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Henry Jaglom
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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.
As director
Train to Zakopané
Ovation
The M Word
Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
Queen of the Lot
Irene in Time
Hollywood Dreams
Going Shopping
Festival in Cannes
Déjà Vu
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Babyfever
Venice/Venice
Eating
New Year's Day
Someone to Love
Always … But Not Forever
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Sitting Ducks
Tracks
My Brother's Sex Life
A Safe Place
As actor
Now, Irving Rapper
Everyone Asked About You
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
Dean Martin: King of Cool
I Am Richard Pryor
The Immortal Orson Welles
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
The Other Side of the Wind
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood
This Is Orson Welles
Orson Welles: Shadows & Light
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Scene Missing
Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place'
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Edge of Outside
Searching for Orson
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Venice/Venice
New Year's Day
On the tracks of a filmmaker
Someone to Love
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Always … But Not Forever
Sitting Ducks