Randal Kleiser
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Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film director and producer.
Randal Kleiser has directed several feature films, including Grease (1978), Other features include The Blue Lagoon (1980) with Brooke Shields, Summer Lovers (1982) with Daryl Hannah, Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) with Jamie Lee Curtis, Flight of the Navigator (1986), featuring the first use of digital morphing in a film, Big Top Pee-wee (1988), White Fang (1991) and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992).
In London, Kleiser directed the comedy Getting It Right (1989), starring Lynn Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Jane Horrocks and Sir John Gielgud. In 1996, he wrote and directed It's My Party, starring Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant, Bruce Davison and Marlee Matlin. As a writer-producer, he was responsible for the surfing film North Shore (1987) for Universal Pictures. He also directed the thriller Shadow of Doubt (1998) with Melanie Griffith and Tom Berenger. Working in 70mm 3-D, he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (1995) at the Disney Theme Parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo and Paris. His television films include The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) with John Travolta, the Emmy-Award winning The Gathering (1977) and Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976).
As a freshman at the University of Southern California, Kleiser appeared in George Lucas' first student film Freiheit. Kleiser's award winning Master's thesis film Peege launched his career. He has taught a graduation workshop at USC and Masters Directing Classes for European students at film festivals in Deuville and Sarlat, and Malaga. He serves as a judge on the Student Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and as chairman of the Academic Subcommittee for the Directors Guild of America, he inaugurated a videoconferencing program to connect film classes with working directors. Working with the Graphics Lab at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, he has co-invented a digital Cinerama-like process called Vistarama HD.
The long time good friend of George Lucas since film school at USC and Digital Film avant, Randall Kleiser was the marshall force in planning, filming, and during two years of computer lab post-production of the original experimental movie musical shot on virtual sets entitled Red Riding Hood (2004). New Digital Film equipment and experts from around the globe, were invited and made a point to be involved in the filming. Red Riding Hood (2004) features pre-programed and linked to cameras, live and reproducible in-real-time layered virtual reality effects. Dancing along are Joey Fatone, Lainie Kazan, Morgan Thompson as "Red", and popular star Henry Cavill as a chivalrous hunter Baron... The light romantic Lovewrecked starring Amanda Bynes was shot in the Caribbean. Kleiser is developing Silver Metal Lover for Dimensional Pictures.
Kleiser's house was used in the film Scream 3. Kleiser was inducted into Radnor High School's Hall of Fame on October 20, 2006.
