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Ken Kwapis (Kenneth William Kwapis) was born on 17 August, 1957 in East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S., is an American director and scriptwriter (born 1957). Discover Ken Kwapis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Kenneth William Kwapis
Occupation Film and television director, screenwriter, author
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 17 August 1957
Birthday 17 August
Birthplace East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1957

Kenneth William Kwapis (born August 17, 1957) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and author.

1982

Kwapis' twenty-four-minute thesis film, For Heaven's Sake, won the Student Academy Award in 1982.

The film is a contemporary adaptation of Mozart's one-act opera Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario).

Kwapis is married to author and film director Marisa Silver, with whom he has two sons: Henry and Oliver.

1983

In 1983, Kwapis directed Revenge of the Nerd for CBS' Afternoon Playhouse, followed by Summer Switch for ABC's Afterschool Special.

Starring Robert Klein, Summer Switch is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, the sequel to a young adult fantasy, Freaky Friday.

For the Scholastic Book Company, Kwapis directed his first feature film The Beniker Gang, starring Andrew McCarthy.

1985

Kwapis next film was Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (Warner Bros., 1985).

The film was the big-screen debut of the Sesame Street ensemble (Big Bird, Oscar The Grouch, The Count, Cookie Monster, Grover, Bert and Ernie, et al.).

Follow That Bird tells the story of Big Bird's quest to return to his family on Sesame Street when a social worker arranges for Big Bird to move in with a family of his own kind, the Dodo Birds, in Oceanview, Illinois.

1987

In 1987, Kwapis made his prime time television debut, directing an installment of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.

1988

Kwapis second feature Vibes (Columbia, 1988) was made under Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's fledgling Imagine banner.

Written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, Vibes is the tale of two psychics (Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper) who are enlisted by a fortune hunter (Peter Falk) to divine the whereabouts of a treasure hidden in the Andes.

The film was shot on location in Ecuador, and features a pan pipe-flavored score by James Horner.

1990

He specialized in the single-camera sitcom in the 1990s and 2000s and has directed feature films such as Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), and He's Just Not That Into You (2009).

Kwapis was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and grew up in neighboring Belleville.

He is the son of Marge (Wells) and Bruno Walter Kwapis, who was an oral surgeon.

He is of Polish descent and was raised Catholic, attending the Jesuit preparatory academy St. Louis University High School.

He earned a Bachelor's degree at Northwestern University's School of Speech, after which he traveled west to enroll in the M.F.A. program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.

Kwapis began the 1990s with a feature-film project, He Said, She Said (Paramount, 1991)—co-directed by his now-wife Marisa Silver.

The film, written by Brian Hohlfeld, is a romantic comedy in which the same events are recounted twice—once from each partner's point of view.

The woman's (Elizabeth Perkins) portion of the film was directed by Silver and the man's (Kevin Bacon) by Kwapis.

The film also features Sharon Stone and Nathan Lane.

Silver gave the film its title, based on a phrase that has been used to mean either "cross-gender discourse" or "testimony in direct conflict."

Kwapis then moved into series television, directing the pilot of HBO's comedy The Larry Sanders Show, which influenced many subsequent shows.

He directed twelve episodes of the series.

Kwapis also contributed two episodes to the sci-fi series Eerie, Indiana.

In the late 1990s, Kwapis directed two episodes of NBC's short-lived cult following show Freaks and Geeks.

1996

Kwapis fourth feature, Dunston Checks In (Twentieth Century Fox, 1996), stars Jason Alexander as the manager of a grand hotel in New York City, which is owned and operated by a tyrant in the Leona Helmsley mold (Faye Dunaway).

An aristocrat of dubious origin (Rupert Everett) checks into the hotel with an orangutan jewel thief.

1997

Kwapis next film, The Beautician and the Beast (Paramount, 1997), evokes the Ruritanian comedies of Ernst Lubitsch.

Fran Drescher plays a New York cosmetologist who is mistakenly hired to tutor the children of the despotic president of Slovetzia (Timothy Dalton).

2000

In the first decade of the 2000s, Kwapis directed nineteen episodes of Fox's Malcolm in the Middle, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his work as a producer-director.

2001

In 2001, Kwapis helped develop The Bernie Mac Show for Fox, directing the pilot and ten additional episodes, including the series finale, "Bernie's Angels".

Also for Fox, Kwapis was one of the main creative forces behind Grounded for Life, a hybrid comedy combining single- and multi-camera techniques.

Kwapis experimented with the form even further in the pilot of Watching Ellie, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' follow-up to Seinfeld.

The distinctive pilot has a story that unfolds in real time, with an on-screen clock.

Playing the role of Ellie's ex-boyfriend is Steve Carell, with whom Kwapis would shortly collaborate on his next major project.

2005

In 2005, Kwapis was instrumental in adapting the BBC mockumentary, The Office, for American television under the same title, for NBC.

He directed the pilot and had a significant impact on the look of the entire program—including the iconic set design.