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Sam Irvin is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He was born on June 14, 1956 in Asheville, North Carolina. He is best known for directing the films "Return to the Blue Lagoon" (1991), "The Haunting of Seacliff Inn" (1994), and "The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue" (1998). Irvin began his career in the entertainment industry as an actor, appearing in the television series "The Waltons" (1977) and "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979). He then moved into directing, producing, and writing for television, working on shows such as "The New Leave It to Beaver" (1984-1989), "Tales from the Crypt" (1989-1996), and "Touched by an Angel" (1994-2003). Irvin has also directed several feature films, including "Return to the Blue Lagoon" (1991), "The Haunting of Seacliff Inn" (1994), and "The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue" (1998). As of 2021, Sam Irvin's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Occupation Film director, producer, screenwriter, actor
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 14 June, 1956
Birthday 14 June
Birthplace Asheville, North Carolina
Nationality United States

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2020

Subsequently, Irvin did all the special features for Shout! Factory's acclaimed 2020 Blu-ray release of Frankenstein: The True Story -- including a three-hour audio commentary plus newly-filmed interviews with Jane Seymour, Leonard Whiting and co-screenwriter Don Bachardy.

Most recently, Irvin authored Sam's Toilet Paper Caper!, a children's book parody, illustrated by Dan Gallagher. The book was inspired by Irvin's own real-life quest to find toilet paper during the 2020 pandemic paper panic. Drenched in movie references from The Sound of Music to Carrie, the grocery store clerk is a dead ringer for Peter Lorre. Published by Irvin's own imprint, Knuckle Samwitch Books, it is available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.com. All profits from the sales of the book are being donated to the World Heath Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

2018

Irvin also won a second Rondo Award for Best Interview of the Year for "Elvira Exposed!", an in-depth interview with Cassandra Peterson published in Screem magazine #36 in 2018.

2017

Irvin was the Guest Editor of a special issue of Little Shoppe of Horrors No. 38 focusing on the making of Frankenstein: The True Story, published June 2017, including Irvin's 50,000-word chronicle on the movie which won the 2017 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Article of the Year. The magazine also included Irvin's exclusive interviews with Leonard Whiting, Jane Seymour, David McCallum, Nicola Pagett, Don Bachardy, among many others. The issue also features an exclusive never-before-published essay on the writing of the movie by the late Christopher Isherwood and his partner Don Bachardy. Irvin also arranged for a special Foreword by best-selling author Anne Rice and an essay by Mark Gatiss, the co-creator of Sherlock.

2016

Irvin resides in Los Angeles with Gary Bowers, his partner since 1982. They married August 12, 2016.

2013

In 2013, Irvin was extensively interviewed on camera by filmmaker Robert Fischer about his experiences on the set of The Fury for The Fury: A Location Journal, a 50-minute bonus feature that is included on the 2013 Blu-ray DVD release of The Fury distributed by Arrow Films in the U.K. and Ireland and by Carlotta Films in France. In its October 26, 2013 issue, Telegraph Magazine (the weekly supplement to London's popular daily newspaper The Telegraph) ran a full-page story and photo of Irvin reminiscing about his time on the set of The Fury.

As a noted expert on the career of Vincent Price, Irvin appears as an on-camera authority in Constantine Nasr's 2013 documentary House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen, also featuring exclusive on-camera interviews with Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante, Wes Craven, Rick Baker, and Victoria Price. The 48-minute documentary is featured as an extra on Warner Home Video's 2013 3D Blu-ray edition of House of Wax (1953) starring Vincent Price.

Between projects, Irvin has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts where he taught graduate courses on directing. Among his former students is Ryan Coogler, acclaimed writer-director of Fruitvale Station, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Un Certain Regard award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Coogler has since directed the acclaimed hit Creed starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone; and the Marvel superhero movie Black Panther.

2010

Irvin's first book, Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise, was published by Simon & Schuster (November 2010) and was honored by Kirkus Reviews and The Theatre Library Association Awards as one of the "Best Biographies of 2010." Acclaimed by columnist Liz Smith as "a smashing work," and by entertainer Michael Feinstein as "one of the best showbiz bios I've ever read." This comprehensive biography covers the life and career of the legendary singer-actress-composer-arranger-author-fashionista Kay Thompson. She was the mentor/best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru to Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne, the mentor and longtime lover of Andy Williams, and the godmother/Svengali to Liza Minnelli (who recreated Thompson's nightclub act in the 2009 Tony Award-winning event Liza's at the Palace).

2009

In connection with his research on the life of Thompson, Irvin served as a historical consultant on the Tony Award-winning Broadway event Liza's at the Palace. He produced and annotated the 2009 3-CD box set compilation Think Pink! A Kay Thompson Party (Sepia Records) and he appeared in and consulted on Paramount Home Entertainment's documentary Kay Thompson: Think Pink! (an extra included in Paramount's Centennial Collection DVD edition of Stanley Donen's Funny Face starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson).

2007

And for the Fox Network opening of the 2007 Allstate Sugar Bowl, Irvin directed "Dueling Musicians" shot on the streets of New Orleans (broadcast January 3, 2007).

2005

Irvin directed several segments for the Fox Network's 2005 Super Bowl XXXIX including several comedy sketches starring Eugene Levy as a nutty gadget inventor trying to improve the entertainment value of football. Other vignettes included Will Smith, Drew Barrymore, and Jimmy Fallon. Irvin also directed the surrealistic opening battle between ninja warriors and football players.

2003

Also for television, Irvin directed the opening of The 100th Anniversary of the World Series (October 18, 2003) for the Fox Network (a "through the ages" montage featuring the music of and starring Sheila E).

1985

Irvin's first directorial effort, which he also wrote and produced, was the 1985 dark comedy short Double Negative, which starred Bill Randolph, Justin Henry, Wayne Knight, Dori Legg, and William Finley. It premiered as an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently played theatrically in New York and Los Angeles as a warm-up for various feature films. It was nominated for a Gold Hugo Award for Best Short Film at the 1985 Chicago International Film Festival. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that it was "an exceptionally promising first effort." Double Negative is included as an extra bonus feature on the 2013 Blu-ray DVD release of Brian DePalma's The Fury distributed by Arrow Films in the U.K. and Ireland and by Carlotta Films in France.

1980

During the 1980s, Irvin served as Vice President of Marketing for three film distributors: United Artists Classics, Spectrafilm, and Vestron. During this period, Irvin won The Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards for designing the movie posters for François Truffaut’s Confidentially Yours and Paul Verhoeven’s The Fourth Man. He also helped spearhead the record-breaking year-long run of Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva in New York City.

1978

In 1978, Irvin graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts. While attending the university, he was the film critic for The Gamecock, the campus newspaper, and won a student film award for his thesis short film. He was also chairman of the University of South Carolina Film Committee that ran a year-round cinema program at the campus theater.

After graduating from the University of South Carolina in May 1978, Irvin worked as the Associate Producer and Production Manager on Brian De Palma's Home Movies. Then, Irvin worked as De Palma's assistant on Dressed to Kill starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon.

1977

During his summer break in 1977, Irvin interned at the Chicago shooting location for Brian De Palma’s The Fury. He worked on the feature as a production assistant, an extra, and also wrote a journal on the making of the movie that was published in Cinefantastique magazine, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1978. Irvin also conducted an exclusive interview with Amy Irving in which, for the first time anywhere, she discussed her relationship with Steven Spielberg; it was published in Cinefantastique, Vol 6, No. 4 / Vol. 7, No. 1, 1978.

1972

As a teenager, Irvin edited and published two issues of the fanzine Pit (69-70), and four annual issues of Bizarre (1972–1975), a fanzine on fantasy, horror and science fiction films, for which he twice traveled to England to conduct in-person interviews, including Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Jane Seymour, Joan Collins, Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, Sir James Carreras, Michael Carreras, etc.

1956

Sam Irvin (born June 14, 1956) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, actor, author and film teacher.