Name Jeb Stuart | Role Film director | |
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Spouse Anne Bryant Stuart (m. ?–2001) Children Alexandra "Lexie" Stuart, Baker Stuart Books Switchback, Die Hard: Screenplay Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay Movies Die Hard, Switchback, The Fugitive, Blood Done Sign My Name, Fire Down Below Similar People Steven E de Souza, Roderick Thorp, Lawrence Gordon, John McTiernan, David Twohy | ||
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Jeb Stuart (born 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for writing blockbuster action films like Die Hard, Lock Up, and The Fugitive.
Career
Stuart's first screenplay was that of the 1988 action film Die Hard, which he co-wrote with Steven E. de Souza. Adapted from the Roderick Thorp novel Nothing Lasts Forever, the film was a massive finanical and critical success, spawning a four sequels and being considered one of the greatest and most influential action films of all time. He helped pen the science-fiction horror movie Leviathan and the Sylvester Stallone prison thriller Lock Up.
Stuart was heavily involved in the writing of The Fugitive (1993), reworking David Twohy's original draft while on set and working with director Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. He and an early draft of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, entitled Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from Mars, in 1995. In 1997, he made his directorial debut with Switchback, a thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover. The film's negative critical reception led to Stuart semi-retiring from filmmaking for over a decade, before returning by writing, producing, and directing Blood Done Sign My Name, adapted from the autobiography of author and historian Timothy Tyson.