Stephen McEveety

Stephen Mark "Steve" McEveety (born November 4, 1954) is an American film producer with decades of experience in senior positions in the entertainment industry. He is the nephew of director Bernard McEveety.

McEveety is one of six children, and attended Notre Dame High School and Loyola Marymount University. He and his wife Susie have four children. As a child, Steve McEveety appeared in episodes of the TV series' Gunsmoke, My Three Sons, and Star Trek ("Miri", 1966). Later, he worked as an assistant director and production manager.

McEveety worked many years at Mel Gibson's Icon Productions where he executive produced What Women Want, Payback, Anna Karenina, Immortal Beloved, The Man Without a Face and Braveheart, the last of which gained ten Academy Award nominations and received five Oscars. McEveety produced The Passion of the Christ, Airborne, which he also wrote, as well as 187, Paparazzi, and We Were Soldiers.

After completing an exclusive producing deal with Icon, McEveety partnered with David Segel, John Shepherd and Todd Burns to launch Mpower Pictures. The company's first release was the Toronto Award Winning Bella. McEveety produced An American Carol, written & directed by David Zucker, and The Stoning of Soraya M., written & directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh, that took 2nd Runner-up at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival. Through Mpower Pictures McEveety also produced the movie Snowmen (October 2011), which won the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award, Runner-up, the Dallas International Film Festival Audience Award, the TIFF Sprockets Golden Sprocket Award and the Heartland Crystal Heart Award. Most recently, McEveety produced Machine Gun Preacher with Mpower Pictures, in association with a number of other companies.

In 2015, McEveety went on to produce Man Down, directed by Dito Montiel, starring Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, and Kate Mara. It was released by Lionsgate in late 2016.

Filmography He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film Year Film Credit 1991 Hot Shots! Associate producer 1993 The Man Without a Face Executive producer Airborne 1994 Immortal Beloved Executive producer 1995 Braveheart Executive producer 1997 Anna Karenina Executive producer One Eight Seven 1999 Payback Executive producer 2000 What Women Want Executive producer 2002 We Were Soldiers 2004 The Passion of the Christ Paparazzi 2006 Bella Executive producer 2008 The Stoning of Soraya M. An American Carol 2010 Snowmen 2015 Man Down 2019 The Devil Has a Name

Second unit director or assistant director

Year Film Role 1980 Herbie Goes Bananas Second assistant director 1981 The Devil and Max Devlin Zorro, The Gay Blade Force: Five 1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes First assistant director: Special effects 1985 Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend First assistant director Real Genius The Trip to Bountiful 1988 18 Again! 1989 Blood Red

Production manager

Year Film Role 1985 The Trip to Bountiful Unit production manager 1990 Flatliners Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael Production manager 1991 Hot Shots! Unit production manager 1992 Forever Young

Visual effects

Year Film Role 1979 The Black Hole Production assistant: Miniatures unit 1982 Tron Effects unit manager

As writer

Year Film 1993 Airborne

Thanks

Year Film Role 2015 Little Boy The producers wish to thank the following for their assistance

Television

Second unit director or assistant director

Year Title Role Notes 1979 The Sacketts Second assistant director Television film 1985 An Early Frost First assistant director 1986 The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation 1988 Street of Dreams

As an actor

Year Title Role Notes 1964 The Lieutenant Victor 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series Redheaded Boy S1:E8, "Miri" 1965−66 Gunsmoke BoyYoung Moreland Boy Uncredited 1967 Cimarron Strip 1st Boy 1964−68 My Three Sons BoySecond BoyKenny Uncredited

Production manager

Year Title Role Notes 1987 Thirtysomething Unit production manager Right to Die Production manager Television film 1989 The Revenge of Al Capone