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Steven-Charles Jaffe (born 1951) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter known for his work on such films as Motel Hell (1980), Near Dark (1987), Strange Days (1995), and the Best Picture-nominated romantic fantasy film Ghost.
- Steven C. Jaffe
- Herb Jaffe
- 1975–present
Steven-Charles Jaffe is known as an Producer, Second Unit Director, Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Associate Producer, Co-Producer, Screenplay, and Writer. Some of his work includes Ghost, Strange Days, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, K-19: The Widowmaker, Near Dark, The Fly II, Time After Time, and Demon Seed.
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Steven-Charles Jaffe (born 14 March 1952; age 72) produced Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country with Ralph Winter. He was also the film's Second Unit Director. He is the son of fellow film producer Herb Jaffe, with whom he frequently worked.
In his role as second unit director, Jaffe directed much of the assassination event in zero gravity aboard the Kronos One. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Special Edition) DVD-special feature, "text commentary")
Jaffe has worked with Star Trek VI director and co-writer Nicholas Meyer on several other projects directed by Meyers. Jaffe was an associate producer and second unit director on Meyers' 1979 film Time After Time, which starred Malcolm McDowell and Star Trek VI performer David Warner. (His father, Herb, was the producer of this film.) Next, Jaffe was the second unit director on the controversial 1983 made-for-TV movie The Day After, which featured Bibi Besch and cinematography by Gayne Rescher. Afterwards, Jaffe was the producer and second unit director of Meyers' 1991 film, Company Business, starring Kurtwood Smith and Terry O'Quinn.
Jaffe also worked on several films directed by Kathryn Bigelow, beginning with Near Dark (1987, featuring Jenette Goldstein and Roger Aaron Brown). This was followed by Strange Days (1995), which he produced with James Cameron. He also directed that film's second unit photography. His subsequent collaborations with Bigelow were as an executive producer on The Weight of Water (2000) and as a co-producer the Paramount Pictures' ''K-19: The Widowmaker (2002).
•"The Making Of The Undiscovered Country", Mark A. Altman, Cinefantastique, Vol 22 #5, pp. 24-25, 27-28, 30, 32, 35-36, 38, 43-44, 46, 48, 51-52, 54
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Steven-Charles Jaffe was born in 1951. He is a producer and assistant director, known for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Strange Days (1995) and Ghost (1990).
Steven-Charles Jaffe is the director of the acclaimed documentary GAHAN WILSON: BORN DEAD, STILL WEIRD (2013), but he has also been producing important and commercially successful films since the '70s, including THE WIND AND THE LION (1975), DEMON SEED (1978), WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN (1978), THE FLY II (1989) and GHOST (1990).
Nov 25, 2013 · Director Steven-Charles Jaffe deftly captures the creative method to the quirky cartoonist's comic madness in the first-rate documentary 'Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird.'.
Jul 29, 2011 · For Jaffe - a longtime movie producer with films such as Ghost, Star Trek VI, and Time After Time to his credit - the victory was a deeply gratifying milestone on a journey that, in some ways ...
