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John Randal Kleiser[1] (born July 20, 1946) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter and actor, best known for directing the 1978 musical romantic-comedy film Grease.

Randal Kleiser
Born	John Randal Kleiser (1946-07-20) July 20, 1946 (age 76) Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Southern California
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1962–present

Biography

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John Randal Kleiser was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, the son of Harriet Kelly (née Means) and Dr. John Raymond Kleiser. He has two brothers.[1] Kleiser attended Radnor High School.[2][3]

As a freshman at the University of Southern California, he appeared in George Lucas' student film Freiheit. (Kleiser also lived in the house that Lucas was renting at the time.)[4] Kleiser graduated in 1968.[5] His award-winning Master's thesis film Peege launched his career and was selected for preservation by the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2007.[6]

Kleiser directed several television movies in the mid-1970s, including Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1975) and The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1975), which starred John Travolta. Kleiser was tapped to direct his first feature film, the 1978 film Grease, in large part because of Travolta's recommendation based on their work together on The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.[7]

Kleiser directed several more feature films, including 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).[8] In 1996, he wrote and directed It's My Party. 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). In 1987, he had an agreement with upstart diversified film studio Management Company Entertainment Group to develop, direct and produce low-budget pictures that were financed by the studio, and he will shepherd indie projects of promising students and decided to build various international directors on its own.[9]

Working in 70mm 3-D, he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (1995) for the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo and Paris, re-teaming with most of the principal actors from Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. His television movies 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).

He taught a graduate 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.^{[citation needed]} Working with the Graphics Lab at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, he helped develop a digital Cinerama-like process called Vistarama HD.^{[citation needed]}

Kleiser was the main force in planning and filming Red Riding Hood (2004/2006). The work broke new ground in digital cinematography through the extensive use of interactive virtual sets. During 2006 in Lisbon, this movie was released for its debut at the 1st International Digital Cinema Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Kleiser was inducted into Radnor High School's Hall of Fame on October 20, 2006. He was Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts' Filmmaker in Residence for Fall 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Kleiser is openly gay.[10]

Filmography

Feature films

Filmmaking credits

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes
1976	Street People	No	No	Yes	Italian: Gli esecutori
1978	Grease	Yes	No	No	Directorial debut
1980	The Blue Lagoon	Yes	Yes	No
1982	Summer Lovers	Yes	No	Yes
1984	Grandview, U.S.A.	Yes	No	No
1986	Flight of the Navigator	Yes	No	No
1987	North Shore	No	Executive	Story
1988	Big Top Pee-wee	Yes	No	No
1989	Getting It Right	Yes	Yes	No
1991	White Fang	Yes	No	No
	Return to the Blue Lagoon	No	Executive	No
1992	Honey, I Blew Up the Kid	Yes	No	No
1996	It's My Party	Yes	Yes	Yes
1998	Shadow of Doubt	Yes	No	No
1999	How to Get There	No	Yes	No
2005	Love Wrecked	Yes	No	No
2006	Red Riding Hood	Yes	No	No	Also arranger of the song "Lil' Red Riding Hood"
2020	Life After the Navigator	No	Executive	No	Documentary making-of film

Acting credits

Year	Title	Role
1981	Rich and Famous	Literary Party Guest
1988	Big Top Pee-wee	Popcorn vendor
1996	Cannes Man	Director
1998	Susan's Plan	Doctor #1
1999	Crazy in Alabama	Bob
2001	Circuit	Doctor

Other credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	The Legend of Bigfoot	Cpi	Documentary film

Short films

Filmmaking credits

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1964	Orgy Beach Party	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unfinished; also editor, camera operator and composer
1973	Peege	Yes	Yes	No	Also editor
	Foot Fetish	Yes	Yes	No
1994	Honey, I Shrunk the Audience	Yes	No	No	Theme park film
2017	The Speech JFK Never Gave	Yes	No	No

Acting credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962	The Pursuit	Unknown
1964	Captain America vs. The Mutant	Steve Rogers / Captain America
1966	Freiheit	Boy
1967	Glut	Unknown	Also editor

Other credits

Year	Title	Role
2001	The Princess and the Pea	Production advisor
2015	Arctic Plunge	Technical advisor

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1974–1975	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Yes	No	No	4 episodes
1975	Lucas Tanner	Yes	No	No	Episode: "Bonus Baby"
	All Together Now	Yes	No	No	TV movie
1975–1977	Starsky and Hutch	Yes	No	No	3 episodes
1976	The Rookies	Yes	No	No	Episode: "From Out of the Darkness"
	Family	Yes	No	No	2 episodes
	Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway	Yes	No	No	TV movie
	The Boy in the Plastic Bubble	Yes	No	No	TV movie
1977	ABC Weekend Specials	Yes	Yes	No	Episode: "Portrait of Grandpa Doc"; also editor
	The Gathering	Yes	No	No	TV movie
1995	New York News	Yes	No	No	Unknown episodes
1999	Royal Standard	Yes	No	No	TV movie
2010	The Nina Foch Course for Filmmakers and Actors	Yes	No	Yes	16 episodes
2019	Defrost: The Virtual Series	Yes	Yes	Yes	TV movie

Awards

• Nominee, Best Director - Saturn Awards, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
• Nominee, Best Director - Saturn Awards, Flight of the Navigator

References

External links

• Randal Kleiser at IMDb
• Official website
• Filmsbug.com
• DGA.org
• Ninafochproject.com

На других языках

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[ru] Клайзер, Рэндал

Джон Рэндал Клайзер (англ. John Randal Kleiser; род. 20 июля 1946 года, Филадельфия, штат Пенсильвания, США) — американский кинорежиссёр, сценарист и продюсер. На родине известен в первую очередь как режиссёр музыкального фильма «Бриолин». В России известен как режиссёр фильмов «Полёт навигатора», «Голубая лагуна» и др.

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