Jeannot Szwarc

Jeannot Szwarc November 21 1939 January 14 2025 was a French film director Szwarc was born in Paris He began working as a director in US television during the 1960s in particular on Ironside He is also associated with The Rockford Files Kojak Night Gallery JAG Bones Numb3rs and Columbo His feature films include Bug 1975 Jaws 2 1978 Somewhere in Time 1980 Supergirl 1984 and Santa Claus The Movie 1985 Since then he has mainly directed television movies and series In 2003 Szwarc joined the crew of The WB television series Smallville as a director One of the major episodes he directed was Homecoming the 200th episode of Smallville He also directed six episodes of Heroes at least once for each season