Jon Wilkman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles. His television series Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood was named one of the year's top ten programs by the New York Daily News and the Wall Street Journal, and nominated for three Emmy Awards, including for writing. Wilkman is also the author, with his late wife, Nancy, of two books about Los Angeles. He is currently at work on a documentary about the St. Francis Dam disaster.