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    Henry Jaglom

    1938-01-26 (86 years old) in 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.

    Movies

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    Dean Martin: King of Cool
    75 %|Nov 14, 2021
    Documentary
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    Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
    70 %|Jul 21, 2019
    Documentary, TV Movie
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    I Am Richard Pryor
    68 %|Mar 12, 2019
    Documentary
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    The Immortal Orson Welles
    0 %|Jan 19, 2019
    Documentary
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    The Other Side of the Wind
    67 %|Nov 2, 2018
    Drama
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    They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
    71.50999999999999 %|Aug 31, 2018
    Documentary
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    This Is Orson Welles
    73.33 %|May 21, 2015
    Documentary
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    Orson Welles: Shadows & Light
    56 %|May 9, 2015
    Documentary
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    Scene Missing
    63 %|Jan 1, 2012
    Documentary
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    Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place'
    0 %|Nov 23, 2010
    Documentary
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    BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
    0 %|Nov 23, 2010
    Documentary
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    Searching for Orson
    55 %|Nov 2, 2006
    Documentary
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    Edge of Outside
    58 %|Jun 11, 2006
    Documentary
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    Los Angeles Plays Itself
    77 %|Jul 28, 2004
    Documentary
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    Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
    69 %|May 16, 2004
    History, Documentary
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    Who Is Henry Jaglom?
    66 %|Jul 8, 1997
    Documentary
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    Last Summer in the Hamptons
    55 %|Nov 22, 1995
    Comedy, Drama
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    Venice/Venice
    80 %|Apr 10, 1992
    Drama
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    New Year's Day
    45 %|Feb 9, 1990
    Comedy
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    On the tracks of a filmmaker
    0 %|Jan 1, 1988
    Documentary
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    Someone to Love
    53 %|Sep 11, 1987
    Comedy
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    Out of the Blue and Into the Black
    0 %|Jan 30, 1987
    Documentary
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    Always … But Not Forever
    43 %|Oct 4, 1985
    Drama, Romance
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    Sitting Ducks
    56 %|Apr 4, 1980
    Crime, Comedy
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    Notes on the New York Film Festival
    50 %|Dec 31, 1971
    Documentary
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    The Last Movie
    56 %|Sep 29, 1971
    Drama
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    Drive, He Said
    60 %|Jun 13, 1971
    Comedy, Drama
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    The Thousand Plane Raid
    60 %|Jul 15, 1969
    Adventure, War
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    Psych-Out
    50 %|Mar 6, 1968
    Drama, Thriller, Music

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