Kevin Williamson Filmography

Born:: March 14, 1965 in New Bern, NC
Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Perhaps the screenwriter most identified with teenage horror and hormones in the 1990s, Kevin Williamson has risen swiftly through the screenwriting ranks, thanks to both the phenomenal success of the Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer series and Dawson's Creek, his hit series for the WB...Read More

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Hidden Palms [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Show Creator

Actors: Michael Cassidy, Taylor Handley, Amber Heard, Sharon Lawrence, D.W. Moffett

Synopsis: Originally titled Palm Springs, the CW teen-angst series Hidden Palms would seem to have been a bid by producer-creator Kevin Williamson to replicate the success and appeal of his earlier TV hit Dawson's Creek. The series also served to reunite two former stars of the similar series The O.C. Read More

2007
Venom

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A good Samaritan becomes the victim of voodoo spells in this horror story produced by Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson. When an aged Creole woman is caught in a car wreck in a remote section of Louisiana, Ray (Rick Cramer), the owner of a nearby filling station, speeds to the scene of the Read More

9/16/05
Cursed

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Jesse Eisenberg, Judy Greer, Scott Baio

Synopsis: The team behind the Scream trilogy, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, present another entry in the teen-horror genre with Cursed. Starring Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenberg, the film tells the story of two siblings who have to battle a werewolf that has been wreaking havoc Read More

2/25/05
Glory Days [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Kevin Williamson, creator of the theatrical thriller Scream and the weekly teen-angst television series Dawson's Creek, brought elements of both these properties to the Twin Peaks-like TVer Glory Days. The series' 60-minute episodes focused primarily on 25-year-old Mike Dolan, author of a Read More

2002
Scream 3

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Actors: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley

Synopsis: Wes Craven's Scream (1996) was a half-parody/half-tribute to the first wave of slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s, and since most of them spawned a large number of sequels, it's only appropriate that Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson produced a third installment of their Scream franchise. Read More

2/4/00
Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor, Barry Watson, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: After the success of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and television's Dawson's Creek, screenwriter Kevin Williamson made his directorial debut with this screwball thriller in which an honor roll student and two friends kidnap their witchy teacher. Although her single mom (Lesley Ann Read More

8/20/99
Wasteland [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marisa Coughlan, Sasha Alexander, Rebecca Gayheart, Eddie Mills, Dan Montgomery

1999
The Faculty

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Clea Duvall, Jordana Brewster

Synopsis: Miramax Films darlings Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Kevin Williamson teamed up for a high-school alien-horror film that they described as The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dilapidated Herrington High is the location for a story about a school faculty taken over by Read More

12/25/98
Dawson's Creek: Pilot

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Michelle Williams, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Mary Beth Peil, Leann Hunley, Nina Repeta, Obi Ndefo

Synopsis: The debut episode of the hit teen drama Dawson's Creek introduced audiences to Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek), a 15-year-old film enthusiast who desires a career as a director, and his lifelong best friend, Joey Potter (Katie Holmes). The two have spent many a Saturday night watching movies in Read More

1998
Dawson's Creek: Dance

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Michelle Williams, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Mary Beth Peil, Leann Hunley

Synopsis: Dawson (James Van Der Beek) decides to make Jen (Michelle Williams) the lead in the no-budget horror film he is making for a film festival. Jealousy rears its ugly head when Joey (Katie Holmes) sees that Dawson and Jen's relationship might be more than director/actress. Dawson is in for his own Read More

1998
Halloween: H20

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd

Synopsis: This is the seventh movie in this horror series and a 20th anniversary follow-up to John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), arguably the most influential horror film of the '70s, a film that set the standard of horror for the next two decades and catapulted the career of Jamie Lee Curtis. Newspaper Read More

1998
Dawson's Creek [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Flush with success from writing the hit film Scream, Kevin Williamson created the teen drama Dawson's Creek for the fledgling WB network. The series was quickly embraced by a large teen following. A rating success from the outset, Dawson's Creek never earned much critical praise. However, spawning Read More

1998
I Know What You Did Last Summer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Muse Watson, Anne Heche, Johnny Galecki

Synopsis: During the annual July 4th festivities in a North Carolina fishing town, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wins a local beauty contest and departs with her boyfriend Barry (Ryan Philippe) and pals Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.). On their way back home, Ray hits a fisherman Read More

1997
Scream 2

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis: A year after the monstrous success of 1996's neo-slasher flick Scream, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson reunited for this follow-up. Since viewers last saw the characters, nosy newswoman Gale Weathers has written a sleazy best-selling book based on the events of the first Read More

1997
Scream

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lillard, Drew Barrymore

Synopsis: Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-in-cheek position paper on the "dead teenagers" movies of the late 1970s/early 1980s that plays as half-parody, half-tribute. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is having a rough time lately: she's still getting over the brutal rape and murder of her Read More

1996