Steven Wayne Knight

Knight Court Reporters, Inc - Arts Division
Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Weapons Specialist

Carlsbad, California

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About Steven

Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, Steve enjoyed police work. Vivid memories remain of assignments to Charles Manson and his gang, the S.L.A. gang with Patty Hearst, the Black Panthers gang, and a few infamous souls who worked alone: The Hillside Strangler; Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. the Nightstalker; and over 200 murderers sitting through their preliminary hearings in the L.A. Criminal Courts Building.

Not to mention the East L.A. Riots, and the San Fernando Earthquake as a rudimentary SWAT team (100-man) member for the Los Angeles County Marshal's Department from 1969.

He'll never forget driving his first black-and- white to the L.A. Police Academy
with the radio blaring, "Murder now! Robbery now! Burglary now!" -
and THEN still another "Murder now!"

Steve quickly learned Los Angeles would be a true exciting adventure.

By 1986, his immediate family had accumulated 100 years as Los Angeles peace officers. His father, Raymond J. Knight, Jr., and his uncle and neighbor, Robert F. Knight, were Los Angeles policemen. Steve's grandfather, Raymond J. Knight, Sr., (with prior service with Shanghai, China Police from 1921-1928 / read while working as an import-export manager for the Robert S. Dollar Line Steamship Company) joined the Los Angeles Sheriff's Office in 1929 after service with the Huntington Park Police Department. He helped found the L.A.
FootPrinters Club with Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz in 1931.

SO for three generations family dinner talk focused on police "war" stories.

Steve grew up around such stories that fascinated and enlightened him with both grim reality and understanding of people mixed with humor. Things were exciting to him at 7 years old, when next door to grandpa's a fellow tried to kill his wife with a knife when dad with his grandpa looking on - gave him the LAPD defense treatment back in 1952.

Boy, was he suprised to find his arm broken and his wife alive. Those days are long gone now - when things were handled in-house. BTW - Dad is still kicking at 92 years old plus, today.

Steve's Great Uncle William James Knight, the Union engineer on the famous Confederate General Locomotive in the Civil War, and received the first Congressional Medal of Honor from President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 along with some 12 or so other Union soldiers in two different occasions.

This dramatic historical story is depicted in the films The General,
The Great Locomotive Chase, and The Andrews' Raiders. Several Confederate trains were in pursuit - chasing down the high-jacked General which was doing
some 75 MPH under Engineer Knight - when it was only safe (read licensed) to go around 25 MPH maximum. Who cares when you are out-of-uniform in a stolen train, right?

In 1974, Steve was allowed unlimited admission into the private A.B. Perkins Historical California Scholars Library at the main L.A. County Depository in Valencia, CA. His just- acquired real estate license led him to an interest in the vast California ranchos. Their boundaries to this day are clearly outlined on old county maps. Such was the birth of his lifelong passion for California's historical past. His love of Los Angeles and Southern California grew beyond just being a native.

However, he also lived in Las Vegas, NV, 1996-2001; and prior was a Washoe County deputy sheriff in Reno, NV, back in 1981-1982.

Steve's novels 1853 Los Angeles Gangs and 1857 Los Angeles Fights Again are a labor of love comprising thousands of hours of research. These exciting, action-filled stories read like a motion picture. Steve's education from the University of Redlands, Redlands, California, both post graduate and undergraduate, led Steve to a successful post-law enforcement career
in teaching college, and owning and managing a 27-year court reporting business.

He also was a real estate as a broker and the horse racing pari-mutuel supervisor during his main careers. He loved to keep busy. I forgot to mention he was a grocery store manager (read Lucky Stores) in high school at 17 years old.

Then later in 2001, he was made an honorary commissioner for San Diego Police Historical Association; and also a technical advisor for the Long Beach Police Historical Society. He had assisted in some eight historical national police type books; and had written Badge Hallmarks for Police and Fire Collectors.

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Steve learned from his family and many careers to empathize with and appreciate all people, from the highest to the lowest; and the brightest and slowest. His unique ability to capture in the written word reality blended with understanding and humor is what makes him an endearing, outstanding storyteller.

Today he and his wife have recently won 10 nominations/awards against thousands and thousands of entries; and two Hollywood considers for their feature screenplay all based upon their first novel. It is an epic western biographical picture much like Braveheart and Dances with Wolves. A romance publisher actually published his first novel even considering the explicit drama and action.

So that now to date makes some eight careers and 20 job titles - many at the same time.

Thank you for taking the time to read my bio - Steven Wayne Knight

Unique traits: Steve learned from his family and many careers to empathize with and appreciate all people, from the highest to the lowest; and the brightest and slowest. His unique ability to capture in the written word reality blended with understanding and humor is what makes him an endearing, outstanding storyteller.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6' 2"

Weight:
200

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Salt/Pepper

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Latin/Hispanic

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HORACE BELL Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Western Horace Bell and Juan Flores, co-protagonists in this historical western drama set in the 1850s California Gold Rush, are both driven by revenge; Horace against Juan and his gang for killing his best friend Paul; and Juan against the American miners who butchered his wife and unborn son. California's gold rich state is the prize to the winner.