Jake Kasdan

Born: 1974-10-28

Jake Kasdan (born Jacob Kasdan; 28 October 1974) is an American television and film director. Kasdan was born in Detroit, the son of Meg (née Goldman), a writer, and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan.  His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer. He is married to singer/songwriter Inara George of The Bird and the Bee. Kasdan has directed seven films: Zero Effect (1998), Orange County (2002), The TV Set (2006), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Bad Teacher (2011), Sex Tape (2014), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow as a consulting producer and director on Freaks and Geeks and as a director on Undeclared. He has directed numerous stage productions. He is attached to direct a family film adaption of a John Grisham novel, Calico Joe. In 2008, Kasdan received his first Golden Globe nomination for Walk Hard in the Best Original Song category (shared with John C. Reilly, Apatow, and Marshall Crenshaw), but lost to "Guaranteed" from Into the Wild (written by Eddie Vedder). As a child, Kasdan made appearances in his father's movies such as The Big Chill and Silverado (in the former he is an autograph seeker at a funeral and in the latter a stable boy). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Kasdan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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Silverado

as Stable Boy
Released: 1985-07-10

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do...

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The Big Chill

as Autograph Seeker
Released: 1983-09-30

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

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The Accidental Tourist

as Scott Canfield
Released: 1988-12-23

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life....

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Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary

as Self
Released: 2018-08-02

The creators and actors from the TV show 'Freaks and Geeks' share their untold stories and...

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Shades of Ray

as Director #3
Released: 2008-10-18

American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep....

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