---
name: "Steven Lisberger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/steven-lisberger"
fi1m_id: "steven-lisberger"
imdb_id: "nm0513974"
tmdb_id: 12859
wikidata_id: "Q1378661"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "24 April 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T11:46:07.005053+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Steven Lisberger

## Identity

Steven Lisberger

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/steven-lisberger
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** steven-lisberger
- **IMDb ID:** nm0513974
- **TMDB ID:** 12859
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1378661
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Lisberger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1378661, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513974/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12859

Writer and producer. Born 24 April 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 24 April 1951, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Jeffrey Silver](https://film.one/person/jeffrey-silver.md), [Sean Bailey](https://film.one/person/sean-bailey.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 60 (1), 2020s 50 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Lisberger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1378661, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513974/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12859

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*TRON: Legacy*](https://film.one/film/tron-legacy.md) (60), [*TRON: Ares*](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md) (50)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Steven Lisberger is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and animator. He was born on 24 April 1951 in New York City and grew up in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He studied at Tufts University.

Lisberger is best known for writing and directing the 1982 science-fiction film *Tron*, which pioneered extensive use of computer-generated imagery. He also directed and produced the animated television film *Animalympics* (1980), and directed *Hot Pursuit* (1987) and *Slipstream* (1989). He served as producer on *Tron: Legacy* (2010) and *Tron: Ares* (2025), and as creative consultant on the latter.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *TRON: Legacy* (2010), Fi1m 60, as Shaddix — [page](https://film.one/film/tron-legacy.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *TRON: Ares* (2025), Fi1m 50, Producer, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *TRON: Ares* (2025), Producer, Characters, Creative Consultant — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md)
- *TRON: Uprising* (2012), series, Characters
- *Launching the Legacy* (2011), Actor
- *TRON: Legacy* (2010), as Shaddix · Producer, Characters — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/tron-legacy.md)
- *The Early Development of Tron* (2002), Actor
- *The Making of Slipstream* (1989), Actor
- *Slipstream* (1989), Director
- *Hot Pursuit* (1987), Director, Story
- *Tron* (1982), Director, Screenplay, Story, Visual Effects Design Consultant
- *Animalympics* (1980), Director, Writer, Story, Producer
- *Cosmic Cartoon* (1973), Director

## Gallery

- ![Director of the first Tron, Steven Lisberger. Taken at San Diego Comic-Con 2010](https://film.one/media/person/7923/gallery-3ec86c781a71.jpg) Director of the first Tron, Steven Lisberger. Taken at San Diego Comic-Con 2010 — Cameron Yee, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Steven_Lisberger.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![The creator of Tron, Steven Lisberger, on the Tron: Legacy panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if ](https://film.one/media/person/7923/gallery-0f15514e0ee4.jpg) The creator of Tron, Steven Lisberger, on the Tron: Legacy panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Steven_Lisberger_%284839749405%29.jpg/1280px-Steven_Lisberger_%284839749405%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Steven Lisberger](https://film.one/media/person/7923/gallery-ceb3e55eaf75.jpg) Steven Lisberger — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steven_Lisberger_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Steven_Lisberger_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Steven Lisberger speaking at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.](https://film.one/media/person/7923/gallery-cc8cc953811f.jpg) Steven Lisberger speaking at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Steven_Lisberger_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/1280px-Steven_Lisberger_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Steven Lisberger](https://film.one/media/person/7923/gallery-2a909a04d18e.jpg) Steven Lisberger — Image via TMDB
- ![Steven Lisberger](https://film.one/media/person/7923/gallery-0ea5c0366186.jpg) Steven Lisberger — Image via TMDB

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