Biography
Stephen C. "Steve" Miner is an American film and television director. Miner was born in Westport, Connecticut. Television programs Miner have directed include The Wonder Years, Jake 2.0, Felicity, Dawson's Creek (including the pilot and four of the other episodes of the first season), and Diagnosis: Murder. However, Miner first made his big splash as an associate-producer on the 1980 hit, Friday the 13th. He would go on to successfully direct the following sequels, Friday the 13th Part 2 and its...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Devil's Work
2017
An Interview with Director Steve Miner about the film Warlock.
Ding Dong, You're Dead! The Making of "House"
2017
Retrospective documentary taking a look back at the making of House, the 1985 horror film that became a nice little hit when it was originally release...
Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous
2008
Director
When fluffy, bubble gum movie star Megan Valentine suddenly finds herself broke and humiliated in the public eye, she wanders from the wreckage of a c...
Day of the Dead
2008
Director
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
Texas Rangers
2001
Director
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexi...
Lake Placid
1999
as Airplane Pilot
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix...
Lake Placid
1999
Director
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix...
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
as School Financial Advisor
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael ...
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
Director
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael ...
Big Bully
1996
Director
A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruined, only the bully wants to relive their painful pa...
My Father the Hero
1994
Director
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lo...
Forever Young
1992
Director
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that ...
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
1991
Director
A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-de...
Warlock
1989
Director, Producer
In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into th...
Soul Man
1986
Director
A white prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qual...
Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
1986
as Self
Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention.
House
1985
Director
Roger Cobb, a divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son, inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatura...
Friday the 13th Part III
1982
as Newscaster
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve friends. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one...
Friday the 13th Part III
1982
Director, Animation Director
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve friends. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one...
Friday the 13th Part 2
1981
Director, Producer
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that ...
Friday the 13th
1980
Unit Production Manager, Associate Producer
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Breaking Away
1979
as Student (uncredited)
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athlet...
Here Come the Tigers
1978
Producer, Editor, Second Unit Director
A cop and his partner manage a little league baseball team, trying to turn the group of misfits into a competitive team.
Manny's Orphans
1978
Producer, Editor, Story
Manny coaches soccer for the fashionable Creighton Hall school, but is relieved of duty because he is 'not a good match' for the school. He finds a jo...
The Case of the Smiling Stiffs
1973
Editor
Is Emma a voyeur vampire who can turn into a bat? Apparently, and she leaves many smiling faces on her victims after going down on them during a full ...
The Last House on the Left
1972
as Hippie Taunting Deputy (uncredited)
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some d...
The Last House on the Left
1972
Assistant Editor, Production Assistant
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some d...
The Exorcism at Lincoln High
N/A
Director
When a group of high school students put a curse on an unsuspecting misfit, they cause her to become possessed by a demon and must find a way to exorc...