A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Born:
August 8, 1963
Jonathan Charles "Jon" Turteltaub is an American film director and producer. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the son of television comedy writer Saul Turteltaub. He has directed several successful mainstream films for the Walt Disney Studios, including; 3 Ninjas (1992), Cool Runnings (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Phenomenon (1996), Instinct (1999), Disney's The Kid (2000), 2004's National Treasure, as well as its 2007 sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Turteltaub produced the CBS television series, Jericho, and also directed the first three episodes, "Pilot", "Fallout", and "Four Horsemen".
Director:
1988 Whatever It Takes
1989 Think Big
1991 Driving Me Crazy
1992 3 Ninjas
1993 Cool Runnings
1995 While You Were Sleeping
1996 Phenomenon
1999 Instinct
2000 The Kid
2004 National Treasure
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2013 Last Vegas
2018 The Meg
Executive Producer:
1988 Whatever It Takes
1989 Think Big
1991 Driving Me Crazy
1992 3 Ninjas
1993 Cool Runnings
1995 While You Were Sleeping
1996 Phenomenon
1997 RocketMan
1999 Instinct
2000 The Kid
2002 Role of a Lifetime
2004 National Treasure
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2013 Last Vegas
2015 The Thousand Year Journey
2018 The Meg
Producer:
1988 Whatever It Takes
1989 Think Big
1991 Driving Me Crazy
1992 3 Ninjas
1993 Cool Runnings
1995 While You Were Sleeping
1996 Phenomenon
1997 RocketMan
1999 Instinct
2000 The Kid
2002 Role of a Lifetime
2004 National Treasure
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2013 Last Vegas
2015 The Thousand Year Journey
2018 The Meg
???? Rock The Boat
Screenplay:
1988 Whatever It Takes
1989 Think Big
1991 Driving Me Crazy
1992 3 Ninjas
1993 Cool Runnings
1995 While You Were Sleeping
1996 Phenomenon
1997 RocketMan
1999 Instinct
2000 The Kid
2002 Role of a Lifetime
2004 National Treasure
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2013 Last Vegas
2015 The Thousand Year Journey
2018 The Meg
???? Rock The Boat
Writer:
1988 Whatever It Takes
1989 Think Big
1991 Driving Me Crazy
1992 3 Ninjas
1993 Cool Runnings
1995 While You Were Sleeping
1996 Phenomenon
1997 RocketMan
1999 Instinct
2000 The Kid
2002 Role of a Lifetime
2004 National Treasure
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2013 Last Vegas
2015 The Thousand Year Journey
2018 The Meg
???? Rock The Boat
Creator:
2006 Jericho
Director:
1998 From the Earth to the Moon
2006 Jericho
2009 Harper's Island
2012 Common Law
Executive Producer:
1998 From the Earth to the Moon
2006 Jericho
2009 Harper's Island
2012 Common Law
2022 National Treasure: Edge of History
Producer:
1998 From the Earth to the Moon
2006 Jericho
2009 Harper's Island
2012 Common Law
2022 National Treasure: Edge of History
Writer:
1998 From the Earth to the Moon
2006 Jericho
2009 Harper's Island
2012 Common Law
2016 Rush Hour
2022 National Treasure: Edge of History
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.