25 Facts About Sam Irvin

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

Sam Irvin has won two Rondo Awards for Best Article of the Year and Best Interview of the Year.

Between projects, Sam Irvin taught graduate courses on directing at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

In 1978, Sam Irvin graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts.

Sam Irvin was chairman of the University of South Carolina Film Committee that ran a year-round cinema program at the campus theater.

Sam Irvin worked on the feature as a production assistant, an extra, and wrote a journal on the making of the movie that was published in Cinefantastique magazine, Vol.

In 2013, Sam 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 UK and Ireland and by Carlotta Films in France.

Sam Irvin worked with De Palma on several projects in development, including Blow Out.

Sam Irvin wrote a comprehensive, 13,000-word chronicle on the making of Dressed to Kill for Boobs and Blood magazine, issue number 4, published in December 2020.

Sam Irvin gave up his position as De Palma's assistant to produce The First Time, a coming-of-age comedy co-written by William Finley, for which De Palma served as a credited Creative Consultant.

Sam Irvin helped spearhead the record-breaking year-long run of Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva in New York City.

From his own original screenplay, Sam Irvin directed the Showtime Original Movie Kiss of a Stranger starring Mariel Hemingway, Dyan Cannon, Corbin Bernsen and David Carradine.

Sam Irvin directed the cult sci-fi westerns Oblivion and its sequel Backlash: Oblivion 2 starring Julie Newmar, George Takei, Isaac Hayes, Meg Foster and Maxwell Caulfield.

Sam Irvin directed the Disney Channel time-travel pirate fantasy Magic Island starring Zachery Ty Bryan and French Stewart.

For television, Sam Irvin directed several episodes of Comedy Central's Strip Mall starring Julie Brown, Cindy Williams, Jim O'Heir, Carolyn Hennesy, Maxwell Caulfield, and Stella Stevens.

Sam Irvin directed all the episodes of the hit television series Dante's Cove starring Tracy Scoggins, Charlie David, Jenny Shimizu, Thea Gill, Stephen Amell, Booboo Stewart, and Reichen Lehmkuhl.

Additionally, Sam Irvin wrote the lyrics and co-composed the music for the series' theme song "From Here on OUT".

Sam Irvin was the first season director and co-producer of the television series My Sister Is So Gay starring Terry Ray, Wendy Michaels, Tilky Jones, Debra Wilson, and Loni Anderson.

Also for television, Sam Irvin directed the opening of The 100th Anniversary of the World Series for the Fox Network.

Sam Irvin directed the surrealistic opening battle between ninja warriors and football players.

Also in Romania, Sam Irvin directed Am sa ma intorc barbat, a rock opera performed by the Romanian rock group Vama Veche broadcast live on television from the National Theater in Bucharest.

In connection with his research on the life of Thompson, Sam Irvin served as a historical consultant on the Tony Award-winning Broadway event Liza's at the Palace.

Sam 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 Sam Irvin's 50,000-word chronicle on the movie which won the 2017 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Article of the Year.

Sam Irvin arranged for a special Foreword by best-selling author Anne Rice and an essay by Mark Gatiss, the co-creator of Sherlock.

Between projects, Sam 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.