Burr Steers

Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Burr Gore Steers<ref name="NYTimes-15-sep-2002"/> (born October 8, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. His films include Igby Goes Down (2002) and 17 Again (2009). He is a nephew of writer Gore Vidal.

Early life and education

Steers was born in Washington, D.C.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=NYT>Template:Cite news</ref> His father, Newton Ivan Steers, Jr. (1917–1993), was a businessman and politician who briefly served as a Republican congressman from Maryland. Through his mother, Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937),<ref>The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963 By Carl Sferrazza Anthony, page 149</ref> he is a grandson of stockbroker and lawyer Hugh D. Auchincloss,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a cousin of Louis Auchincloss. Nina is also the stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and younger half-sister of the writer Gore Vidal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Steers is a relative of vice president Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States.<ref name="NYTimes-15-sep-2002"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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. Steers's godfather was former Virginia Senator John Warner.

His brother Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1963–1995) was an American figurative painter whose later works often focused on AIDS as a theme. He has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage to editor Michael Whitney Straight.<ref name="Straight">*Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives (London: HarperCollins, 1998; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pg., 130.</ref>

Steers grew up living in Bethesda, Maryland and Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School. Steers was expelled from both the Hotchkiss School and Culver Military Academy. He eventually earned his GED and attended New York University.<ref name="NYTimes-15-sep-2002">"Film; A Family's Legacy: Pain and Humor (and a Movie)", New York Times, September 15, 2002.</ref>

Career

Steers has had minor roles in a few of Quentin Tarantino's films, playing Roger (or "Flock of Seagulls") in Pulp Fiction and providing one of the radio voices in Reservoir Dogs.<ref name="Eisenberg"/> He also has appeared in The Last Days of Disco,<ref name="Eisenberg"/> Fix<ref name="fix"/> and Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid.<ref name="Pitts"/>

He wrote and directed Igby Goes Down in 2002, a coming-of-age film that starred Kieran Culkin and Susan Sarandon.<ref name=NYT/> Steers also was the screenwriter of the film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which starred Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. He has directed episodes of the television series Weeds, The L Word, Big Love, and The New Normal.<ref name="Eisenberg"/> Steers also directed the 2009 teen comedy film, 17 Again starring Zac Efron.<ref name="Radish"/>

In 2010 Steers directed the drama Charlie St. Cloud, also starring Efron. Also in 2010, there was media coverage for 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 Steers after having the adaptation written by William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan.<ref name="bettinger">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Steers directed the 2016 film adaptation of the parody novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.<ref name="cook">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

Year	Title	Writer	Director	Producer	Actor	Notes
1989	Intruder<ref name="Muir">Template:Cite book</ref>				Template:Yes	Role: Bub
	Billy the Kid<ref name="Pitts">Template:Cite book</ref>				Template:Yes	TV Movie Billy Henchman
1990	The New Adam-12<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || || || ||Template:Yes||
	Room for Romance				Template:Yes
1992	Reservoir Dogs<ref name="Eisenberg"/>				Template:Yes	Role: Background Radio Play (Voice Only)
1993	Silk Stalkings<ref name="silk">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || || || ||Template:Yes|| TV Series: 1 Episode Role: Jason Lyons
	Naked in New York<ref name="WaPo">Template:Cite news</ref>				Template:Yes	Role: Shipley
1994	Pulp Fiction<ref name="Eisenberg"/>				Template:Yes	Role: Roger
1998	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> || || || ||Template:Yes|| Role: Mitch
	The Last Days of Disco<ref name="Eisenberg"/>				Template:Yes	Role: Van
2002	Igby Goes Down<ref name=NYT/>	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2003	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> ||Template:Yes|| || || ||
2005	The L Word<ref name="Bolonik">Template:Cite book</ref>		Template:Yes			TV Series: 1 Episode
	Weeds<ref name="Eisenberg">Template:Cite news</ref>		Template:Yes			TV Series: 1 Episode
2007	Big Love<ref name="Eisenberg"/>		Template:Yes			TV Series: 1 Episode
2009	17 Again<ref name="Radish">Template:Cite news</ref>		Template:Yes
2010	Charlie St. Cloud<ref name="Radish"/>		Template:Yes
2012	The New Normal<ref name="Eisenberg"/>		Template:Yes			TV Series: 1 Episode
2013	Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia<ref name="Holden">Template:Cite news</ref>			Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Documentary Role: Self
2016	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<ref name="cook"/>	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2018	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>|| || Template:Yes || || ||
2021	Chapelwaite		Template:Yes	Template:Yes		TV Series: 2 Episodes

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