[2] Kaplan received five Emmy nominations for his roles directing and producing the television series ER.
[3] Kaplan started his career as a child actor in the Broadway production of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs directed by Elia Kazan.
That movie was an even larger success but then Kaplan made what he describes as "the biggest failure of my career", Mr. Billion (1977), an attempt to launch Terence Hill to international audiences.
"[3] During the early 1980s, Kaplan directed some movies for television and many music videos, including several for John Cougar Mellencamp, and Rod Stewart's "Infatuation" in 1984.
His feature film career revived in 1988, when The Accused (1988) earned Jodie Foster her first Oscar, for Best Actress.