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My Take
What strikes me about Nicholas Meyer is how he moves between forms without losing his voice. He broke through with the novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, then directed Time After Time and two Star Trek films, and that range alone makes him hard to pin down. But for me his quietest work hits hardest: The Day After, the 1983 television film about nuclear war, felt less like entertainment than a warning aimed straight at its audience. A University of Iowa graduate and Saturn Award honoree, he reads to me as a storyteller first and a director second, someone who treats genre as a vehicle for ideas rather than the point itself.
Overview
Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director and author known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature films, the 1983 television film The Day After, and the 1999 HBO original film Vendetta.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Nicholas Meyer
- Name (Japanese)
- ニコラス・メイヤー
- Reading
- にこらす・めいやー
- Born
- December 24, 1945 (age 80)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Rooster
- Origin
- New York City, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / screenwriter / film producer / writer / novelist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Iowa
Awards & achievements
- Saturn Awards
- 7th Saturn Awards
- 10th Saturn Awards
- The George Pal Memorial Award
- 2008 Time Machine Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://nmeyer.pxl.net
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.