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Steven E. de Souza
Highest Rated: 94% Die Hard (1988)
Lowest Rated: 10% Knock Off (1998)
Birthday: Nov 17, 1947
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
A prolific author of action-adventure features, de Souza wrote or co-wrote some of the biggest box office hits of the 1980s, specializing in tongue-in-cheek actioners for such stars as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. His fast paced scripts, full of succinct, often memorable dialogue alternating with bursts of weapon fire, car crashes or exploding buildings, all deftly crafted with style and humor, have made him a steady force in the genre for more than a decade.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Check In | Quentin Tarantino (Voice) | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Blast | Screenwriter | - | 2004 |
| 24% | 44% | Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | Writer | $65.7M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Possessed |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2000 |
| 10% | 26% | Knock Off | Writer | $10.1M | 1998 |
| 22% | 30% | Judge Dredd | Screenwriter | $34.7M | 1995 |
| 11% | 35% | Beverly Hills Cop III | Screenwriter | $41.5M | 1994 |
| 11% | 20% | Street Fighter |
Director, Screenwriter |
$33.2M | 1994 |
| 23% | 25% | The Flintstones | Screenwriter | $130.5M | 1994 |
| 31% | 56% | Hudson Hawk | Screenwriter | $16.4M | 1991 |
| 69% | 70% | Die Hard 2 | Screenwriter | $115.3M | 1990 |
| 38% | 42% | Bad Dreams | Screenwriter | $8.9M | 1988 |
| 94% | 94% | Die Hard | Screenwriter | $82.3M | 1988 |
| 67% | 61% | The Running Man | Screenwriter | $38.0M | 1987 |
| 67% | 68% | Commando |
Writer, Writer |
$34.9M | 1985 |
| 92% | 69% | 48 HRS. | Screenwriter | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arnold's Wrecking Co. |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1973 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82% | 97% | Tales From the Crypt | Director | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Knight Rider | Writer | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Writer | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bionic Woman | Writer | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Writer | 1977 |