first to be a commercial success, was Sitting Ducks (1980), a comic romp. Jaglom co-starred in four of his most personal films—Always, But Not Forever (1985), Someone to Love (1987) starring Orson Welles in his farewell film performance, New Year's Day (1989), which introduced David Duchovny, and Venice/Venice (1992) opposite French star Nelly Alard. In 1983, Jaglom taped lunch conversations with Orson Welles at Los Angeles's Ma Maison. Edited transcripts of these sessions appear in Peter Biskind's book My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles (2013). As a playwright, has written four plays that have been successfully performed on Los Angeles stages: The Waiting Room (1974), A Safe Place (2003), Always—But Not Forever (2007) and Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2009/2010). Jaglom is the subject of the Henry Alex Rubin's and Jeremy Workman's documentary Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997). Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Jaglom, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2024 · Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director as Himself
- 2021 · Dean Martin: King of Cool as Self
- 2019 · Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson as Self
- 2019 · I Am Richard Pryor as Self - Actor and Director
- 2019 · The Immortal Orson Welles as Himself
- 2018 · The Other Side of the Wind as Henry Jaglom
- 2018 · They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self
- 2017 · Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood as Self
- 2015 · This Is Orson Welles as Self
- 2015 · Orson Welles: Shadows & Light as Himself
- 2014 · Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker and Orson's Friend
- 2012 · Scene Missing as Self
- 2010 · BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
- 2010 · Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place' as Self
- 2006 · Searching for Orson as Self
- 2006 · Edge of Outside as Self
- 2004 · Los Angeles Plays Itself as Dean in Venice/Venice (archive footage)
- 2004 · Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession as Self
- 2003 · Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- 1998 · Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
- 1997 · Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self
- 1995 · Last Summer in the Hamptons as Max Berger
- 1992 · Venice/Venice as Dean
- 1990 · New Year's Day as Drew
- 1988 · On the tracks of a filmmaker as Henry Jaglom
- 1987 · Someone to Love as Danny Sapir
- 1987 · Out of the Blue and Into the Black as Self
- 1985 · Always … But Not Forever as David
- 1980 · Sitting Ducks as The Bad Guy
- 1971 · Notes on the New York Film Festival as Self
- 1971 · The Last Movie as Minister's Son
- 1971 · Drive, He Said as Conrad
- 1969 · The Thousand Plane Raid as Worchek
- 1968 · Psych-Out as Warren