Steve Barron
Steve Barron (born 4 May 1956 Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish director for feature films and music videos, and film producer.
Life
Barron, son of filmmaker Zelda Barron British (1929-2006), the late 1970s, music videos for British New Wave bands such as The Jam, Adam & the Ants, The Human League, OMD and Heaven began to turn 17. In the 1980s, he was one of the most successful music video directors. He turned, among other clips for Toto ( Rosanna, Africa), Tears for Fears ( Mad World), Madonna ( Burning Up ), Michael Jackson ( Billie Jean), Bryan Adams ( This Time, Cuts Like a Knife, Run to You, Heaven, Summer of '69 ), Rod Stewart ( Baby Jane ), a-ha ( Take On Me, The Sun Always Shines on TV, Hunting High and Low, Cry Wolf, The Living Daylights ), Dire Straits ( Money for Nothing ) and David Bowie ( Underground, As the World Falls Down ).
In 1984 he directed his first feature film Electric Dreams, and since the early 1990s, Barron works primarily as a film and television director. For the miniseries Merlin, he was nominated for an Emmy and a DGA Award.