Harold Leventhal

Harold Leventhal was born on May 24, 1919 in USA. Harold Leventhal's big-screen debut came with Alice's Restaurant directed by Arthur Penn in 1969. Harold Leventhal is known for The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time directed by Jim Brown, Ronnie Gilbert stars as Self and Arlo Guthrie as Self. The upcoming new movie Harold Leventhal plays is The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time which will be released on Mar 07, 1982.

As a teenager, in the 1930s at the height of the Depression, Harold Leventhal was active in left-wing political causes before joining the Irving Berlin Music Co. at 20 years of age where he started as an office boy and rose to the position of music plugger. He served in the Signal Corps during World War II and in 1948 worked on the Henry Wallace Presidential Campaign. During the 1950s he became a key figure in the American Folk Movement becoming the manager for Pete Seeger and the Weavers and later played a major role in the career of Bob Dylan.