Mark Stein (author) History Channel series by the same name. Mark Stein (author) Mark Stein (born 1951) is an American writer. Raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973. Stein wrote the screenplay for the Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin film "Housesitter." His stage plays were first produced at New Playwrights Theater of Washington, D.C. From there he went on to productions at Actors Theater of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and elsewhere. His non-fiction book, "How the States Got
Ron Silver trial. From 1991 to 2000, Silver served as president of the Actors' Equity Association. He played a film producer in "Best Friends" opposite Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn (1982), an actor in "Lovesick" (1983) and a film director in "Mr. Saturday Night" (1992). Silver portrayed a corrupt, rogue senator in the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller "Timecop". On television in 1998, he starred opposite Kirstie Alley for season two of her TV comedy series "Veronica's Closet". In other films based on true stories, Silver portrayed tennis player Bobby Riggs in the TV docudrama "When Billie Beat Bobby" (2001), about