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Nicholas Meyer Biography (1945-)

Born December 24, 1945, in New York, NY; son of Bernard Constant (a psychoanalyst) and Elly (a concert pianist; maiden name, Kassman) Meyer; married Lauren Leigh Taylor, June 6, 1984. Addresses: Agent: Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Director, screenwriter, producer, actor, novelist

Birth Details

December 24, 1945

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Director
• Time after Time, Warner Bros., 1979
• Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (also known as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan--The Director's Edition), Paramount, 1982
• The Pied Piper, 1984
• Volunteers, TriStar, 1985
• The Deceivers, Cinecom, 1988
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Paramount, 1991
• Company Business, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1991
• Film Work
• Executive producer, Collateral Damage, Warner Bros., 2002
• Television Work
• Movies
• Director, The Day After, ABC, 1983
• Executive producer, The Informant, Showtime, 1997
• Director, Vendetta, HBO, 1999
• Television Executive Producer
• Miniseries
• The Odyssey (also known as Homer's Odyssey), 1997
• Television Work
• Episodic
• Directed "Pied Piper," Faerie Tale Theatre (also known as Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre).
• Television Appearances
• Movies
• George Raft, Mae West, 1982
• Specials
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special, 1991
• Commentator, Trailer Park, Sci-Fi Channel, 1996
• Interviewee, Intimate Portrait: Kim Cattrall, Lifetime, 2000
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• Invasion of the Bee Girls (also known as Graveyard Tramps),Centaur, 1973
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (adapted from his novel of the same name), Universal, 1976
• Time after Time (based on a story by Karl Alexander and Steve Hayes), Warner Bros., 1979
• (Uncredited) Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (also known as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan--The Director's Edition), Paramount, 1982
• Volunteers, TriStar, 1985
• (With Harve Bennett, Steve Meerson, and Peter Krikes) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (from a story by Leonard Nimoy and Bennett; based on characters created by Gene Roddenberry), Paramount, 1986
• Fatal Attraction, Paramount, 1987
• (With Denny Martin Flinn) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (from a story by Nimoy, Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal; based on characters created by Roddenberry), Paramount, 1991
• Company Business, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1991
• (With Sarah Kernochan) Sommersby (based on the film The Returnof Martin Guerre, screenplay by Daniel Vigne and Jean-Claude Carriere), Warner Bros., 1993
• Voices (also known as Voices from a Locked Room), 1995
• (Additional screenplay material) The Prince of Egypt (animated), DreamWorks, 1998
• Dr. Dolittle, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998
• Collateral Damage, Warner Bros., 2002
• The Human Stain, Miramax, 2003
• Television Movies
• Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (also known as The HauntedMonastery), ABC, 1974
• (With Anthony Wilson) The Night That Panicked America (also knownas Please Stand By; based on Mercury Theatre radio adaptation of H. G.Wells's The War of the Worlds), ABC, 1975
• The Informant, Showtime, 1997
• Fall from the Sky, 2002
• Novels
• Target Practice, Harcourt, 1974
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences ofJohn H. Watson, M.D., Dutton, 1974
• The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D.,Dutton, 1976
• (With Barry Jap Kaplan) Black Orchid, Dial, 1977
• Confessions of a Homing Pigeon, Dial, 1981
• The Canary Trainer, 1993
• Nonfiction
• The "Love Story" Story, Avon, 1971
• Contributor of numerous film reviews to Daily Iowan, 1964-1968

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Entertainment Weekly, February 17, 1995, p. 67
• Variety, September 22, 1997, p. 50