Jeremy Kagan

Jeremy Kagan, born December 14, 1945 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA, is a motion picture director and producer. He was an episode director for the first season of Boomtown and helmed the episode "Crash". He also directed the films Heroes (1977), The Chosen (1981), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), and Roswell (1994).
==Biography==
===Earlier career===
Kagan's feature film credits include the box-office hit Heroes (1977), about veterans returning from the Vietnam War, The Big Fix, a political thriller with Richard Dreyfuss, The Chosen (1981) from the classic book of the same name by Chaim Potok, and The Journey of Natty Gann, the first American movie ever to win the Gold Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival, the underground comedy Big Man On Campus, and the hybrid film Golda's Balcony from the hit play of the same name. In 1991 the cult classic film By The Sword was released.
He has also been a prolific television director, starting already in 1972 at the age of 26, directing The Most Crucial Game (starring Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Valerie Harper, Val Avery, Susan Howard, Dean Stockwell among others), a dynamic and intriguing episode in the second Columbo season. In 1996, Kagan won an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the Chicago Hope episode "Leave of Absence". Other credits include the television movie Katherine: The Making of an American Revolutionary, which he also wrote, and Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 for which he won the CableACE Award for Best Dramatic Special. Kagan also directed Roswell: The UFO Conspiracy, which garnered a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Other television films include The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Courage with Sophia Loren, Scott Joplin, Descending Angel for HBO and for Showtime Color of Justice, Bobbie's Girl, and Crown Heights, about the riots in 1991 which won the Humanitas Award in 2004 for "affirming the dignity of every person." This film also received an NAACP Image Award and the Directors Guild nomination for best family film. Kagan also directed a movie episode of Steven Spielberg's Emmy winning Taken. He has worked on several other series shows including The West Wing, The Guardian, Resurrection Blvd., Picket Fences, and more.
===Boomtown===
He joined the crew of Boomtown as an episode director for the first season in fall 2002. He helmed the eighth episode "Crash".
===Later career===
Kagan produced and directed the ten-part series The ACLU Freedom Files, in 2006 and 2007 which received a number of awards and was shown on Link TV, Court TV and PBS. Kagan recently made a number of short documentaries and advocacy films for NGOs including The Doe Fund which works with the homeless and formerly incarcerated, and The Democracy School a movement developing local governance, and Bioneers which advances achievements in environmental and social justice.
==Credit==
===Director===
==External links==
*Jeremy Kagan at IMDb
*Jeremy Kagan at Wikipedia
*Jeremy Kagan at the Justified wiki
Category:Directors