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Profile of Randal Kleiser
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Randal Kleiser |
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20th July 1946 |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film director and producer.
Randal Kleiser has been an internationally known film director since the release of his first feature Grease (1978), the most successful movie musical ever made. Other features include The Blue Lagoon with Brooke Shields, Summer Lovers with Daryl Hannah, Grandview, U.S.A. with Jamie Lee Curtis, Flight of the Navigator, featuring the first use of digital morphing in a motion picture, Big Top Pee-wee, White Fang and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.
In London, Kleiser directed the critically acclaimed comedy Getting It Right, starring Lynn Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Jane Horricks 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 classic North Shore for Universal Pictures. He also directed the thriller Shadow of Doubt with Melanie Griffith and Tom Berenger. Working in 70mm 3-D, he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Audience at the Disney Theme Parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo and Paris. His television films include The Boy in the Plastic Bubble with John Travolta, the Emmy-Award winning The Gathering and Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway.
As a freshman as USC, 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 for the 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.
Kleiser is developing Silver Metal Lover for Dimensional Pictures, is currently in post-production with an original movie musical shot on virtual sets, Red Riding Hood starring Joey Fatome and Lainie Kazan, and is in post-production on Lovewrecked starring Amanda Bynes, shot in the Caribbean. His house was used in the film Scream 3.
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