- Born
- Birth nameStephen Kevin Bannon
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Stephen K. Bannon is an American media executive, political strategist, and film producer who spent more than two decades working in the entertainment industry as an investment banker, executive producer, and home video distributor. Long before serving as a high-profile political advisor on the national stage, Bannon built a diverse Hollywood portfolio that spanned from financing major network television syndication to managing large-scale independent home video distribution networks.
Bannon shifted heavily into media corporate governance during the mid-2000s, serving as a primary investor and Vice Chairman of American Vantage Media, which acquired the acclaimed independent film distributor Wellspring Media in 2004. Shortly after, Bannon spearheaded the merger of these assets into Genius Products, where he assumed the role of Chairman of the Board. Under his executive leadership, the company aggressively expanded its catalog to encompass over 1,500 DVD titles, distributing everything from international art-house cinema to prominent mainstream media brands.
His most lucrative entertainment venture arrived in late 2005, when Bannon leveraged his corporate finance background to orchestrate a major partnership with Harvey and Bob Weinstein's newly formed The Weinstein Company (TWC). The landmark deal resulted in TWC acquiring a 70% controlling stake in Genius Products, establishing the company as the primary home entertainment and DVD distribution pipeline for all of TWC's theatrical film releases. Bannon later co-founded ARC Entertainment in 2010, utilizing his extensive distribution background to market family-friendly programming and independent documentaries before fully pivoting into political media.
- IMDb mini biography by: Nizam Miah
- SpousesDiane Clohesy(2006 - 2009) (divorced)Mary Louise Piccard(April 14, 1995 - 1997) (divorced, 2 children)Cathleen Suzanne Houff(August 4, 1979 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesMary Beth Meredith(Sibling)Michael Bannon(Sibling)Sharon Rosenstock(Sibling)Martin J. Bannon III(Sibling)Chris Bannon(Sibling)
- Far-right-talking-points
- Conspiracy theories
- Has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
- Had an annual salary of $179,700 under the Trump administration.[July 2017].
- Breitbart News executive chairman.
- Is one of five siblings, the son of Doris (Herr) and Martin J. Bannon, an AT&T telephone lineman and middle manager. He is from a Catholic family, of Irish, and smaller amounts of German, Bohemian, Scottish, and English, descent.
- Brother of producers Mary Beth Meredith and Chris Bannon.
- [on the liberal media bias] The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what's wrong with this country. It's just a circle of people talking to themselves who have no fucking idea what's going on. If The New York Times didn't exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. The Huffington Post and everything else is predicated on The New York Times. It's a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information - and her confidence. That was our opening. [Nov.2016]
- Like Andrew Jackson's populism, we're going to build an entirely new political movement. It's everything related to jobs. The conservatives are going to go crazy. I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Ship yards, iron works, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution - conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement. [Nov.2016]
- [on Donald Trump] He gets it; he gets it intuitively. You have probably the greatest orator since William Jennings Bryan, coupled with an economic populist message and two political parties that are so owned by the donors that they don't speak to their audience. But he speaks in a non-political vernacular, he communicates with these people in a very visceral way. Nobody in the Democratic party listened to his speeches, so they had no idea he was delivering such a compelling and powerful economic message. He shows up 3.5 hours late in Michigan at 1 in the morning and has 35,000 people waiting in the cold. When they got [Hillary Clinton] off the donor circuit she went to Temple University and they drew 300 or 400 kids. [Nov.2016]
- I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist. The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get fucked over. If we deliver, we'll get 60 percent of the white vote, and 40 percent of the black and Hispanic vote and we'll govern for 50 years. That's what the Democrats missed. They were talking to these people with companies with a $9 billion market cap employing 9 people. It's not reality. They lost sight of what the world is about. [Nov.2016]
- [on Hillary Clinton's expensive campaign] I knew that she couldn't close. They out-spent us 10-to-1, had 10 times more people and had all the media with them, but I kept saying it doesn't matter, they got it all wrong, we've got this locked. [Nov.2016]
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