11 Facts About Owen Kline

Owen Joseph Kline was born on October 14,1991 and is an American filmmaker and actor.

Owen Kline is best known for his directorial debut Funny Pages and his performance as Frank Berkman in The Squid and the Whale.

Owen Kline's father is of German Jewish and Irish descent, and his mother has Russian Jewish and Chinese ancestry.

Owen Kline acted in his adolescence in the independent films The Anniversary Party and Noah Baumbach's The Squid and The Whale, but did not pursue a subsequent career in acting, instead remaining in junior high school.

Owen Kline co-edited his high school's comic book magazine, released prank call CDs, and self-published his own xeroxed comics, joke books and zines.

Owen Kline attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, studying illustration and film.

Owen Kline worked as an assistant to the archivist at New York film museum Anthology Film Archives, and for musicologists Billy Miller and Miriam Linna at their Norton label and Kicks Books imprint.

Owen Kline crewed on early work of filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie, and acted in their film John's Gone, and in Michael M Bilandic's films Hellaware, and Jobe'z World.

In 2013 Owen Kline wrote and directed the short comedy Fowl Play, about a group of low-rent criminals fooled into buying a hen for a cockfight in Flushing, Queens.

Owen Kline co-wrote and directed the short film Jazzy for Joe, a narrative comedy about, and starring, New York broadcaster Joe Franklin raising an abandoned baby, which premiered at BAMcinemaFest 2015.

Owen Kline spent six years continually writing, directing and editing his debut feature Funny Pages, a black comedy about a young dropout cartoonist striking out on his own in Trenton, New Jersey.