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Savage Steve Holland

Born 1958-04-29

Savage Steve Holland (born April 29, 1958) is an animator and director who wrote and directed the cult films Better Off Dead (1985) and One Crazy Summer (1986), starring John Cusack. He also directed the film How I Got Into College (1989), and animated the "Whammy" on the game show Press Your Luck. He later went on to create and produce Eek! the Cat for Fox Kids. Now, he manages his own studio, Savage Studios Ltd. and directs shows for Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts, where one of his student projects Going Nowhere Fast (1980), was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art show TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures. Holland is working on a new film, The Big One 3. The new film tells the story of a father who had a terrible 13th birthday party and goes to great lengths to make his son's birthday special. He is not to be confused with Steve Holland, a producer and writer with a similar name. Description above from the Wikipedia article Savage Steve Holland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Better Off Dead 1985 · 7.1 Legally Blondes 2009 · 3.7 Stuck in the Suburbs 2004 · 5.5 Sabrina: The Animated Series 1999 · 5.9 A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! 2011 · 3.8 Malibu Rescue 2019 · 5.1 Malibu Rescue 2019 · 5.6 A Fairly Odd Christmas 2013 · 4.3 Rufus 2016 · 5.4 Adventures in Love & Babysitting 2015 · 6.2 A Fairly Odd Summer 2014 · 3.7 Rufus-2 2017 · 5.3 National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son 2009 · 3.7