Mark Neveldine Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with degrees in Drama and Psychology
• Got started as an actor and director in off-Broadway plays after graduating from college
• Quote: "(On his and Brian Taylor's directing style): "It's like a battlefield to us․ We both have a camera in our hands․․․when the guns are going off, we're putting the camera right in the gunman's face․ It's just stuff we can really play and have fun with․""
• Often works with director, producer, and screenwriter Brian Taylor under the title Neveldine/Taylor
• Best known as the director and screenwriter of "Crank," "Crank: High Voltage," and "Gamer․"
• Directed commercials and music videos for Radical Media
• First teamed up with Brian Taylor on "The Keys," for which they invented the "roller dolly" technique, where one of them would wear roller skates and hold onto the bumper of a moving car with one hand and a camera with the other