Cast & creator
Jack Epps Jr.
Best known for Top Gun: Maverick, Kojak, Top Gun
Jack Epps Jr. (born November 3, 1949) is an American screenwriter, author, and educator known chiefly for such popular 1980s films as Top Gun, Legal Eagles, and The Secret of My Success, which he wrote with longtime partner Jim Cash. Epps Jr. graduated from the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University and has since gone on to teach at the University of Southern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Epps Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
16
film credits
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television credits
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1973–2025 · acting roles
6.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (17)
Showing 17 of 17 credits
Top Gun: Maverick
Characters
2022
Kojak
Writer
1973
Top Gun
Writer
1986
Anaconda
Original Film Writer
2025
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Story
2004
Anaconda
Producer
1997Anaconda
Writer
1997
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Screenplay
2000
The Secret of My Success
Screenplay
1987
Turner & Hooch
Screenplay
1989
Dick Tracy
Screenplay
1990
Legal Eagles
Screenplay
1986Top Gun 3
Characters
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Thanks
2018
Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun
Self
2004
The Pigs vs. The Freaks
Producer
1984The Pigs vs. The Freaks
Story
1984