Jonathan Fredrick Lawton is a screenwriter and director. Screen credits include Pretty Woman, Mistress (1992 film), Blankman, Under Siege, and under the assumed name JD Athens Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death and Pizza Man starring Bill Maher. He is the son of Harry Lawton who wrote the book Tell them Willie Boy's Here which was made into a film starring Robert Blake (actor) and Robert Redford. Harry also founded the Creative Writing Program at the University of California at Riverside as well as helping found the California Museum of Photography and the Malki press.