Steve Carver was an American film director, producer, and photographer.
16 Facts About Steve Carver
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Steve Carver was originally interested in cartooning, commercial art and animation.
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Steve Carver was a cameraman 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.
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Steve Carver worked as an assistant director on Dalton Trumbo's sole effort as director, Johnny Got His Gun.
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Steve Carver spent his first year at New World cutting trailers.
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Steve Carver wrote a number of scripts for Corman, including one on Admiral Byrd that floundered when they could not secure rights from Byrd's estate.
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Steve Carver was working on a script about a black female private eye when Corman gave him the chance to direct with The Arena, a film about female gladiators shot in Italy.
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Corman was pleased with The Arena and gave Steve Carver another directing job, a gangster film starring Angie Dickinson, Big Bad Mama.
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Steve Carver was mentioned as a possible director for the third film in the "Billy Jack" series, Billy Jack Goes to Washington, but in the end Tom Laughlin decided to do it.
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Steve Carver warned me that part of the cast would follow him off of the movie.
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Steve Carver was going to make a film for Ray Stark with Susan Blakely, Freestyle, about a hotdog skier at the end of her career.
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Steve Carver did some uncredited work on a TV movie, Angel City.
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Steve Carver left the production, because the producers refused to fire actor Ralph Waite, who, according to Steve Carver, came to the set drunk.
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Steve Carver made two highly successful films with Chuck Norris, An Eye for an Eye and Lone Wolf McQuade.
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Steve Carver died from COVID-19 in Los Angeles on January 8,2021, at age 75, during the COVID-19 pandemic in California, though it was initially reported that he died from a heart attack.