Savage Steve Holland

Savage Steve Holland is an American film and television director, writer, producer, animator and voice actor most known for directing Better Off Dead 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 and The Terrible Thunderlizards for Fox Kids.

Holland now manages his own studio, Savage Studios Ltd., and directs shows for Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.

Biography From a young age, Holland had an avid interest in animation, and went to the California Institute of the Arts. While there, he became more interested in filmmaking and made a semi-autobiographical short titled My 11-Year-Old Birthday Party, which played at some minor film festivals and ended up opening the LA Film Festival. Another one of his student projects, Going Nowhere Fast (1980), was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art show Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures. Through Henry Winkler, who saw his work and liked it, Holland soon landed a deal to direct his first feature. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to successfully "sell" the film at the time, but hopes to make it in the future. "That's kind of my dream script," he said. "That's the one I wanna make and then I just wanna, like, go off into the sunset."

In 2016, he was reportedly developing a potential semi-sequel to One Crazy Summer with Bobcat Goldthwait, one of the film's original stars, but was unsure if Cusack and Demi Moore would return to reprise their roles.

Filmography Films Better Off Dead (1985) One Crazy Summer (1986) How I Got into College (1989) The Last Halloween (1991) The Incredible Crash Dummies (1993) (writer only) Safety Patrol (1998) Stuck in the Suburbs (2004) Shredderman Rules (2007) Legally Blondes (2009) Ratko: The Dictator's Son (2009) A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011) Big Time Movie (2012) A Fairly Odd Christmas (2012) A Fairly Odd Summer (2014) Santa Hunters (2014) Rufus (2016) Rufus 2 (2017) Malibu Rescue: The Movie (2019) Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave (2020)

Television series Press Your Luck (1983–1986) (designer and animator of the "Whammy", all episodes) Saturday Night Live (1988–1990) (assistant director for two seasons) The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (1987–1988) (wrote and directed most episodes) Encyclopedia Brown (1989–1990) (director) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990–1991) (writer) Eek! the Cat (1992–1998) (co-creator, executive producer, and wrote most of the episodes) The Terrible Thunderlizards (1993–1997) (co-creator, executive producer, writer) Klutter! (1995–1996) (co-creator, executive producer, writer, voice actor) The Puzzle Place (1994–1998) (directed 2 episodes) V.I.P. (1998–2002) (directed many episodes) Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997–1998) (directed 3 episodes) Sabrina: The Animated Series (1999) (creator, developer, casting director, voice director and executive producer) Even Stevens (2000–2002) (directed 3 episodes) Lizzie McGuire (2001–2003) (directed 9 episodes) Phil of the Future (2004) (directed 4 episodes) Unfabulous (2005–2007) (directed 7 episodes) Zoey 101 (2005–2007) (directed 5 episodes) Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2005–2007) (directed 11 episodes, 1 of them the one-hour series finale) Zeke and Luther (2009–2011) (directed 11 episodes) Big Time Rush (2009–2013) (directed 20 episodes, 5 of them being 2-part specials) Kirby Buckets (2014–2017) (directed 6 episodes) School of Rock (2016) (directed 1 episode) Bizaardvark (2016) (directed 3 episodes) Malibu Rescue (2019) (creator)