Barry Levinson
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Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor.
Levinson's best-known films include Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997).
He received the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988), which also earned the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Early life
Levinson is of Russian-Jewish descent.
Levinson attended Baltimore City Community College and American University in Washington, D.C., where he studied broadcast journalism, before growing up in Forest Park, Baltimore, and graduating from Forest Park Senior High School in 1960.
He then moved to Los Angeles to work as an actor and writer, as well as doing comedian routines. Levinson once shared an apartment with would-be drug smuggler (and subject of the film Blow) George Jung.
Career
Levinson's first writing assignments included shows such as The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, The Lohman and Barkley Show, The Tim Conway Show, and The Carol Burnett Exhibition. Levinson began his work as a screenwriter, with Mel Brooks' Silent Movie (1976) and High Anxiety (1977) (in which he appeared as a bellboy) and the Oscar-nominated script (co-written by then-wife Valerie Curtin) – and Justice for All (1979) – Levinson began his career as a screenwriter.
Diner (1982), which also wrote the script, was his first directorial effort, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Diner was the first of four films shot in Levinson's youth in Baltimore. The other three were Tin Men (1987), a tale of aluminum-siding salesmen starring Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito, and Avalon (1990), starring Elijah Wood in one of his first film appearances; and Liberty Heights (1999).
Rain Man (1988), a sibling drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in which Levinson appeared as a doctor in a cameo appearance, was his biggest hit, both physically and financially. The film received four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won the Golden Bear at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
Levinson starred Robert Redford in the famous period baseball drama The Natural (1984). Redford would later direct Quiz Show (1994), and he portrayed Levinson as TV host Dave Garroway. Levinson wrote the classic war comedy Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), starring Robin Williams (as Adrian Cronauer), and he later collaborated with Williams on the fantasy film Toys (1992) and Man of the Year (2006). Levinson produced the critically acclaimed historical crime drama Bugsy (1991), starring Warren Beatty and which was nominated for ten Academy Awards.
Dustin Hoffman supervised Dustin Hoffman again in Wag the Dog (1997), a political comedy co-starring Robert De Niro about a war staged in a film theatre. (Levinson had been an uncredited co-writer on Hoffman's 1982 hit comedy Tootsie.) At the 48th Berlin International Film Festival, the film received the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize.
Levinson formed Baltimore Pictures, a film production firm, in 1990's Avalon, the company's first film. In 1994, Johnson left the company for the first time. Levinson has worked as a producer or executive producer for such films as The Perfect Storm (2000), directed by Wolfgang Petersen; Analyze That (2002), starring De Niro as a neurotic mob boss and Billy Crystal as his therapist; and Possession (2002), based on A. S. Byatt's best-selling book.
Levinson (The Levinson/Fontana Company) is a television production company based in Levinson, Texas) and has appeared in a variety of series, including Homicide: Life on the Street (which aired on NBC from 1993 to 1999) and the HBO prison drama Oz. In the short-lived TV series The Jury, Levinson also played an uncredited key role as a judge.
Levinson's first book, Sixty-Six (ISBN 0-7679-1533-X), was released in 2003, and like many of his films, it was semi-autobiographical and set in Baltimore in the 1960s. In 2004, he produced two webisodes for the American Express ads "The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman." He was also the recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award in 2004. Levinson directing a documentary PoliWood about the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions: Tim Daly, Robin Bronk, and Robert E. Baruc co-produced the film for the first time at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
Levinson, a Boston crime boss, was filming a film based on Whitey Bulger, who was based on Whitey Bulger. The film Black Mass (script by Jim Sheridan, Jez Butterworth, and Russell Gewirtz) is based on Dick Lehr's book, and it is said to be Billy Bulger's "true tale" of Billy Bulger, Whitey Bulger, FBI agent John Connelly, and J. Edgar Hoover's witness protection service. Levinson left the company later.
On The Humbling (2014), Levinson finished production, starring Al Pacino. Rock the Kasbah (2015), directed by Mitch Glazer, was also directed by Levinson. Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Zooey Deschanel, Lewis Deschanel, Craig Caan, Danny McBride, Kelly Lynch, Arian Moayed, Taylor Kinney, and Beejan Land appeared in the film.
Levinson received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement in 2010, which is the Writers Guild of America's lifetime achievement award.
