Jonathan Sanger
| Jonathan Sanger | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 21, 1944 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A |
| Residence | Northridge, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Film Director, Producer, Media Consultant |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Notable work | The Elephant Man, Vanilla Sky, Flight Of The Navigator, Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall, Frances |
| Spouse(s) | Carla Sanger |
| Children | David Sanger and Christopher Sanger |
Jonathan Sanger (born April 21, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film, television, and theater producer and director.
Sanger spent much of his early childhood traveling with his family around Central and South America. Sanger’s interest in theater stemmed from his undergraduate years at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Chairman of the Board of The Pennsylvania Players, and President of the Performing Arts Council. At the graduate level, Sanger attended the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, studying documentary and biography based filmmaking. After graduating, Sanger joined the Peace Corps in a special program with an emphasis on television and film production. Sanger was assigned to help create an Educational Television station in Montevideo, Uruguay. He later transferred to Bogota, Colombia, to make films for ICODES, the Colombian Institute of Social Development. After his Peace Corps term was completed, Sanger worked on documentary films in Ecuador, Chile and Mexico for NBC's International Zone. Soon after, he became Associate Editor for Americás, a cultural magazine published by The Organization of American States, where he wrote and translated articles. Sanger was contracted by the Encyclopædia Britannica to write the article on Bogotá, Colombia for Britannica 3.
In 1971 Sanger was accepted as a member of the Directors Guild of America Training Program, and worked on several films shot in New York City, among which were Across 110th Street, Harry and Tonto and Next Stop, Greenwich Village. Moving to Los Angeles in 1976, Sanger worked for Lorimar Television on the network Television series The Blue Knight and Eight Is Enough. In 1978 he was Mel Brooks' Assistant Director on High Anxiety, which led to a long professional association. For Brooks' wife, Anne Bancroft's feature directorial debut Fatso, Sanger served as Associate Producer. During this period Sanger had acquired the rights to the script of The Elephant Man. Sanger bought the script to Brooks' newly created independent production company, and The Elephant Man was chosen as the company’s first project; it was Sanger's debut feature film producing credit. It received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and was awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Film in 1980 and the French César Award for Best Foreign Film.
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