John Randal Kleiser was born on July 20,1946 and is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter and actor, best known for directing the 1978 musical romantic-comedy film Grease.
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11 Facts About Randal Kleiser
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John Randal Kleiser was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, the son of Harriet Kelly and Dr John Raymond Kleiser.
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Randal Kleiser's award-winning Master's thesis film Peege launched his career and was selected for preservation by the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2007.
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Randal Kleiser directed several television movies in the mid-1970s, including Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway and The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, which starred John Travolta.
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Randal Kleiser was tapped to direct his first feature film, the 1978 film Grease, in large part because of Travolta's recommendation based on their work together on The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.
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Randal Kleiser directed several more feature films, including The Blue Lagoon with Brooke Shields, Summer Lovers with Daryl Hannah, Grandview, USA with Jamie Lee Curtis, Flight of the Navigator, featuring the first use of digital morphing in a film, Big Top Pee-wee, White Fang and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.
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Randal Kleiser taught a graduate workshop at USC and Masters Directing Classes for European students at film festivals in Deuville and Sarlat, and Malaga.
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Randal Kleiser serves as a judge on the Student Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; and, as chairman of the Academic Subcommittee for the Directors Guild of America, he inaugurated a videoconferencing program to connect film classes with working directors.
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Randal Kleiser was the main force in planning and filming Red Riding Hood.
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Randal Kleiser was inducted into Radnor High School's Hall of Fame on October 20,2006.
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Randal Kleiser was Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts' Filmmaker in Residence for Fall 2010.
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