Biography
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 ma…
Directed
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1982) — Director
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A Safe Place (1971) — Director
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Tracks (1976) — Director
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Déjà Vu (1998) — Director
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Someone to Love (1987) — Director
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New Year's Day (1990) — Director
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Sitting Ducks (1980) — Director
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Hollywood Dreams (2007) — Director
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983) — Director
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Queen of the Lot (2010) — Director
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Irene in Time (2009) — Director
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Eating (1990) — Director
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Always … But Not Forever (1985) — Director
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Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995) — Director
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Going Shopping (2005) — Director
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Festival in Cannes (2001) — Director
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The M Word (2014) — Director
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Venice/Venice (1992) — Director
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Babyfever (1994) — Director
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Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2012) — Director
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Ovation (2016) — Director
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Train to Zakopané (2017) — Director
Also appeared in
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The Other Side of the Wind (2018) — Henry Jaglom
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) — Self
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The Last Movie (1971) — Minister's Son
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) — Self
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004) — Self
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Psych-Out (1968) — Warren
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) — Self - Filmmaker and Orson's Friend
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Drive, He Said (1971) — Conrad
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Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson (2019) — Self
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I Am Richard Pryor (2019) — Self - Actor and Director
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Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021) — Self
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Someone to Love (1987) — Danny Sapir
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New Year's Day (1990) — Drew
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This Is Orson Welles (2015) — Self
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Sitting Ducks (1980) — The Bad Guy
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The Thousand Plane Raid (1969) — Worchek
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Orson Welles: Shadows & Light (2015) — Himself
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Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997) — Self
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Always … But Not Forever (1985) — David
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Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995) — Max Berger
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Edge of Outside (2006) — Self
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Venice/Venice (1992) — Dean
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Scene Missing (2012) — Self
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Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood (2017) — Self
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Searching for Orson (2006) — Self
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Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs (1998) — Self
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Notes on the New York Film Festival (1971) — Self
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Out of the Blue and Into the Black (1987) — Self
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On the tracks of a filmmaker (1988) — Henry Jaglom
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Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director (2024) — Self
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The Immortal Orson Welles (2019) — Himself
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Henry Jaglom Finds 'A Safe Place' (2010) — Self
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BBStory: An American Film Renaissance (2010) — Self
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Everyone Asked About You (2025) — Henri
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Now, Irving Rapper (2026) — Self