American executive, film producer, director and actor, the only child of actress Stella Stevens and her former husband Noble Herman Stephens.
Prior to his producing career, Stevens had a bit role in Shampoo (1975), and went on to appear in cult thrillers such as Massacre at Central High (1976), Vigilante Force (1976) and Day of the Animals (1977), as well as the cult horror film The Fury (1978) starring Kirk Douglas. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in The Boys in Company C (1978), and later starred with Charles Bronson in two films, Death Hunt (1981) and 10 to Midnight (1983).
In early 1990, Stevens left the public eye to become an independent entrepreneur writing, producing, directing and financing films for his own companies. He was President/CEO of Franchise Pictures, which produced films for Warner Bros. from 1999 through 2005, including The Whole Nine Yards and its sequel, The Whole Ten Yards, as well as The In-Laws. Franchise and its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 19 August 2004, after losing a multimillion-dollar fraud case in Los Angeles, and is now defunct.
Prior to Franchise, Stevens was president of Sunset Films International and then an owner and president of Royal Oaks Entertainment. He currently operates Andrew Stevens Entertainment and Stevens Entertainment Group.
In 2017, he published a screenwriting manual, Screenwriting for Profit: Writing for the Global Marketplace. The book discusses how writers can use better understanding of the domestic and international film markets to assist their screenplays.
He dated Pattie Sullivan from 1976 to 1978. Stevens was married to actress Kate Jackson from 1978 to 1982. He has three children by his second marriage to Robyn Suzanne Scott, which started in 1995 and ended in divorce in 2010. Stevens married Diana Phillips Hoogland in 2016; they divorced in 2018.
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