Kasdan

	Kasdan Kasdan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jake Kasdan (born 1974), American actor, film director, and screenwriter Jon Kasdan (born 1979), American actor and film director Lawrence Kasdan (born 1949), American film director, producer, and screenwriter Mark Kasdan (born 1941), American screenwriter and film producer , American actress and screenwriter Ruth Kasdan (1918–2008), Swedish actress and singer See also * * Kazhdan * Aniq Kasdan (born 2002), Malaysian weightlifter, Kasdan is a patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic. Patronymics are used, b ... {{surname Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lawrence Kasdan Lawrence Edward Kasdan (born January 14, 1949) is an American filmmaker. He is the co-writer of the ''Star Wars'' films '' The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), '' Return of the Jedi'' (1983), '' The Force Awakens'' (2015), and '' Solo: A Star Wars Story'' (2018). He also wrote '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981) and '' The Bodyguard'' (1992), and is the writer-director of '' Body Heat'' (1981), '' The Big Chill'' (1983), '' Silverado'' (1985), '' The Accidental Tourist'' (1988), and ''Dreamcatcher'' (2003). Kasdan is known for updating old Hollywood genres—film noir, science fiction, westerns—in a classical dramatic style with quick-witted dialogue, but dealing with contemporary social themes. As a director, he has made various personal films that examine characters and generations. Kasdan has been nominated for four Academy Awards: as a producer for Best Picture nominee ''The Accidental Tourist'', for which he was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and for Best Origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jake Kasdan Jacob Kasdan (born October 28, 1974) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing ''Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story'' (2007), ''Bad Teacher'' (2011), ''Sex Tape (film), Sex Tape'' (2014), ''Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle'' (2017), ''Jumanji: The Next Level'' (2019), and ''Red One (film), Red One'' (2024). Early life Jacob Kasdan was born to Meg (née Goldman), a writer, and Lawrence Kasdan, a writer and director, in Detroit. Jacob grew up in a Jewish family with little religious education. His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer. Career Jake Kasdan has directed nine films. He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow as a consulting producer and director on ''Freaks and Geeks'' and as a director on ''Undeclared''. He has directed numerous stage productions. He is attached to direct a family film adaption of a John Grisham novel, ''Calico Joe.'' In 2008, Kasdan received his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jon Kasdan Jonathan Peter Kasdan (born September 30, 1979) is an American film and television screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. Early life and career Jonathan Kasdan was born to Meg (née Goldman), a writer and Lawrence Kasdan, a writer and director in Los Angeles. Jon grew up in a Jewish family with little religious education. Jon is the younger brother of director and actor Jake Kasdan. Jon's directorial debut, '' In the Land of Women'', was released in the United States in 2007. He also wrote the screenplay for the film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. Jon Kasdan has worked as a writer for the American television series ''Freaks and Geeks'', and as an actor in ''Dawson's Creek'' and ''Dreamcatcher''. His acting debut was in 1983 in his father's film, '' The Big Chill''. Jon was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cell called lymphocytes, where mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Aniq Kasdan Mohamad Aniq bin Kasdan (born 16 June 2002) is a Malaysian weightlifter. He won the silver medal in the Clean & Jerk men's 55 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He was the first Malaysian weightlifter to win a medal in the World Weightlifting Championships. Career In 2021, Aniq won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He also won a bronze medal at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi. In 2022, Aniq participated in the Commonwealth Games weightlifting 55 kg category. He set a new Games record of 142 kg in Clean & Jerk, won Malaysia's first medal and first gold medal in the Games. In August 2024, Aniq competed in the men's 61 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mark Kasdan Mark Kasdan is an American screenwriter and film producer known for such films as ''Criminal Law'', '' Silverado'', ''Dreamcatcher'', and '' Horizon: An American Saga''. Filmography References External links * Living people American male screenwriters Film producers from Louisiana Jewish American screenwriters 1941 births 21st-century American Jews American people of German descent People from Louisiana People from Hammond, Louisiana Mark Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currenc ... {{US-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ruth Kasdan Ruth Kasdan (1918–2008) was a Swedish stage and film actress and singer. She appeared in the 1945 romantic comedy ' alongside Åke Grönberg and . Selected filmography * '' Prince Gustaf'' (1944) * '' The Girls in Smaland'' (1945) * ' (1945) * ''When Love Came to the Village'' (1950) * ''In the Arms of the Sea'' (1951) * ''The Beat of Wings in the Night'' (1953) * ''The Cats The Cats may refer to: * The Cats (Dutch band), a Dutch rock band * The Cats (reggae band), a British reggae band * Cats U.K., a British pop band * ''The Cats'' (album), a 1957 jazz album featuring Tommy Flanagan and John Coltrane * ''The Cats'' (1 ...'' (1965) References Bibliography * Steene, Birgitta. ''Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide''. Amsterdam University Press, 2005. * Wright, Rochelle. ''The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film''. SIU Press, 1998. External links * 1918 births 2008 deaths Swedish film actresses Swedish stage actresses 20th-century Swedish actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kazhdan Kazhdan, also written as Kajdan, Kazdan, Každan, is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Kazhdan - historian, byzantinist * David Kazhdan - mathematician. * Jerry Kazdan - mathematician See also * * * Kasdan Kasdan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jake Kasdan (born 1974), American actor, film director, and screenwriter Jon Kasdan (born 1979), American actor and film director Lawrence Kasdan (born 1949), American film director, ... Kashtan {{Surname Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic. Patronymics are used, by custom or official policy, in many countries worldwide, although elsewhere their use has been replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (surname), Johnson (son of John). Origins of terms The usual noun and adjective in English is ''patronymic'', but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside ''patronym''. The first part of the word ''patronym'' comes from Greek language, Greek πατήρ ''patēr'' 'father' (Genitive case, GEN πατρός ''patros'' whence the combining form πατρο- ''patro''-); the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα ''onyma'', a variant form of ὄνομα ''onoma'' 'name'. In the form ''patronymic'', this stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]