Jeff Kanew
Film director
1944 –
Who is Jeff Kanew?
Jeffrey Roger Kanew is an American film director, writer and editor who early in his career made trailers for many films of the 1970s and is probably best known for directing the film Revenge of the Nerds. and for editing "Ordinary People"
Kanew directed Gotcha! and Tough Guys, the final film pairing actors Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. He also directed Douglas in 1983's Eddie Macon's Run, Troop Beverly Hills starring Shelley Long, V.I. Warshawski starring Kathleen Turner, Natural Enemies starring Hal Holbrook and Louise Fletcher, Babij Jar a holocaust drama, National Lampoon's Adam and Eve, several TV episodes, and the stage and video versions of the Kirk Douglas one man show "Before I Forget".
Kanew also directed the documentary Black Rodeo capturing the events surrounding the first ever performance of an all-black rodeo in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City.
Kanew's son, Justin Kanew, is a reality show contestant from season 15 and season 18 of The Amazing Race.
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- Born
- Dec 16, 1944
New York City - Also known as
- Jeffrey Roger Kanew
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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