Jon Turteltaub

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 Treasure: Book of Secrets, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Turteltaub produced the CBS television series, Jericho, and also directed the first three episodes, "Pilot", "Fallout", and "Four Horsemen".

Works

National Treasure: Edge of History

While searching for history's greatest treasure, Jess Valenzuela unburies her family's secret past.

Release Date: 2022-12-14

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 202

The Meg

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

Release Date: 2018-08-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7723

Rush Hour

The series follows Detective Carter, a radical LAPD detective, and Detective Lee, a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong, as they are forced into forming an unlikely partnership

Release Date: 2016-03-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 93

The Thousand Year Journey

Routine is the enemy of time. Jedidiah Jenkins rides his bicycle from Oregon to Patagonia, the southern tip of South America, while expounding upon ideas that made him leave a job he loved for the open road.

Release Date: 2015-08-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Last Vegas

Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.

Release Date: 2013-10-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2131

Common Law

Travis Marks and Wes Mitchell were LAPD's dream team on the homicide squad, but constant bickering got in the way of their work and the two ended up on probation. To revive their flagging professional relationship, their Captain sends them to couples therapy to help understand and resolve their conflicts.

Release Date: 2012-05-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 36

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

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 alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.

Release Date: 2010-07-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4972

Harper's Island

A group of family and friends travels to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They've come to laugh... to love... and, though they don't know it... to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets exposed as a murderer claims victims, one by one, transforming the wedding week of fun and celebration into a terrifying struggle for survival.

Release Date: 2009-04-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 238

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

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 must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Release Date: 2007-12-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5194

Jericho

Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.

Release Date: 2006-09-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 482

National Treasure

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.

Release Date: 2004-11-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6390

Role of a Lifetime

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 by assuming another identity.

Release Date: 2002-02-05

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1

The Kid

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-old version of himself who can't believe he could turn out so badly – with no life and no dog. With Rusty's help, Russ is able to reconcile the person he used to dream of being with the man he's actually become.

Release Date: 2000-07-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1026

Instinct

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

Release Date: 1999-06-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 613

From the Earth to the Moon

The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.

Release Date: 1998-04-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 106

RocketMan

Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.

Release Date: 1997-10-10

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 128

Phenomenon

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

Release Date: 1996-07-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1188

While You Were Sleeping

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 fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

Release Date: 1995-04-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1833

Cool Runnings

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.

Release Date: 1993-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2070

3 Ninjas

Each year, three brothers Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas visits their Japanese grandfather, Mori Shintaro whom the boys affectionately refer to as Grandpa, for the summer. Mori is a highly skilled in the fields of Martial arts and Ninjutsu, and for years he has trained the boys in his techniques. After an organized crime ring proves to be too much for the FBI, it's time for the 3 brother NINJAS! To use their martial arts skills, they team up to battle the crime ring and outwit some very persistent kidnappers!

Release Date: 1992-08-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 440

Driving Me Crazy

An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables and produces no pollution, but he runs into one madcap situation after another to find a buyer and financier for mass production.

Release Date: 1991-05-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 24

Think Big

Two truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.

Release Date: 1989-09-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 22

Whatever It Takes

A young couple moves to Hollywood to enter the music business.

Release Date: 1988-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Rocking the Boat

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 throwing reunion tours aboard luxury cruise ships. The movie follows four best friends from high school who were obsessed with a famous boy band back in the 90’s. Twenty years later, when the band announces a reunion tour aboard a cruise ship, our four women reunite and go on the ride of their lives to recapture who they were and who they always wanted to be. As they sail among their boy band teen idols and fellow superfans, friendships will be tested, alliances will be formed, and bad decisions will definitely be made.

Department: Production

Job: Producer