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- Marvelously quirky and creative writer, director, producer and animator Savage Steve Holland was born in 1960. Holland earned the childhood nickname Savage after he kicked a kid in the teeth during a soccer game. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Holland's student project "Going Nowhere Fast" was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. Steve began his career animating the "Whammy" on the game show "Press Your Luck." He made his theatrical film debut as both writer and director with the wonderfully offbeat and uproarious cult favorite comedy "Better Off Dead." Holland followed this movie with the equally amusing "One Crazy Summer" and "How I Got Into College." Alas, both pictures flopped at the box office and received largely negative reviews from critics. Luckily, Steve has achieved greater success in the field of television. He created and produced the cartoon program "Eek! the Cat" for Fox Kids. Moreover, Holland has worked on many shows for both Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. Steve has directed episodes of the TV series "Out of Jimmy's Head," "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide," "Unfabulous," "Zoey 101," "Phil of the Future," "Lizzie McGuire," "Even Stevens," "V.I.P.," "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show," "Shasta McNasty," "Encyclopedia Brown," and "The New Adventures of Beans Baxter." In addition, Holland produced several episodes of "The Nick Cannon Show" and directed the made-for-TV family features "Shredderman Rules," "Stuck in the Suburbs," and "Safety Patrol." Steve manages his own studio called Savage Studios Ltd. After a regrettably long absence from the big screen, Savage Steve Holland has made a welcome comeback with "Ratko: The Dictator's Son" and "Legally Blondes."- IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders
- Frequently casts Curtis Armstrong
- Besides casting Curtis Armstrong, Holland does have a stock company whom he collaborates with - usually casts Elizabeth Daily, Bobcat Goldthwait in some of his non-live action series (Daily and Goldthwait have done voice-over acting on Holland's animated series Eek! The Cat.
- His two most famous movies starred John Cusack... They are Better Off Dead (1985) and One Crazy Summer (1986). Both combine animation (Cusack plays a cartoonist in each) into the story, and have become cult films.
- Holland studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. His student project "Going Nowhere Fast" was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.
- Along with Bill Kopp, Holland created and a produced the cartoon program Eek! The Cat (1992) for the Fox Kids Network. The original idea for the show came from Holland's experience as a cat owner. One of his cats was named Eek.
- Holland earned the childhood nickname Savage after he kicked a kid in the teeth during a soccer game.
- Junior High: Western Junior High School, Greenwich, CT, 1971-74
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