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Jonathan Frederick "J. F." Lawton (born August 11, 1960) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. Lawton is most prolific as a scriptwriter: his writing credits include the box office hit ''Pretty Woman'', for which he was BAFTA-nominated, Hollywood tale ''Mistress'', superhero comedy ''Blankman'', and action movies ''Under Siege'', ''Chain Reaction'' and ''DOA: Dead or Alive''. Lawton directed Christopher Lambert film ''The Hunted'', and award-winning day in the life tale ''Jackson''. He was creator and sometime director of Pamela Anderson TV series ''V.I.P.'' Under the assumed name ''J.D. Athens'', he previously wrote and directed movies ''Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death'' and ''Pizza Man''. ==Early life== Lawton was born on August 11, 1960, in Riverside, California.〔 He is the son of author and novelist Harry Lawton and Georgeann Leona Lawton (née Honegger), a pianist. The couple met in Berkeley while attending the University of California. They later moved to Riverside, where Harry was hired as a reporter for The Press-Enterprise. As a child, he suffered from severe dyslexia making school life very difficult. It took him many years of practice and hard work to control his learning disabilities. Despite the challenge, he decided to become a writer like his father. Harry Lawton made sure to give him as much incentive as possible. To this day Lawton credits his father for always being supportive of him, and his mother for going the extra mile to help him overcome his obstacles. When Lawton was still in elementary school, his father's novel, ''Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt'',〔 was made into a film starring Robert Redford. During the making of ''Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here'', Harry Lawton would take J.F. to the set, exposing him to the process of filmmaking. From that moment on, fascinated, he determined that he would become a screenwriter. Always curious, Lawton would observe his surroundings and write about them, although due to his dyslexia, it would take him double the time to put his stories down on paper. In high school, he continued to write short stories, plays, and scripts. After graduating from John W. North High School in Riverside, he enrolled at California State University in Long Beach to study filmmaking.〔 There he wrote, directed and edited two short films, ''The Artist'' and ''Renaissance''.〔 The first was a futuristic thriller placed in which the main character kills his victims, takes their pictures and puts them in his art exhibitions. The second, ''Renaissance'', was a short horror film in which a sadistic sexual predator, dominates and kills his victim every night, but revives her the next morning only to start the cycle all over again. Both shorts won awards on the college circuit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. F. Lawton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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