---
name: "Don Jakoby"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/don-jakoby"
fi1m_id: "don-jakoby"
imdb_id: "nm0415979"
tmdb_id: 51346
wikidata_id: "Q3035798"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T19:22:59.444670+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Don Jakoby

## Identity

Don Jakoby

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/don-jakoby
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** don-jakoby
- **IMDb ID:** nm0415979
- **TMDB ID:** 51346
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3035798
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3035798, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0415979/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51346

Writer. Born 1 January 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953
- **Active:** 1983–1985
- **Frequently works with:** [Dan O'Bannon](https://film.one/person/dan-obannon.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3035798, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0415979/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51346

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Blue Thunder*](https://film.one/film/blue-thunder.md) (71)
- **Apple TV:** [*Lifeforce*](https://film.one/film/lifeforce.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Don Jakoby is an American screenwriter and producer. He received a co-writing credit on the screenplay for the 1983 action film *Blue Thunder*, directed by John Badham and starring Roy Scheider.

Jakoby frequently collaborated with screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, sharing credits on *Lifeforce* (1985), *Invaders from Mars* (1986) and other projects. His other screenplay credits include *Arachnophobia* (1990), *Double Team* (1997), *Vampires* (1998) and *Evolution* (2001). He has also worked as a producer on several of these films and is credited under the pseudonym Michael Edmonds on *Death Wish 3* (1985). He received two award nominations, including a Fangoria Chainsaw Award nomination for *Vampires*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, the-numbers.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Lifeforce* (1985), Fi1m 65, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/lifeforce.md)
- *Blue Thunder* (1983), Fi1m 71, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/blue-thunder.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Evolution* (2001), Screenplay
- *Vampires* (1998), Screenplay
- *Double Team* (1997), Screenplay, Producer
- *Philadelphia Experiment II* (1993), Characters
- *Arachnophobia* (1990), Screenplay, Co-Producer, Story
- *Invaders from Mars* (1986), Screenplay
- *Death Wish 3* (1985), Writer
- *Lifeforce* (1985), Screenplay — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/lifeforce.md)
- *The Philadelphia Experiment* (1984), Story
- *Blue Thunder* (1984), series, Writer, Story
- *Blue Thunder* (1983), Screenplay — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/blue-thunder.md)

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