Dan Houser

Dan Houser
Born	May 24, 1974 (1974-05-24) (age 37)
Nationality	English
Other names	Video game credits
Known for	Vice president (along with his brother Sam) of creativity for Rockstar Games.

Dan Houser (born May 24, 1974) is an English video game producer and vice president (along with his brother Sam) of creativity for Rockstar Games.^[1] As well as producing video games, Houser has written for all but one of the Grand Theft Auto III-era games, along with other Rockstar-produced video games.

Biography

Despite wanting to be musicians, both Dan and Sam Houser had a fascination with storytelling from a young age. Growing up near a video library in London, they would spend most of their time watching American crime and cult films and Spaghetti Westerns. Dan has stated his favourite film is Walter Hills' The Warriors. Dan Houser has since been credited as a producer for five Grand Theft Auto games, and also works as a writer and voice artist for the series.^[2]

Despite their cult-hero status as creators of Grand Theft Auto, one of the most successful video game franchises of all time, Dan and his brother Sam have shied away from the celebrity spotlight, instead focusing on the Rockstar Games brand, rather than giving any one person the credit for the games' success. In 2009, both Dan and Sam Houser appeared in Time Magazine's most 100 influential people of 2009 list.

Video game credits

Producer

• Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
• Smuggler's Run: Warzones (2002)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006)
• Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City (2009 & 2010)

Writer

• Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969 (1999)
• Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)
• Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
• Smuggler's Run 2: Hostile Territory (2001)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006)
• Bully (2006)
• Bully: Scholarship Edition (2008)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (2009)
• Red Dead Redemption (2010)
• Max Payne 3 (2012)
• Grand Theft Auto V

Voice actor

• X-Squad (2000)
• Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)

References

1. ^ Stahie, Silviu. "Rockstar's Position on Critics". Softpedia. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rockstar-s-Position-on-Critics-10805.shtml. 
2. ^ "Dan Houser IMDB Entry". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396744/. Retrieved April 12, 2007. 

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