Stephen Sommers
Stephen Sommers is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for big-budget action films, such as The Mummy (1999), its sequel, The Mummy Returns (2001), Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). He also directed The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Disney's first live action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) and the action horror film Deep Rising (1998).
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- Indianapolis
- Educated at
- University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of SevilleUSC School of Cinematic ArtsCollege of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
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