Steve Carver
| Steve Carver | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 5, 1945 Brooklyn, New York |
| Occupation | Film director, producer |
Steve Carver (born April 5, 1945) is an American film director and producer from Brooklyn, New York.
Carver attended Manhattan's High School of Music and Art and received his BA from Cornell University and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He was originally interested in cartooning, commercial art and animation. He was camera man for the Wide World of Sports for the St Louis Cardinals and made 30 documentaries in two years while teaching in St Louis area colleges.
In 1970, a documentary he shot in grad school got him admitted to the American Film Institute, then in its second year of taking in fellows in Hollywood. While at the AFI he studied under such filmmakers as George Stevens, George Seaton, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlton Heston and Gregory Peck. He worked as an assistant director on Dalton Trumbo's sole effort as director, Johnny Got His Gun (1971).
Carver's final AFI project was a short film based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart" starring Alex Cord and Sam Jaffe. The Los Angeles Times described it as "an effective mood piece, a beautiful work in ominous life and shadow".
"I loved AFI," said Carver. "It was an opportunity to use some very talented people."
The Tell Tale Heart was widely screened and attracted the attention of Roger Corman who had made a number of adaptations of Poe's works. Corman hired Carver to work at New World Pictures.
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