Ira Levin

Ira Levin was born on Aug 27, 1929 in USA. Ira Levin's big-screen debut came with A Kiss Before Dying directed by Gerd Oswald in 1956. Ira Levin is known for He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley directed by Michael Merriman, Sherman Andrus stars as Self and Bill Baize as Self. Ira Levin has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Ira Levin achieved is Bram Stoker Awards. The upcoming new movie Ira Levin plays is The Stepford Wives which will be released on Jun 11, 2004.

Author, playwright and composer Ira Levin decided on a career of a writer at the age of 15. Educated at the elite Horace Mann school, he went on to two years at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before transferring to New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English. He earned his degree in 1950. In 1953 he was drafted into the army. Based in Queens, New York, he wrote and produced training films for Uncle Sam before moving into television, penning scripts for such anthology series as Lights Out (1946) and The United States Steel Hour (1953). He made a bright theatre debut at the age of 25 with an adaptation of Mac Hyman's "No Time for Sergeants" (1955). He went on to write several plays, including the longest-running Broadway mystery to date, "Deathtrap" (1978), and several popular novels, including "A Kiss Before Dying", and other plays including "Critics Choice" and "Interlock" and the Broadway stage score and libretto for "Drat the Cat!". Joining ASCAP in 1965, he wrote the popular gospel song "He Touched Me" with his chief musical collaborator Milton Schafer.