Howard Storm (director)

{{short description|American actor and director (b. 1931)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1931|12|11}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

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| occupation = Actor, film and television director

| years_active= 1959-present

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Howard Storm (born December 11, 1931){{r|auto}} is an American film director,{{cite web|first=Janet|last=Maslin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B05E6DA1338F936A25752C1A963948260|title=Once Bitten (1985) FILM: 'ONCE BITTEN,' VAMPIRE HUMOR|date=November 15, 1985|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013180146/https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B05E6DA1338F936A25752C1A963948260|archive-date=2014-10-13|url-status=live|work=The New York Times|via=Wayback Machine}} television director, and actor.

Storm's acting credits include The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Rhoda, and Sanford and Son, among other television series.

In 1975, he began his directing career, directing episodes of Laverne & Shirley, Busting Loose, Joanie Loves Chachi, Mork & Mindy, Taxi, The Redd Foxx Show, Full House, ALF, and Head of the Class, among other series.{{Cite web |url=http://www2.emerson.edu/comedy/collection/upload/Howard-Storm-Scripts_Final.pdf |title=The Howard Storm Script Collection |access-date=2010-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811174633/http://www2.emerson.edu/comedy/collection/upload/Howard-Storm-Scripts_Final.pdf |archive-date=2011-08-11 |url-status=dead |via=Wayback Machine}} He was also Woody Allen's assistant/collaborator on Bananas and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).

In 1985, Storm directed his only feature film, Once Bitten, starring Lauren Hutton and Jim Carrey. In 2010, he made a small guest appearance in the film Valentine's Day.