He co-wrote and directed the short film Jazzy for Joe (2014), a narrative comedy about, and starring, New York broadcaster Joe Franklin raising an abandoned baby, which premiered at BAMcinemaFest 2015. In 2013 Kline wrote and directed the short comedy Fowl Play, about a group of low-rent criminals fooled into buying a hen for a cockfight in Flushing, Queens.
He crewed on early work of filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie, and acted in their film John's Gone (2010), and in Michael M. He worked as an assistant to the archivist at New York film museum Anthology Film Archives, and for musicologists Billy Miller and Miriam Linna at their Norton label and Kicks Books imprint. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, studying illustration and film. He performed in provocative novelty bands in high school, released prank call CDs, and created xeroxed comics, joke books and zines. He acted in his adolescence in the independent films The Anniversary Party (2001) and Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and The Whale (2005), but did not pursue a subsequent career in acting, instead remaining in junior high school. At age 7, he fell ill, and during a two-week stay in the hospital was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. He has one younger sister, Greta Kline, a musician/singer-songwriter. Kline was born and raised in New York City, to actor Kevin Kline and actress Phoebe Cates. He is best known for his directorial debut Funny Pages (2022) and his performance as Frank Berkman in The Squid and the Whale (2005). Owen Joseph Kline (born October 14, 1991) is an American filmmaker and actor.
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