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Stephen Herek

Stephen Herek

Highest Rated: 83% Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Lowest Rated: 9% Man of the House (2005)

Birthday: Nov 10, 1958

Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas, USA

A proficient director of light Hollywood entertainments aimed primarily at young male audiences, Herek began as a production assistant for Roger Corman's New World Pictures soon after graduating college. He worked for a time in the editing department and earned screen credit as assistant editor of "Androids" (1982). Herek made his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with an amusing and smartly crafted, if rather modest, low-budget "Gremlins" knockoff, "Critters" (1986). Herek fared better directing "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989), a riotous sleeper that showcased Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two lovably brain-dead teens who travel through time to pass a major history test.

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101 DALMATIANS, (aka ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS), Glenn Close, director Stephen Herek on the set, 1996 THE CHAPERONE, from left: director Stephen Herek, Paul Levesque, on set, 2011. ©Samuel Goldwyn Films MAN OF THE HOUSE, director Stephen Herek on set, 2005, (c) Columbia MAN OF THE HOUSE, Tommy Lee Jones, director Stephen Herek on set, 2005, (c) Columbia
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
41% 67% Dog Gone Director - 2023
56% 71% Afterlife of the Party Director - 2021
No Score Yet 41% Same Time, Next Christmas Director - 2019
57% 71% Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love Director - 2016
65% 67% The Great Gilly Hopkins Director - 2016
78% 68% Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors Director - 2015
No Score Yet 75% Jinxed Director - 2013
29% 43% The Chaperone Director - 2011
No Score Yet 62% The Cutting Edge: Fire & Ice Director - 2010
17% 18% Into the Blue 2: The Reef Director - 2009
No Score Yet 38% Dead Like Me: Life After Death Director - 2009
No Score Yet 67% Picture This Director - 2008
9% 46% Man of the House Director $19.1M 2005
28% 44% Life or Something Like It Director $14.4M 2002
53% 59% Rock Star Director $17.0M 2001
12% 25% Holy Man Director,
Producer 		$12.1M 1998
39% 40% 101 Dalmatians Director $136.2M 1996
75% 84% Mr. Holland's Opus Director $82.6M 1995
30% 62% The Three Musketeers Director $53.7M 1993
23% 65% The Mighty Ducks Director $50.7M 1992
35% 57% Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead Director $23.0M 1991
83% 75% Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Director $39.1M 1989
No Score Yet 80% The Gifted One Director - 1989
50% 45% Critters Director,
Screenwriter 		$11.3M 1986

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 70% MacGyver Director 2016-2019
27% 63% Rush Hour Director 2016
No Score Yet 69% Hawaii Five-0 Director 2015-2016
8% 67% Betrayal Director 2014