---
name: "Jon Cohen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jon-cohen"
fi1m_id: "jon-cohen"
imdb_id: "nm0169509"
tmdb_id: 2200
wikidata_id: "Q15069805"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:46:08.031074+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."
---

# Jon Cohen

## Identity

Jon Cohen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jon-cohen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jon-cohen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0169509
- **TMDB ID:** 2200
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15069805
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cohen_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15069805, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169509/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2200

Writer. Born 1 January 1953 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, United States
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cohen_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15069805, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169509/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2200

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Minority Report*](https://film.one/film/minority-report.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Jon Cohen is an American novelist and screenwriter. A native of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, he worked as a critical care nurse in Philadelphia before turning to writing. He taught himself screenwriting from books and published several novels, including *Max Lakeman and the Beautiful Stranger* (1991), *The Man in the Window* (1992) and *Dentist Man* (1993). He received a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1991.

Cohen received his first Hollywood assignment in 1997, rewriting a screenplay based on Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Minority Report” for director Jan de Bont. Steven Spielberg later brought in Scott Frank to revise the script further. Cohen shares screenplay credit with Frank on the 2002 film *Minority Report*. The pair won the Saturn Award for Best Writing. Cohen later published the novel *Harry’s Trees* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, scriptmag.com, jewishjournal.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Minority Report* (2002), Fi1m 81, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/minority-report.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *Minority Report* (2002), Screenplay — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/minority-report.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/jon-cohen