Henry Jaglom

Known for DirectingBorn 1938-01-26 (age 88)London, England

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Dean Martin: King of Cool

This Is Orson Welles

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

I Am Richard Pryor

Venice/Venice

The Other Side of the Wind

Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Scene Missing

Festival in Cannes

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

The Thousand Plane Raid

Orson Welles: Shadows & Light

Edge of Outside

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Searching for Orson

Déjà Vu

The Last Movie

Drive, He Said

Tracks

Someone to Love

Going Shopping

A Safe Place

New Year's Day

Notes on the New York Film Festival

Psych-Out

Sitting Ducks

Babyfever

Always … But Not Forever

Eating

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Hollywood Dreams

The M Word

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Queen of the Lot

Just 45 Minutes from Broadway

Irene in Time

Now, Irving Rapper

Everyone Asked About You

Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

The Immortal Orson Welles

Train to Zakopané

Ovation

Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place'