Jonathan Kaplan, director for TV and films including “The Accused,” who was Emmy-nominated five times for “ER,” died on Friday in Los Angeles. His daughter Molly said the cause was advanced liver cancer. He was 77.
The son of film composer Sol Kaplan and actress Frances Heflin, Kaplan was born in Paris before moving to Los Angeles and then New York at a young age. As a child, he acted on the stage, notably appearing in Elia Kazan’s Broadway production of “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.” After graduating the University of Chicago, he studied film under Martin Scorsese at New York University. In 1967, he completed
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