# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/savage-steve-holland
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:03:27.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/savage-steve-holland"
name: "Savage Steve Holland"
slug: "savage-steve-holland"
description: "Savage Steve Holland is an American film and television director, writer, producer, animator and voice actor most known for directing Better Off Dead (1985) and One Crazy Summer (1986), starring John Cusack. He also directed the film How I Got into College (1989), and animated the \"Whammy\" on the game show Press Your Luck. He later went on to create and produce Eek! the Cat and The Terrible Thunderlizards for Fox Kids."
tagline: "American writer and filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SavageSteve.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.44
  momentum:             3.483852010612646
  historical:           6.918692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/savagesteveholland/"
    handle:    "savagesteveholland"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0390822/"
    handle:    "nm0390822"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%B4%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%88_%DB%81%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88"
    title: "وحشی اسٹیو ہالینڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%DA%A4_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "سايڤاج ستيڤ هولاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Steve_Holland"
    title: "Savage Steve Holland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Steve_Holland"
    title: "Savage Steve Holland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Steve_Holland"
    title: "Savage Steve Holland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Steve_Holland"
    title: "Savage Steve Holland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Steve_Holland"
    title: "Savage Steve Holland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3474451"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87565"
    title: "Savage Steve Holland"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump