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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Carver, Steve (1945-)

Fechas de existencia:

1945-04-05 - existente actualmente

History:

Steve Carver was an American film director and producer. Carver studied Arts in University and was mainly interested in animation and photography. Thanks to a documentary that he filmed, he was able to join in 1970 the American Film Institute, where he could work with important film directors like George Stevens, George Seaton, Alfred Hitchcock and Charlton Heston. He was director assistant in the movie "Johnny Got His Gun" (1971) by Dalton Trumbo. Carver's last project in the American Film Institute was a short film based on a tale of Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart". After the success of the short film, he was hired by Roger Corman to work in New World Pictures, where he made trailers and wrote scripts as well. He directed his first movie also in New World Pictures: "Big Bad Mama" (1974). He worked for the 20th Century Fox with the movie "Capone" (1975). It should be noted that he filmed two successful movies with Chuck Norris: "An Eye for an Eye" (1981) and "Lone Wolf McQuade" (1983). After these films, he continued working on cinema business making lower quality television movies.