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.
The Last Movie
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The Other Side of the Wind
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
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Psych-Out
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
as SelfA documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its...
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker and Orson's FriendThe extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible...
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as SelfThe chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and...
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I Am Richard Pryor
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Dean Martin: King of Cool
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Last Summer in the Hamptons
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Edge of Outside
as SelfAn hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W....
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Someone to Love
as Danny SapirA Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on...
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Sitting Ducks
as The Bad GuyTwo small-time thieves come together in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true.
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Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
as SelfEkchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked....
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as SelfHailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema,...
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Drive, He Said
as ConradHector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards....
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Venice/Venice
as DeanDean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as...
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Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
as SelfIn a Hollywood career spanning more than 50 years and with 60 movie credits to his name, Jack...
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The Thousand Plane Raid
as WorchekIn 1943, Colonel Greg Brandon, stationed at an United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force,...
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Out of the Blue and Into the Black
as SelfPaul Joyce’s Out of the Blue and Into the Black is an insightful documentary surveying American...
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Orson Welles: Shadows & Light
as HimselfGiant of cinema, the embodiment of creation, Orson Welles is the man who reinvents the film...
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New Year's Day
as DrewA man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women,...
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Scene Missing
as SelfThe unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The...
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BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
as SelfThis 2009 documentary features directors Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich, and Henry Jaglom,...
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Always … But Not Forever
as DavidA middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning...
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Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place'
as SelfHenry Jaglom discusses the influence of such filmmakers as Fellini and Cassavetes on his work,...
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This Is Orson Welles
as SelfMisunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible...
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The Immortal Orson Welles
as HimselfDocumentary look at the final two decades of the Orson Welles's career, featuring interviews...
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Searching for Orson
as SelfNarrated by Peter Bogdanovich, this biography of Orson Welles includes the emotional memoirs of...
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Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
as HimselfWe all know Jack Nicholson the actor. But few know the history of Jack Nicholson the...
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Notes on the New York Film Festival
as SelfAn interview with Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom who were presenting films at the ninth New...
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