Jake Kasdan

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Jake Kasdan (born Jacob Kasdan 1975) is an American television and film director. He is the son of famed writer/director Lawrence Kasdan and Meg (Goldman), a writer.^[1] His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer.

Kasdan has directed four theatrical films: Zero Effect (1998) , Orange County (2002), The TV Set (2007), and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow, as a consulting producer on Freaks and Geeks and as a director on Undeclared. He has also directed numerous stage productions.

As a child, he made several 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).

Contents 1 Trivia 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Trivia

• Kasdan spent his early years as a bodyguard for a Los Angeles-based funk-rock band.^{[citation needed]}
• It has been noted that Jake Kasdan's voice bears a striking resemblance to his father's.

[edit] Filmography

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
• The TV Set (2007)
• Orange County (2002)
• Zero Effect (1998)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jake Kasdan at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Films directed by Jake Kasdan Zero Effect (1998) • Orange County (2002) • The TV Set (2007) • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)