- Born
- Birth nameHerman Andrew Stephens
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Andrew Stevens, President/CEO of Andrew Stevens Entertainment and Stevens Entertainment Group, has produced and/or financed one hundred and eighty films through his various production and distribution companies. Unique in the motion picture industry, Stevens has functioned in almost every capacity in the entertainment business, from creative development of motion picture stories and screenplays, to foreign sales, distribution, post-production, deliveries and collections. He is an accomplished screenwriter, director, as well as prolific producer, academic author of several academic books, an educator and public speaker and was a successful actor for more than 20 years. Outside of the entertainment business, Stevens has been successful in both commercial and residential real estate development, song-writing for film, with 9 credited songs in film and 6 in TV to date, community service working with elderly patients with dementia, and E-Sports.
Active since January 2003, his company has developed, produced and/or arranged the financing for more than thirty motion pictures, including the newly completed Send It!, which he also directed, All good Things, 47 Hours the Lifetime movie, The Wrong Affair, Half Past Dead 2, Walking: Tall Lone Justice, Walking: the Payback, the SyFy Channel films, Fire From Below, Mongolian Death Worm and Mandrake, 7 Seconds and The Marksman, both starring Wesley Snipes, Black Dawn starring Steven Seagal, Pursued starring Christian Slater, Blessed starring Heather Graham, Method, starring Elizabeth Hurley, to name a few.
including 7 Seconds (2005) and
The Marksman (2005), both
starring Wesley Snipes,
Black Dawn (2005) starring
Steven Seagal,
Pursued (2004) starring
Christian Slater,
Blessed (2004) starring
Heather Graham,
Method (2004), starring
Elizabeth Hurley, and
Silent Partner (2005), starring
Tara Reid.
From 1997 through 2002, Stevens co-founded, and served as President and
Chief Operating Officer of Franchise Pictures, an independent film
production and distribution company with a domestic theatrical output
deal with Warner Bros. During his five-and-a-half tenure at Franchise,
Stevens produced or executive produced and provided the finance or
co-finance for more than 60 feature films including the enormously
successful
The Whole Nine Yards (2000),
and its sequel
The Whole Ten Yards (2004),
both starring Bruce Willis and
Matthew Perry,
The In-Laws (2003), starring
Michael Douglas and
Albert Brooks,
Angel Eyes (2001) starring
Jennifer Lopez and
Jim Caviezel,
City by the Sea (2002) starring
Robert De Niro,
The Pledge (2001) starring
Jack Nicholson,
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001),
starring Kevin Costner and
Kurt Russell,
Half Past Dead (2002) starring
Steven Seagal.
Stevens was also responsible for creating Franchise Classics, a
division which produced and distributed many films which appeared in
such major film festivals as Cannes, Sundance Film Festival and Toronto
Film Festival including
The Big Kahuna (1999), starring
Kevin Spacey,
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000),
starring Cameron Diaz and
Glenn Close,
Green Dragon (2001), starring
Forest Whitaker and
Patrick Swayze, and
The Caveman's Valentine (2001),
starring Samuel L. Jackson. Concurrent
with the formation of Franchise, Stevens co-founded and served as
president of a sister company, Phoenician Entertainment which produced
such films as
The Third Miracle (1999),
starring Ed Harris and
Anne Heche,
Entropy (1999), starring
Stephen Dorff and U2,
Woman Wanted (1999), starring
Kiefer Sutherland and
Holly Hunter, and many genre
action/adventure films.
Prior to Franchise and Phoenician, Stevens was an owner and president
of Royal Oaks Entertainment, which produced and/or distributed seventy
pictures over a three-year period including many HBO, Showtime and
Sci-Fi Channel world premieres. Prior to Royal Oaks, Stevens' initial venturing
into foreign sales and production company ownership was with Sunset
Films International, which amassed a library of nineteen titles,
(including seven in-house productions) during his first year as
president of the company.
Stevens serves on the board of directors of the International Film and
Television Alliance, (the former American Film Marketing Association)
and until recently served as Chairman of the Independent Producers
Association (IPA), which is, among other things, active in collective
bargaining for independent producers and film companies. Stevens has
been involved in many guild negotiations with both the Screen Actors
Guild (SAG) and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) on behalf of the
constituency of independent producers and was a key architect of the
current DGA/IPA multi-tiered low-budget agreement.
Stevens was a award-winning actor, including a Golden Globe
nomination and the Star of Tomorrow award from the National Association
of Theatre Owners (NATO) starring in over 80 feature films and/or
television series.
Stevens authored a fully accredited Associate of Applied Arts college degree program in Motion
Picture Production, which he later distilled into an online certificate program, (2015) DVD and Vimeo series. "Foolproof Film School. Dallas: Stevens Entertainment Group. ISBN 978-0-6924374-9-0, which teaches Stevens' unique practical perspective of the business side of making movies, based on his academic texts, (2014) Book: "Foolproof Filmmaking". Westport: Prospecta Press. ISBN 978-1-935212-27-0; (2016) Book: "Producing for Profit". New York and London" Focal Press/Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-138-12104-1; and (2017) Book "Screenwriting for Profit". New York and London" Focal Press/Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-138-95060-3- IMDb Mini Biography By: Andrew Stevens
- SpousesDiana Phillips Hoogland(2016 - April 9, 2018) (divorced)Robyn Suzanne Scott(1995 - 2010) (divorced, 3 children)Kate Jackson(August 23, 1978 - January 4, 1980) (divorced)
- Children
- ParentsHerman Stephens
- Son of Stella Stevens.
- Auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), which went to Mark Hamill.
- Received his Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles (AULA).
- His mother, Stella Stevens was just 16 years-old when she gave birth to him. His father, Herman Stephens was 18.
- In 1979, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the best male debut category (new star of the year) for his role of Billy Ray Pike in The Boys in Company C (1978).
- It's an unfortunate fact of life that some of the most interesting and
challenging roles are the most villainous. There's just so much more to
work with when the character is the heavy--the audience develops
really strong feelings about him right away.
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