"Henry Jaglom, the maverick film-maker best known for a string of low-budget, fiercely independent dramas made over more than 50 years as well as his friendship with Orson Welles, has died aged 87. His daughter Sabrina Jaglom told Deadline: My father passed at home on Monday with my brother Simon and I and [former wife] Victoria Foyt by his side."
"Born in London in 1938 to a Jewish family forced to leave Germany earlier in the decade, Jaglom relocated to the US with his family and grew up in New York. Originally embarking on a career as an actor, he studied at the Actors Studio and became a contract player for Columbia Pictures, winning small roles in films such as Psych Out, Drive, He Said and The Last Movie, and TV shows such as Gidget and The Flying Nun."
"However he swiftly found his metier as a director in the cinema counterculture of the time, making his debut in 1971 with the offbeat fable A Safe Place, starring Tuesday Weld and Jack Nicholson, in which Welles appeared as a magician. Its 1976 follow-up, Tracks, starring Dennis Hopper as a Vietnam veteran, was one of the first American films to deal with the psychological fallout from the conflict."
Henry Jaglom was born in London in 1938 to a Jewish family that fled Germany and later relocated to the United States, growing up in New York. He trained as an actor at the Actors Studio and worked as a contract player for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films and television. He emerged as a director within the cinema counterculture, debuting in 1971 with A Safe Place and following with Tracks, an early American film addressing Vietnam’s psychological aftermath. Jaglom financed his later films independently, focused on actor-centered stories, and remained a regular presence at international film festivals.
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