Overview

• His daughter, filmmaker Sabrina Jaglom, said he died Monday night at home in Santa Monica with family present, including his son Simon and former wife Victoria Foyt.
• He wrote and directed more than 20 actor‑focused features, including A Safe Place, Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, Eating, Last Summer in the Hamptons, Babyfever and Déjà Vu.
• Jaglom often dispensed with scripts and rehearsals, favoring on‑camera improvisation and intimate, autobiographical stories.
• Born in London in 1938 to a Jewish family that fled Nazi Europe, he grew up in New York, trained at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg and worked on Easy Rider before his directing debut.
• A close friend of Orson Welles, he recorded conversations later published as My Lunches With Orson, and Welles’ final screen appearance came in Jaglom’s Someone to Love.