Jeannot Szwarc, the French director recognized for Jaws 2, Supergirl and The Rockford Recordsdata, has died. He was 85.
Jane Seymour, who starred alongside the late Christopher Reeve in Szwarc’s 1980 movie Someplace in Time, introduced the director’s demise Wednesday with a heartfelt assertion on social media.
“In the present day, we are saying goodbye to a real visionary,” she wrote on Instagram. “Jeannot Szwarc was not only a sensible director however a sort and beneficiant soul. He gifted us many timeless tales, together with Someplace in Time, a movie that modified my life perpetually. Might his reminiscence be a blessing, and should his artistry dwell on in our hearts.”
Producer Jeffrey Kramer, who labored with Szwarc on a number of titles through the years, wrote on Instagram, “RIP my expensive JEANNOT SZWARC One of many most interesting most gifted souls I used to be privileged to know!”
Born Nov. 21, 1939 in Paris, Szwarc graduated from Harvard College earlier than he started directing episodes of TV reveals like Ironside, It Takes a Thief, The Virginian, Columbo, The New Perry Mason, The Six Million Greenback Man, Kojak and The Rockford Recordsdata via the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s.
Roy Scheider and director Jeannot Szwarc on the set of ‘Jaws 2’ (1978) (Common Footage/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Along with directing films like Excessive Shut-Up (1973), Bug (1975) Enigma (1982) and Santa Claus: The Film (1985), Szwarc continued working in tv via the a long time on JAG, CSI: Miami, Ally McBeal, Smallville, Heroes, Bones, Supernatural, Designated Survivor, Gray’s Anatomy, Fringe, Scandal and Fort.