12 Facts About Burr Steers

Burr Gore Steers was born on October 8,1965 and is an American actor, screenwriter, and director.

Steers's great-grandfather Thomas Gore served as Oklahoma's first Democratic senator, from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931 until 1937, while his great-great-grandfather Oliver Burr Jennings was a founder of Standard Oil.

Burr Steers's brother Hugh Auchincloss Steers was an American figurative painter whose later works often focused on AIDS as a theme.

Burr Steers has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage to editor Michael Whitney Straight.

Burr Steers was expelled from both the Hotchkiss School and Culver Military Academy.

Burr Steers eventually earned his GED and attended New York University.

Burr Steers has had minor roles in a few of Quentin Tarantino's films, playing Roger in Pulp Fiction and providing one of the radio voices in Reservoir Dogs.

Burr Steers has appeared in The Last Days of Disco, Fix and Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid.

Burr Steers wrote and directed Igby Goes Down in 2002, a coming-of-age film that starred Kieran Culkin and Susan Sarandon.

Also in 2010, there was media coverage for Burr Steers having been hired to direct an epic film about the early life of Julius Caesar to be based on the novels by Conn Iggulden as adapted from the first two novels of Iggulden's series, The Gates of Rome and The Death of Kings, and covering the years from 92 BC to 71 BC.

Exclusive Media Group hired Burr Steers after having the adaptation written by William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan.

Burr Steers directed the 2016 film adaptation of the parody novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.