Jonathan Charles Turteltaub (born August 8, 1963) is an American film director and producer.
[2] Jon Turteltaub has directed successful mainstream films for the Walt Disney Studios, including; 3 Ninjas (1992), Cool Runnings (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Phenomenon (1996), Instinct (1999), Disney's The Kid (2000), National Treasure (2004), as well as its 2007 sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010), as well as The Meg (2018) for Warner Brothers.
[7] Turteltaub is married to British television writer and producer Amy Eldon, co-founder of Creative Visions Foundation.
[8] Amy's brother photojournalist Dan Eldon was stoned to death alongside several other journalists in Somalia in 1993.
[11] Ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Turteltaub directed an anti-Trump video for the Lincoln Project.