Sean S. Cunningham

Biography

Sean Sexton Cunningham is an American filmmaker born on December 31, 1941, in New York City. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and earned an MFA from Stanford University before working as a theater manager, where he began making feature films, including the debut "The Art of Marriage" (1970). Cunningham went on to co-create and direct the box-office hit "Friday the 13th" (1980), which spawned a successful franchise.