George J. Steiner Jr., a onetime head of the Louisiana Film Commission and founding president of the now-shuttered Filmworks New Orleans production facility, has died.
He was 68. Steiner died Sept. 25 of heart attack in a New Orleans hospital, his former business partner Phil Caruso reported.
A longtime member of the DGA and IATSE Local 478, Steiner spent 50 years working on films, TV shows and commercials in the Crescent City.
He was an executive producer on Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way (2014), a set production assistant on Ender's Game (2013) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and an assistant location manager on Terminator Genisys (2015).
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