Henry Jaglom
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Life and career
Born January 26, 1941 in London, England to Simon and Marie Jaglom, Henry Jaglom trained with Lee StrasbergLee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective"...
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
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
, Jaglom guest-starred in such TV series as Gidget
Gidget (TV series)
Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as her father. The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965 through April 21, 1966...
and The Flying Nun
The Flying Nun
The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios, which starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille...
and acted in a number of films which included Richard Rush
Richard Rush
Richard Rush was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the second son of Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and Julia Rush. He entered the College of New Jersey at the age of 14, and graduated in 1797 as the youngest member of his class...
's Psych-Out
Psych-Out
Psych-Out is a feature film about hippies, psychedelic music, and recreational drugs, produced and released by American International Pictures. Originally scripted as The Love Children, the title when tested caused people to think it was about bastards, so Samuel Z...
(1968), Boris Sagal
Boris Sagal
Boris Sagal was a Ukrainian-born American television and film director.-Early life and career:Born in Yekaterinoslav, Soviet Union, Sagal emigrated to the United States where he attended the Yale School of Drama. Sagal's many TV credits include directing episodes of The Twilight Zone, "T.H.E...
's The 1000 Plane Raid (1969), Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times, and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the...
's Drive, He Said
Drive, He Said
Drive, He Said is an American motion picture released by Columbia Pictures, based upon the 1964 novel of the same title by Jeremy Larner...
(1971), Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
's The Last Movie
The Last Movie
The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips...
(1971), Maurice Dugowson
Maurice Dugowson
Maurice Dugowson was a French film director and screenwriter. His 1975 film Lily, aime-moi was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, his film F comme Fairbanks was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
's Lily, aime-moi
Lily, aime-moi
Lily, aime-moi is a 1975 French comedy film directed by Maurice Dugowson. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean-Michel Folon - François* Patrick Dewaere - Gaston, dit Johnny Cash* Rufus - Claude* Zouzou - Lily...
(1975) and Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
' never-completed The Other Side of the Wind
The Other Side of the Wind
The Other Side of the Wind is an unfinished film directed by Orson Welles, shot between 1969 and 1976, and starring John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Oja Kodar.-Summary:...
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Jaglom's transition from acting in films to creating them was largely influenced by his experience watching 8½
8½
8½ is a 1963 Italian fantasy film directed by Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director...
, he told Robert K. Elder
Robert K. Elder
Robert K. Elder is an American journalist, author and film columnist.- Early life and education :A Montana native, Elder interviewed Ken Kesey for his high school newspaper. The author encouraged Elder to attend his alma mater, the University of Oregon, which Elder did two years later...
in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life
The Film That Changed My Life
The Film That Changed My Life is a non-fiction collection of interviews compiled by American journalist, author and film columnist Robert K. Elder...
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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
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom...
, and made his writing/directing debut in 1971 with A Safe Place
A Safe Place
A Safe Place is a 1971 film starring Jack Nicholson, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles and Phil Proctor and directed by Henry Jaglom....
, starring Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld is an American actress.Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960...
, 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
Sitting Ducks (film)
Sitting Ducks is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Henry Jaglom. The film follows the adventures of two small-time hoods who steal a considerable amount of cash from a gambling syndicate. While fleeing by car down the U.S...
(1980), a comic romp that co-starred Zack Norman with Jaglom's brother Michael Emil. Film critic David Thomson
David Thomson (film critic)
David Thomson is a film critic and historian based in the United States and the author of more than 20 books, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.-Career:...
said of Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Henry Jaglom. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michael Emil - Eli* Karen Black - Zee* Michael Margotta - Larry...
(1983) that it "is an actors' film in that it grows out of their personalities—it is as loose and unexpected as life, but is shaped and witty as a great short story. In truth, a new kind of film..." It starred Karen Black
Karen Black
Karen Black is an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, Rhinoceros, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot...
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Jaglom co-starred in four of his most personal films - Always, But Not Forever (1985), Someone to Love
Someone to Love
Someone to Love may refer to:*Someone to Love , an 1987 film directed by Henry Jaglom*"Someone to Love" , a power pop song released in 2007*"Someone to Love" , a R&B song released in 1995...
(1987) starring Orson Welles in his farewell film performance, New Year's Day
New Year's Day (film)
New Year's Day is a 2001 comedy-drama film starring Andrew Lee Potts, Bobby Barry, Jacqueline Bisset, Anastasia Hille, Michael Kitchen, Sue Johnston, Ralph Brown and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. It was written by Ralph Brown and directed by Suri Krishnamma....
(1989), which introduced David Duchovny
David Duchovny
David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer and director. He has won Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.-Early life:...
, and Venice/Venice
Venice/Venice
Venice/Venice is an American film starring Henry Jaglom, Nelly Alard, Melissa Leo, Suzanne Bertish, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, John Landis and written and directed by Henry Jaglom.-Plot:...
(1992) opposite French star Nelly Alard.
In 1990, Jaglom directed Eating
Eating (film)
Eating is an American comedic drama film starring Nelly Alard, Lisa Blake Richards, Frances Bergen, Mary Crosby, Gwen Welles, Elizabeth Kemp, Marina Gregory and written and directed by Henry Jaglom.-Plot:...
(1990) about a group of women with eating disorders and how they cope with it and one another. Babyfever (1995) was about the issue of women with ticking biological clocks. Last Summer in the Hamptons
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Last Summer in the Hamptons is a 1995 movie directed by Henry Jaglom and released by Rainbow Releasing and Live Entertainment and features a large eclectic ensemble cast....
(1996) was a Chekhovian look at the life of a theatrical family and starred Viveca Lindfors
Viveca Lindfors
Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors , better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish stage and film actress.-Life and career:...
in her last screen role. Déjà Vu
Déjà Vu (1997 film)
Déjà Vu is a 1997 American dramatic romance film directed by Henry Jaglom. It stars the British actors, Stephen Dillane and Vanessa Redgrave. It premiered at the American Film Institute Festival on 25 October 1997 and was released theatrically on 22 April 1998.-Plot:Dana , a young American woman,...
(1997) was about the yearning of people trying to find their perfect soul mate and was the only film in which Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning...
and her mother, Rachel Kempson
Rachel Kempson
Rachel, Lady Redgrave , known primarily by her birth name as Rachel Kempson, was an English actress. She married Sir Michael Redgrave, and was the matriarch of the famous acting dynasty.-Career:...
, appeared together. Festival in Cannes
Festival in Cannes
Festival in Cannes is a 2001 film directed by Henry Jaglom.The plot is an entertainment industry farce about filmmakers trying to make deals during the Cannes Film Festival....
(2002) explored the lives and relationships of those involved in the world of filmmaking and was shot entirely at the Cannes International Film Festival. Going Shopping (2005) explored that subject as the third part of Jaglom's "Women's Trilogy", the others being Eating and Babyfever.
Hollywood Dreams
Hollywood Dreams
Hollywood Dreams is an American film starring Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, David Proval, Karen Black, Eric Roberts, Seymour Cassel and written and directed by Henry Jaglom.-Plot:...
(2007) dealt with a young woman's obsession with fame in the film industry and introduced Tanna Frederick
Tanna Frederick
Tanna Marie Frederick is a stage and independent film actress who rose to prominence for her title role in Henry Jaglom's Hollywood Dreams, for which she received the Best Actress Award at the 2008 Fargo Film Festival.-Biography:...
, who then starred in Jaglom's Irene in Time
Irene in Time
Irene in Time is a 2009 American indie film directed by Henry Jaglom. It marked the second collaboration between director Jaglom and his protégé, actress Tanna Frederick, who also starred in Hollywood Dreams, Jaglom's 2006 film. Irene also starred Victoria Tennant, Lanre Idewu, and Andrea...
(2009), a look at the complex relationships between fathers and daughters and how it haunts some women for the rest of their lives. Currently being edited is Frederick's third film with Jaglom, Queen of the Lot, opens in theaters across the United States in November 2010 and co-stars Noah Wyle
Noah Wyle
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle is an American film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. John Truman Carter III in the Medical drama ER. He has also played Steve Jobs in the 1999 docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley and Flynn Carsen in The Librarian franchise...
with a supporting cast that includes Christopher Rydell, Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola...
, Jack Heller, Mary Crosby
Mary Crosby
Mary Frances Crosby is an American actress. She is most often credited as simply Mary Crosby for her performances.-Early life:...
, Kathryn Crosby
Kathryn Crosby
Kathryn Crosby is an American actress and singer who also performed under the stage-name Kathryn Grant.-Early life and career:...
and Dennis Christopher
Dennis Christopher
Dennis Christopher is an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for playing Dave Stoller in Breaking Away and tragic film buff psychopath Eric Binford in Fade to Black....
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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 also the subject of the Henry Alex Rubin
Henry Alex Rubin
Henry-Alex Rubin studied film at Phillips Academy, Andover and Columbia University. The son of a French mother and American father Henry-Alex Rubin studied film at Phillips Academy, Andover and Columbia University. The son of a French mother and American father Henry-Alex Rubin studied film at...
's and Jeremy Workman's 1997 documentary Who is Henry Jaglom?.
Selected filmography
- 1971 - A Safe PlaceA Safe PlaceA Safe Place is a 1971 film starring Jack Nicholson, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles and Phil Proctor and directed by Henry Jaglom....
- 1976 - Tracks
- 1980 - Sitting DucksSitting Ducks (film)Sitting Ducks is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Henry Jaglom. The film follows the adventures of two small-time hoods who steal a considerable amount of cash from a gambling syndicate. While fleeing by car down the U.S...
- 1983 - Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Henry Jaglom. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michael Emil - Eli* Karen Black - Zee* Michael Margotta - Larry...
- 1985 - Always, But Not Forever
- 1987 - Someone to LoveSomeone to LoveSomeone to Love may refer to:*Someone to Love , an 1987 film directed by Henry Jaglom*"Someone to Love" , a power pop song released in 2007*"Someone to Love" , a R&B song released in 1995...
- 1990 - EatingEatingEating is the ingestion of food to provide for all organisms their nutritional needs, particularly for energy and growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive: carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter,...
- 1992 - Venice/VeniceVenice/VeniceVenice/Venice is an American film starring Henry Jaglom, Nelly Alard, Melissa Leo, Suzanne Bertish, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, John Landis and written and directed by Henry Jaglom.-Plot:...
- 1995 - Babyfever
- 1996 - Last Summer in the HamptonsLast Summer in the HamptonsLast Summer in the Hamptons is a 1995 movie directed by Henry Jaglom and released by Rainbow Releasing and Live Entertainment and features a large eclectic ensemble cast....
- 1997 - Déjà VuDéjà Vu (1997 film)Déjà Vu is a 1997 American dramatic romance film directed by Henry Jaglom. It stars the British actors, Stephen Dillane and Vanessa Redgrave. It premiered at the American Film Institute Festival on 25 October 1997 and was released theatrically on 22 April 1998.-Plot:Dana , a young American woman,...
- 2002 - Festival in CannesFestival in CannesFestival in Cannes is a 2001 film directed by Henry Jaglom.The plot is an entertainment industry farce about filmmakers trying to make deals during the Cannes Film Festival....
- 2005 - Going ShoppingGoing ShoppingGoing Shopping is a 2005 American romance film directed by Henry Jaglom and stars Victoria Foyt, Rob Morrow, and Lee Grant .-Cast:* Victoria Foyt as Holly Gilmore* Rob Morrow as Miles* Lee Grant as Winnie...
- 2007 - Hollywood DreamsHollywood DreamsHollywood Dreams is an American film starring Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, David Proval, Karen Black, Eric Roberts, Seymour Cassel and written and directed by Henry Jaglom.-Plot:...
- 2009 - Irene in TimeIrene in TimeIrene in Time is a 2009 American indie film directed by Henry Jaglom. It marked the second collaboration between director Jaglom and his protégé, actress Tanna Frederick, who also starred in Hollywood Dreams, Jaglom's 2006 film. Irene also starred Victoria Tennant, Lanre Idewu, and Andrea...
- 2010 - Queen of the Lot
Playwright
- 1974 - The Waiting Room
- 2003 - A Safe Place
- 2007 - Always—But Not Forever
- 2009/2010 - Just 45 Minutes From Broadway