Jon was born in Trenton, New Jersey to a high school German teacher and a French seamstress, who met in North Africa in the middle of World War II. He grew up in the Appalachian foothills near Elizabethtown PA, where he was active as a Boy Scout and enjoyed hiking and camping. His family moved back to New Jersey where he attended high school in Woodbury. He was active there in art and music, had his own band, and became very interested in photography. He then attended the Philadelphia College of Art (which later became the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He excelled as a photo-film major, and produced and directed his first dramatic studio short film on the schools sound stage. After college he joined the Air Force to fly cargo transports just for fun. He left that to study communication, still having an interest in films. He took up computer programming and moved to LA, where he found his way back into the movie business taking lots of acting parts in mostly independent films. He produced and directed numerous short films through his own indie company, Out in the Street Films, and continues to work on and act in his own films and other independent projects.

Recently released three of my shorts films to DVD on Amazon.com; Eight-ish, Bank Issues, and Hey Democrats