Dave Payne

Dave Payne (* in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American screenwriter , director and actor.

Life

He studied at the University of Iowa in the well-known Iowa Writers' Workshop before settling in Los Angeles. There the producer Roger Corman became aware of him through a script and he became a "Corman student" , like Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola before .

Payne directed the 1998 film Addams Family, starring Tim Curry (as Gomez Addams) and Daryl Hannah (as Morticia Addams). He wrote the script for the horror comedy Boltneck , which was released in 2000 with actor Ryan Reynolds. He was the scriptwriter and director for the 2001 film Just can't get enough . Together with his wife Tina Illman Payne, he founded the production company The Institution .

Filmography (selection)

as a director

• 1995: Alien Terminator
• 1996: Showgirl Murders
• 1997: Police File X: Murder in our own ranks
• 1998: Addams Family - And the dear relatives ( Addams Family Reunion )
• 2005: Reeker
• 2008: No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker

as a screenwriter

• 2000: Boltneck
• 2001: Just can't get enough
• 2005: Reeker
• 2008: No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker

He was an actor as the Crazy Driver in the 1996 film Showgirl Murders .

Web links

• Dave Payne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography with photo (Spanish)
• Interview with Payne about his film Reeker (French)

Individual evidence

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