Robert Mark Kamen

Robert Mark Kamen is a screenwriter with twenty-one films to his credit. A native of the Bronx, he attended New York City public schools, and graduated from NYU with a degree in literature, later earning his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

After spending a year in Afghanistan in 1971, Robert wrote a novel based on his experience. At the urging of a director friend, he turned the novel into a screenplay, bought by Warner Brothers in 1979. His second screenplay, TAPS, was released in 1980. This fall sees Robert’s twentieth feature, COLOMBIANA, released and his twenty-first film, TAKEN 2, begin production.

For the past sixteen years, he has been a frequent collaborator with director/producer Luc Besson. In addition to being a full-time screenwriter, Robert grows grapes and makes wine on the vineyard he built thirty-one years ago in Sonoma, California.