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cleveland , ohio 18 july 1947 jonathan-taplin . jpg jonathan taplin
 jonathan taplin film producer , writer
jonathan taplin

jonathan trumbull taplin -lrb- born july 18 , 1947 -rrb- is an american writer , film producer and scholar .
he was born in cleveland , ohio and has lived in los angeles since 1973 .
taplin graduated from princeton university in 1969 and is currently the director of the annenberg innovation lab at the university of southern california annenberg school for communication and journalism .
taplin is married to the photographer maggie smith and has three children : daniela lundberg , a film producer ; nicholas taplin , a recording engineer and blythe taplin , a human rights lawyer .
taplin 's early production work included producing concerts for bob dylan and the band .
in 1973 he produced martin scorsese 's first major feature film , `` mean streets '' which was selected for the cannes film festival .
between 1974 and 1996 , taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries -lrb- including `` the prize '' and `` cadillac desert '' for the public broadcasting service -rrb- and 12 feature films including `` the last waltz '' , `` until the end of the world '' , `` under fire '' and `` to die for '' .
his films were nominated for academy awards and golden globe awards and chosen for the cannes film festival six times .
taplin is the author of `` outlaw blues : adventures in the counter-culture wars , '' an enhanced ebook from annenberg press .
