Jake Kasdan (born Jacob Kasdan 1975) is an American television and film director. He is the son of famed writer/director Lawrence Kasdan and Meg (Goldman), a writer. His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer.
Kasdan has directed four theatrical films: Zero Effect (1998) , Orange County (2002), The TV Set (2007), and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow, as a consulting producer on Freaks and Geeks and as a director on Undeclared. He has also directed numerous stage productions.
As a child, he made several appearances in his father's movies such as The Big Chill and Silverado (in the former he is an autograph seeker at a funeral and in the latter a stable boy).
Son of Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan.
Brother of Jon Kasdan.
