{{short description|American movie producer and director|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{More footnotes|date=June 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}} '''Bruce Kent Bateman'''<ref>Stated during Jason Bateman's appearance on ''Inside the Actors Studio'', September 7, 2009</ref> is an American film producer and director.

{{Infobox person | name = Kent Bateman | birth_name = Bruce Kent Bateman | birth_date = | birth_place = | occupation = {{cslist|Actor|filmmaker}} | children = {{unbulleted list|Justine Bateman|Jason Bateman}} }}

==Personal life== Bateman is the father of actors Jason Bateman<ref>{{Cite web|last= |first= |date=2020-07-17|title=Movies on TV this week: 'Spartacus' on TCM|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-07-17/movies-on-tv-this-week-sunday-july-19-2020|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> and Justine Bateman.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Genaenet|date=|title=Geneanet|url=https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=bateman&oc=0&p=bruce+kent|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> Kent Bateman was a film producer for Ealing Films (not to be confused with the British studio) in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Newton, Massachusetts.

==Filmography== *1971 ''The Headless Eyes'' – Director / Screenwriter *1976 ''Death on Credit'' – Actor *1981 ''Land of No Return'' – Director / Producer / Screenwriter *1987 ''Teen Wolf Too'' – Producer *1988 ''Moving Target'' (NBC Movie of the Week) (starring his son, Jason Bateman) -- Executive Director, Producer *1992 ''Breaking the Rules'' – Actor: Mr. Stepler / Producer

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0060809}}

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