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Steve Purcell (director)

American film director and producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7613677 ↗
Source-derived summary

Steve Purcell is an American film director and producer.

For much of his career he worked on a number of live concert films with artists such as Meat Loaf, Alanis Morissette, Trisha Yearwood, B.B. King and Yanni. In 2001, he directed the comedy concert film The Queens of Comedy. From 2001 to 2002, he directed Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the films Holiday in the Sun, Getting There and When in Rome. He previously worked with the Olsens in a number of You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's... productions as a director and editor.

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“Steve Purcell (director)” enters the record as american film director and producer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Steve, Purcell and director can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Steve, Purcell and director.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7613677. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Steve Purcell (director)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.