Sam Irvin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sam Irvin
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jun 14, 1956(1956-06-14)
Age	68
Birthplace	Asheville
Country	United States
Birth City	North Carolina
Horoscope	Gemini

Sam Irvin Biography

Sam Irvin is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on June 14, 1956 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. Sam Irvin (born June 14 1956) is an American director of television and film screenwriter, producer writer, and film instructor.

It was 1978 when Irvin was a graduate of his school, the University of South Carolina with the degree of Bachelor in Arts with a major in Media Arts. While at the school and film school, he served as the cinema critic at The Gamecock, the campus newspaper. He also won an award for student films for his short film thesis. He was also the chairman of the University of South Carolina Film Committee which operated a year-round film program on campus theatre.

Irvin’s first directorial effort, which he also wrote and produced, was the 1985 dark comedy short Double Negative, which starred Bill Randolph, Justin Henry, Wayne Knight, Dori Legg, and William Finley. It premiered as an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently played theatrically in New York and Los Angeles as a warm-up for various feature films. It was nominated for a Gold Hugo Award for Best Short Film at the 1985 Chicago International Film Festival. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that it was “an exceptionally promising first effort.” Double Negative is included as an extra bonus feature on the 2013 Blu-ray DVD release of Brian DePalma’s The Fury distributed by Arrow Films in the U.K. and Ireland and by Carlotta Films in France.

Also for television, Irvin directed the opening of The 100th Anniversary of the World Series (October 18, 2003) for the Fox Network (a “through the ages” montage featuring the music of and starring Sheila E).

After graduation in the University of South Carolina in May 1978, Irvin worked as the Assistant Producer and Production Manager for Brian De Palma’s Home Movies. In the following years, Irvin worked as De Palma’s assistant on Dressed to Kill starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon.

Sam Irvin Net Worth

Sam Irvin is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sam Irvin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

When a teen, Irvin was the editor and publisher of two fanzine issues, Pit (69-70) and four issues a year of Bizarre (1972-1975) Bizarre, an online fanzine that focused on horror, fantasy and science fiction movies, where he was twice to England for in-person interviews with some of the most famous actors, such as Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Jane Seymour, Joan Collins, Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, Sir James Carreras, Michael Carreras etc.

In the summer of 1977 Irvin was a part-time employee at the Chicago filming location to shoot Brian de Palma’s The Fury. He was involved in the film as an assistant in production and as acting as an additional, and wrote a journal about the film’s making which appeared in Cinefantastique magazine Volume. 7, No. 2, 1978. Irvin also held an exclusive interview with Amy Irving in which, for the first time in her life she talked about the relationship she had to Steven Spielberg; it was published in Cinefantastique Vol. 6 No. 4 / Vol. 7, No. 1, 1978.

During the 1980s, Irvin served as Vice President of Marketing for three film distributors: United Artists Classics, Spectrafilm, and Vestron. During this period, Irvin won The Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards for designing the movie posters for François Truffaut’s Confidentially Yours and Paul Verhoeven’s The Fourth Man. He also helped spearhead the record-breaking year- long run of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva in New York City.

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Between projects, Irvin has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts where he taught graduate courses on directing. Among his former students is Ryan Coogler, acclaimed writer-director of Fruitvale Station, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Un Certain Regard award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Coogler has since directed the acclaimed hit Creed starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone; and the Marvel superhero movie Black Panther.

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Sam Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sam Irvin celebrates birthday on June 14 of every year.

In 2013, Irvin was extensively interviewed on camera by filmmaker Robert Fischer about his experiences on the set of The Fury for The Fury: A Location Journal, a 50-minute bonus feature that is included on the 2013 Blu-ray DVD release of The Fury distributed by Arrow Films in the U.K. and Ireland and by Carlotta Films in France. In its October 26, 2013 issue, Telegraph Magazine (the weekly supplement to London’s popular daily newspaper The Telegraph) ran a full-page story and photo of Irvin reminiscing about his time on the set of The Fury.

What was Sam Ervin role in Watergate?

In 1954, then-Vice President Richard Nixon appointed Ervin to a committee formed to investigate whether McCarthy should be censured by the Senate. The Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices, which investigated Watergate, was popularly known as the “Ervin Committee”.

Was Sam Ervin a Democrat or Republican?

Democratic Party

Who ran the Watergate investigation?

The dogged reporting of two Washington Post journalists, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, raised questions and suggested connections between Nixon’s reelection campaign and the men awaiting trial in federal district court.

Who presided over Watergate hearings?

In televised hearings, the Watergate committee, chaired by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin, grilled key administration figures. The committee soon discovered that Nixon had secretly recorded his Oval Office conversations, and the Supreme Court ordered the president to give these tapes to a special prosecutor.

Did Richard Nixon get a presidential funeral?

April 27, 1994