Steve Miner

Born: 18th June 1951
Where: Chicago, Illinois

Steve's film career began as a production assistant on corporate videos, which lead to production and post-production jobs with Time-Life Corporation educational films by the time Steve was in his early 20s.

He began his professional feature work as an editor on films directed by Sean S. Cunningham, starting with The Case of the Full Moon Murders and Here Come the Tigers.

His first big budget high profile project was Friday the 13th, also directed by Cunningham, who passed the directorial reins to his protege on the sequels Friday 13th Part 2 and Part 3.

Staying with the theme of horror, 1986 saw House on the big screen, directed by Steve, and in the same year he also directed Soul Man.

Steve's TV debut came in the shape of the Wonder Years, for which he directed the pilot episode and could have only imagined the huge international success the series would eventually gain. The first season and a half of the comedy series, which he supervised as a producer, garnered Steve an Emmy nomination.

For the first half of the 90s, Steve directed features like Forever Young, Warlock and My Father The Hero. In 1994 he directed an episode of medical drama Chicago Hope and had further TV success with the hugely popular teen series, Dawson's Creek.

He then directed Halloween: H20, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Lake Placid, and then Texas Rangers.