Samantha Eggar Filmography

Tom Stern is an American actor, director, writer, and producer from New York City. Stern attended film school at New York University from 1983–87, where he met Alex Winter. The two collaborated on a number of 16 mm short films including Squeal of Death, which was noticed by an executive... at Columbia Pictures in 1986. The film attempted to bring the Tex Avery cartoon aesthetic to live action, several years before The Mask did it. Weird Howie was partially based on Bernhard Goetz, but was performed by Winter. Squeal of Death was poorly scheduled at the NYU Film festival and passed largely un-noticed by the world at large. Stern and Winter received one letter from an executive at Columbia Studios, who had seen Squeal of Death. In 1987 Stern graduated from NYU. The same year, he and Winter drove from New York to Hollywood and settled in Venice Beach. Nothing came of the meeting at Columbia, but Stern and Winter also sent a copy of Squeal of Death to Sam Raimi, who responded enthusiastically. He and his partner Rob Tapert optioned an anthology comedy feature film script from Stern and Winter and attempted to raise funds to produce it.
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