Savage Steve Holland

Savage Steve Holland is one of those filmmakers whose sensibility I find irresistibly original. Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer, both with John Cusack, fused teen comedy with surreal, animated weirdness in a way no one else quite matched in the mid-80s. The fact that he also animated the Whammy on Press Your Luck tells you his imagination never stayed in one lane. CalArts trained, he treated live-action like a cartoon and got away with it. I respect creators who refuse to sand off their strangeness, and his cult following is well earned. His voice still feels singular decades later.

Name (English)

Savage Steve Holland

Name (Japanese)

サヴェージ・スティーブ・ホーランド

Reading

さゔぇーじ・すてぃーぶ・ほーらんど

Born

January 1, 1960 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

Origin

United States

Occupation

film director / television producer / animator / voice actor / casting director

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage%20Steve%20Holland
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3474451

Tags

• film director
• television producer
• animator

Last updated

2026-06-21

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