Born December 14, 1945· Mount Vernon, New York, USA
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Raised in a Jewish family in Mount Vernon, New York, Kagan earned a Harvard B.A., studied at NYU’s Graduate Institute of Film & Television and was among the first students at the AFI Conservatory. He launched his feature career with Heroes (1977) and followed with The Big Fix (1978), The Chosen (1981) and The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), the first American film to win the Moscow International Fil…
