Steve Starkey

Steve Starkey is an American film producer and second unit director who is widely associated with Robert Zemeckis. He served as an assistant film editor for both The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) and as second unit director on all of Robert Zemeckis' films from Forrest Gump (1994) to The Walk (2015) in addition to serving as a producer.^[1]

Filmography

Film

Producer

Year	Title	Credit	Director
1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Associate producer	Robert Zemeckis
1989	Back to the Future Part II
1990	Back to the Future Part III
1992	Noises Off	Co-producer	Peter Bogdanovich
	Death Becomes Her	Producer	Robert Zemeckis
1994	Forrest Gump
1997	Contact
2000	What Lies Beneath
	Cast Away
2003	Matchstick Men		Ridley Scott
2004	The Polar Express		Robert Zemeckis
2005	The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio		Jane Anderson
2006	Last Holiday	Executive producer	Wayne Wang
	Monster House	Producer	Gil Kenan
2007	Beowulf		Robert Zemeckis
2009	A Christmas Carol
2011	Mars Needs Moms		Simon Wells
	Real Steel	Executive producer	Shawn Levy
2012	Flight	Producer	Robert Zemeckis
2015	The Walk
2016	Allied
2018	Welcome to Marwen

Second unit director or assistant director

Year	Title	Role	Director
1994	Forrest Gump	Second unit director	Robert Zemeckis
1997	Contact
2000	What Lies Beneath
	Cast Away
2004	The Polar Express
2007	Beowulf
2009	A Christmas Carol
2012	Flight
2015	The Walk

Editorial department

Year	Title	Role	Director
1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Assistant film editor	Irvin Kershner
1983	Return of the Jedi		Richard Marquand

Thanks

Year	Title	Role	Director
1995	Congo	Special thanks	Frank Marshall
1996	The Frighteners		Peter Jackson

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1985−1987	Amazing Stories	Associate producer
1993	Johnny Bago	Executive producer
1999	Robert Zemeckis on Smoking, Drinking and Drugging in the 20th Century: In Pursuit of Happiness	Producer	Documentary