Steakley also played a nameless bit part in the 2000 film Playing Dead. Steakley wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film, Scary Texas Movie he also played a nameless bit part in that film.
According to his website, he worked on the incomplete Armor II for years. He published two major novels, Armor (1984) and Vampire$ (1990). He published his first professional short story, "The Bluenose Limit", in the March 1981 issue of Amazing Stories and another, "Flyer", in the September 1982 issue.
He sold a film treatment, and played a bit part ("Local 1") in at least one film, Don't Open the Door!, but "he stayed out there a few years and just hated it." Following through on his childhood fantasy of becoming a science fiction writer, Steakley returned to Texas, and wrote. Steakley's sister told the press that he went to Hollywood at the invitation of screenwriter L.M. He died after a five-year battle with liver disease. He was an avid golfer and in the mid-1990s carried a single-digit handicap. In 1988, Steakley married photographer Lori Jones they held their wedding reception in the showroom of a local Subaru dealership. He then went on to study at Westminster College in Missouri, and at Southern Methodist University, where he received his BA in English. Mark's School and graduated from Colorado Academy, a boarding school in Denver. Steakley's father owned a Chevrolet dealership in Dallas from 1962 until he sold it in 1999. Aside from brief spells in South America and Hollywood, Steakley lived most of his life in Texas. He published four short science fiction and fantasy stories. He published two major novels, Armor (1984) and Vampire$ (1990) the latter was the basis for John Carpenter's Vampires movie. (J– November 27, 2010) was an American science fiction author.
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