Burr Steers

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title: "Burr Steers" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1965-births", "living-people", "st.-albans-school-(washington,-d.c.)-alumni", "hotchkiss-school-alumni", "auchincloss-family", "culver-academies-alumni", "male-actors-from-washington,-d.c.", "new-york-university-alumni", "american-male-screenwriters", "english-language-film-directors", "people-from-bethesda,-maryland", "film-directors-from-maryland", "screenwriters-from-connecticut", "screenwriters-from-maryland", "screenwriters-from-washington,-d.c.", "people-from-georgetown-(washington,-d.c.)"] description: "American actor, writer, film director" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_Steers" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American actor, writer, film director ::

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Field	Value
name	Burr Steers
image	Burr_Steers_(cropped).jpg
caption	Steers at ComicCon 2015
birth_name	Burr Gore Steers
birth_date
birth_place	Washington, D.C., US
parents	Newton Steers
Nina Gore Auchincloss
education	St. Albans School
Hotchkiss School
Culver Military Academy
alma_mater	New York University
occupation	Film director, screenwriter, actor
relatives	Hugh Auchincloss Steers (brother)
Gore Vidal (half-uncle)
Hugh D. Auchincloss (grandfather)
Nina S. Gore (grandmother)
Thomas Gore (great-grandfather)
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|name = Burr Steers |image = Burr_Steers_(cropped).jpg |caption = Steers at ComicCon 2015 |birth_name = Burr Gore Steers |birth_date = |birth_place = Washington, D.C., US |parents = Newton Steers Nina Gore Auchincloss |education = St. Albans School Hotchkiss School Culver Military Academy |alma_mater = New York University |occupation = Film director, screenwriter, actor |relatives = Hugh Auchincloss Steers (brother) Gore Vidal (half-uncle) Hugh D. Auchincloss (grandfather) Nina S. Gore (grandmother) Thomas Gore (great-grandfather) Burr Gore Steers (born October 8, 1965) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. His films include Igby Goes Down (2002) and 17 Again (2009). He is a nephew of writer Gore Vidal.

Early life and education

Steers was born in Washington, D.C. His father, Newton Ivan Steers, Jr. (1917–1993), was a businessman and politician who briefly served as a Republican congressman from Maryland. Through his mother, Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937), he is a grandson of stockbroker and lawyer Hugh D. Auchincloss, a cousin of Louis Auchincloss. Nina is also the stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and younger half-sister of the writer Gore Vidal. Steers is a relative of vice president Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States. Steers's great-grandfather Thomas Gore served as Oklahoma's first Democratic senator, from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931 until 1937, while his great-great-grandfather Oliver Burr Jennings was a founder of Standard Oil. Steers's godfather was former Virginia Senator John Warner.

His brother Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1963–1995) was an American figurative painter whose later works often focused on AIDS as a theme. He has another brother, Ivan Steers, and five stepsiblings from his mother's second marriage to editor Michael Whitney Straight.

Steers grew up living in Bethesda, Maryland and Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School. Steers was expelled from both the Hotchkiss School and Culver Military Academy. He eventually earned his GED and attended New York University.

Career

Steers has had minor roles in a few of Quentin Tarantino's films, playing Roger (or "Flock of Seagulls") in Pulp Fiction and providing one of the radio voices in Reservoir Dogs. He also has appeared in The Last Days of Disco, Fix and Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid.

He wrote and directed Igby Goes Down in 2002, a coming-of-age film that starred Kieran Culkin and Susan Sarandon. Steers also was the screenwriter of the film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which starred Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. He has directed episodes of the television series Weeds, The L Word, Big Love, and The New Normal. Steers also directed the 2009 teen comedy film, 17 Again starring Zac Efron.

In 2010 Steers directed the drama Charlie St. Cloud, also starring Efron. Also in 2010, there was media coverage for Steers having been hired to direct an epic film about the early life of Julius Caesar to be based on the novels by Conn Iggulden as adapted from the first two novels of Iggulden's series, The Gates of Rome and The Death of Kings, and covering the years from 92 BC to 71 BC. Exclusive Media Group hired Steers after having the adaptation written by William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan. Steers directed the 2016 film adaptation of the parody novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Filmography

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Year	Title	Writer	Director	Producer	Actor	Notes
1989	Intruder					Role: Bub
Billy the Kid					TV Movie
Billy Henchman
1990	The New Adam-12
Room for Romance
1992	Reservoir Dogs					Role: Background Radio Play (Voice Only)
1993	title=Silk Stalkings (TV Series)	url=http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film258467.html	website=filmaffinity.com	publisher=Film Affinity USA	access-date=3 March 2016}}
Role: Jason Lyons
title=Ascending Steers	url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/10/1052280479601.html	access-date=3 March 2016	newspaper=Washington Post	date=May 11, 2003}}
1994	Pulp Fiction					Role: Roger
1998	last1=New York Times Staff	title=Fix (1997)	url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/160146/Fix/details	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307181704/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/160146/Fix/details	url-status=dead	archive-date=7 March 2016
The Last Days of Disco					Role: Van
2002	Igby Goes Down
2003	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2005	last1=Bolonik	first1=Kera	title=The L word : welcome to our planet ; [the official companion book to the Hit Showtime series	date=2005	publisher=Simon & Schuster	location=New York [u.a.]
Weeds					TV Series: 1 Episode
2007	Big Love					TV Series: 1 Episode
2009	17 Again
2010	Charlie St. Cloud
2012	The New Normal					TV Series: 1 Episode
2013	last1=Holden	first1=Stephen	title=An Intellectual and His Lofty Contempt	url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/movies/gore-vidal-united-states-of-amnesia-a-documentary.html	access-date=3 March 2016	work=The New York Times
Role: Self
2016	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2018	title=Burr Steers Director	url=http://www.dga.org/The-Guild/Members/Profile.aspx?mid=RizCxSnA2jQ%3D	website=www.dga.org	publisher=Directors Guild of America	access-date=30 January 2020}}
2021	Chapelwaite					TV Series: 2 Episodes
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References

References

1. Baskin, Ellen. (August 28, 2002). "A Family Resemblance; The creator of 'Igby Goes Down' drew on the genteel poverty of his past".
2. Holden, Stephen. (September 13, 2002). "FILM REVIEW; On the Outs With Almost Everything". The New York Times.
3. The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963 By Carl Sferrazza Anthony, page 149
4. "Steers, Newton Ivan, Jr. (1917-1993)". The Political Graveyard.
5. "First Lady Biography: Jackie Kennedy". First Ladies' Biographical Information.
6. (May 11, 2003). "Ascending Steers". The Age.
7. *Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, ''The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives'' (London: HarperCollins, 1998; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pg., 130.
8. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/arts/film-a-family-s-legacy-pain-and-humor-and-a-movie.html?pagewanted=all Film; A Family's Legacy: Pain and Humor (and a Movie)]", ''New York Times'', September 15, 2002.
9. Bettinger, Brendan. (June 26, 2013). "17 AGAIN Director Burr Steers Will Depict a Teenage Julius Caesar in EMPEROR: YOUNG CAESAR". Collider.
10. Fleming, Mike Jr.. (May 26, 2010). "Burr Steers To Direct Julius Caesar Film Based On Conn Iggulden Novels". Deadline Hollywood.
11. Hazelton, John. (May 27, 2010). "Steers signs to direct Young Ceasar [sic]". [[Screen Daily]].
12. Cook, Tommy. (Feb 3, 2016). "Burr Steers on the Elaborate "Oner" He Cut from 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'". Collider.
13. Whittaker, Richard. (Feb 4, 2016). "Adapting Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". Austin Chronicle.
14. (2012). "Horror Films of the 1980s". McFarland & Company, Inc..
15. (2013). "Western movies : a guide to 5,105 feature films". McFarland & Co..
16. "New Adam-12". TV Guide.
17. "Silk Stalkings (TV Series)". Film Affinity USA.
18. (May 11, 2003). "Ascending Steers". Washington Post.
19. (2016). "Fix (1997)". [[The New York Times]].
20. (2015). "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)". [[The New York Times]].
21. (2005). ["The L word : welcome to our planet ; the official companion book to the Hit Showtime series". Simon & Schuster.
22. (January 26, 2016). "The Pulp Fiction Scene That Burr Steers Kept Screwing Up, And Why". Cinema Blend.
23. (July 30, 2010). "Director Burr Steers Exclusive Interview CHARLIE ST. CLOUD; Plus Updates on THIS MEANS WAR and EMPEROR". Collider.
24. (May 22, 2014). "An Intellectual and His Lofty Contempt". The New York Times.
25. "Burr Steers Director". [[Directors Guild of America]].

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