---
name: "Robert Kaplow"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-kaplow"
fi1m_id: "robert-kaplow"
imdb_id: "nm2904878"
tmdb_id: 1164689
wikidata_id: "Q7346262"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T03:42:17.238214+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."
---

# Robert Kaplow

## Identity

Robert Kaplow

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-kaplow
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-kaplow
- **IMDb ID:** nm2904878
- **TMDB ID:** 1164689
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7346262
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kaplow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7346262, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2904878/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1164689

Writer. Born 1 January 1950.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1950
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kaplow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7346262, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2904878/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1164689

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Blue Moon*](https://film.one/film/blue-moon.md) (78)

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

## Biography

Robert Kaplow is an American novelist, teacher and screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for the 2025 film *Blue Moon*, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart.

Kaplow’s coming-of-age novel *Me and Orson Welles* (2003) was adapted into a 2008 film directed by Linklater. He has written nine books and taught English and film studies at Summit High School in Summit, New Jersey, retiring after 34 years. He graduated from Rutgers University and lives in Metuchen, New Jersey.

*Sources: motionpictures.org, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, forward.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Blue Moon* (2025), Fi1m 78, as Radio Announcer — [page](https://film.one/film/blue-moon.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Blue Moon* (2025), as Radio Announcer · Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/blue-moon.md)
- *Me and Orson Welles* (2008), Novel

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2026: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Blue Moon*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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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/robert-kaplow