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Jon Macht (born March 21, 1960) is an American film and television writer, producer, and entertainment entrepreneur.

He is noted for writing co-writing the feature screenplay "Clairvoyant" with writing partner Dan Loschack in 1991 and for writing and producing "Best of Comedy Live" in 1995 starring comedian Jamie Kennedy, since this was the comedian's first television show performance, and for being an entertainment entrepreneur owing a video supply house that has supplied every studio, television network, and cable television network. He is the cousin of American actors Stephen Macht, Gabriel Macht, and American theatre and film musical lyricist Howard Ashman of "Little Shop of Horrors", "Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", and "Alladin".

Macht was born in Hagerstown, Maryland to Stanley and Naomi Macht, a radiologist and housewife. He attended North Hagerstown high school, and went on to attend both the University of Virginia where he graduated in 1982 with a degree in communications and the University of Southern California graduate school of Cinema-Television from 1982-1985.