Biography
Jonathan Charles "Jon" Turteltaub is an American film director and producer. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the son of television comedy writer Saul Turteltaub. He has directed several successful mainstream films for the Walt Disney Studios, including; 3 Ninjas (1992), Cool Runnings (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Phenomenon (1996), Instinct (1999), Disney's The Kid (2000), 2004's National Treasure, as well as its 2007 sequel National...
Complete Filmography
The Meg
2018
Director
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Sh...
The Thousand Year Journey
2015
Executive Producer
Routine is the enemy of time. Jedidiah Jenkins rides his bicycle from Oregon to Patagonia, the southern tip of South America, while expounding upon id...
Last Vegas
2013
Director
Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four ...
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2010
Director
Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alo...
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
Producer, Director
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben ...
National Treasure
2004
Director, Producer
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas J...
Role of a Lifetime
2002
Executive Producer
A has-been actor drops from public view and is presumed dead and when Hollywood decides to make a movie about his life, he decides to make a comeback ...
The Kid
2000
Director, Producer
Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-ol...
Instinct
1999
Director
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven...
RocketMan
1997
Executive Producer
An accident-prone and obnoxious geek joins a NASA space mission to Mars. During the flight, he manages to put himself and the entire crew in jeopardy,...
Phenomenon
1996
Director
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
While You Were Sleeping
1995
Director
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...
Cool Runnings
1993
Director
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
3 Ninjas
1992
Director
Each year, three brothers Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas visits their Japanese grandfather, Mori Shintaro whom the boys affectionately refer to a...
Driving Me Crazy
1991
Director, Screenplay
An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables an...
Think Big
1989
Director, Writer
Two truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.
Whatever It Takes
1988
Director
A young couple moves to Hollywood to enter the music business.
Rocking the Boat
N/A
Producer
The pic is a female-driven comedy inspired by the hilarious real-life phenomenon of boy bands such as Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block throwi...
The Best Is Yet To Come
N/A
Director
Through a colossal misunderstanding that creates a ticking clock, best friends hop in a car to find the estranged son of one of them and try to do all...
The Complete Game
N/A
Director, Producer
Baseball player Paul Goldschmidt and director Jon Turteltaub unite for a documentary pulling back the curtain on Major League Baseball