Savage Steve Holland

Directing · Production · Writing · Creator · Acting

Born April 29, 1958, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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.

Filmography

• 2020Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave — Executive Producer, Characters, Director
• 2019Malibu Rescue — Story, Executive Producer, Director
• Malibu Rescue: The Series — Executive Producer, Director, Creator
• 2017Rufus 2 — Director
• Bizaardvark — Director
• 2016Rufus — Director
• School of Rock — Director
• 2015Bound & Babysitting — Director
• 100 Things to Do Before High School — Director
• 2014A Fairly Odd Summer — Director, Teleplay
• Kirby Buckets — Director
• 2014Santa Hunters — Director
• 2013A Fairly Odd Christmas — Director, Teleplay
• 2012Big Time Movie — Director
• Level Up — Director
• 2011A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! — Director
• The Twisted Whiskers Show — Creator
• Big Time Rush — Director
• JONAS L.A. — Director
• 2009Legally Blondes — Director
• 2009Ratko: The Dictator's Son — Director
• Zeke and Luther — Director
• Imagination Movers — Director
• 2007Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Field Trips, Permission Slips, Signs, and Weasels — Director
• Out of Jimmy's Head — Director
• 2007Shredderman Rules — Director
• Zoey 101 — Director
• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide — Director
• Phil of the Future — Director
• 2004Stuck in the Suburbs — Director
• Unfabulous — Director
• The Nick Cannon Show — Producer
• Lizzie McGuire — Director
• Even Stevens — Director
• Sabrina: The Animated Series — Executive Producer, Casting Director, Writer, Creator
• Shasta McNasty — Director
• 1998Safety Patrol! — Teleplay, Story, Director
• V.I.P. — Director
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show — Director
• 1993The Incredible Crash Dummies — Writer
• The Incredible Crash Dummies — Writer, Creator
• The Terrible Thunderlizards — Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• Eek! The Cat — Elmo the Elk (voice), Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
• 1991The Last Halloween — Director, Writer
• Encyclopedia Brown — Creator
• 1989How I Got Into College — Director
• 1989The Case of the Missing Time Capsule — Director
• The New Adventures of Beans Baxter — Writer, Director, Executive Producer
• 1986Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show — Director
• 1986One Crazy Summer — Director, Writer, Character Designer
• 1985Better Off Dead... — Director, Writer
• Press Your Luck
• Klutter! — Creator