Scott Kalvert was a director who began his career in the late 1980s, making music videos for performers such as Will Smith and Cyndi Lauper, and went on to direct the 1995 feature film The Basketball Diaries, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as poet and rock musician Jim Carroll.

Kalvert grew up in New York City and graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a film degree in 1985. He won his first MTV video contest while he was still a student. The award led to a directing job with a New York production company and the launch of his career in the booming world of music videos.

He hit it big with his first major video, "Parents Just Don't Understand," the Grammy-winning song by hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, a.k.a. Will Smith.

A fixture on MTV, he also directed videos for artists such as Cindy Lauper, Bobby Brown, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, the hip-hop group fronted by Mark Wahlberg before he emarked on an acting career.

Kalvert died March 5, 2014, in Woodland Hills, California. He was 49.