Lee Levinson

Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Lee Edward Levinson is a veteran of more than 35 years in the entertainment industry. Starting early in life, he performed as "The Boy Hypnotist" at ages 13-17 touring throughout the United States. From ages 21-30, he performed as a professional memory expert under the stage name, "Lee Edwards - The Mental Wreck" at leading Catskill resort hotels in summer and the Miami Beach hotel circuit during winter. He demonstrated memory feats on several television and radio shows including the Don & Bob Show in Miami, The Joe Delaney Show in Las Vegas as well as the original Larry King Radio Show live from Pumpernicks in Miami Beach. Mr. Levinson was also a parapsychology researcher, studying under the late Eileen Garrett, President of The Parapsychology Foundation, New York City and the late Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine (JB Rhine) at The Foundation for Research on The Nature of Man, Durham, North Carolina. It was Dr. Rhine who coined the well-known phrase "ESP." Mr. Levinson's field research with hypnosis and ESP was published in the International Journal of Parapsychology and the Journal of Parapsychology, Herzliya, Israel -- published by filmmaker and parapsychologist, the late Margot Klausner. Mr. Levinson's experiments in parapsychology have been excerpted in best-selling books including "ESP and Hypnosis", by Suzy Smith (The Macmillan Company, New York, New York) and "Supersenses - Our Potential for Parasensory Experience" by Charles Panati (Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company). He also was a personal manager and entertainment publicist in New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Mr. Levinson served as a motion picture-television consultant and producer for The Blue Marble Company, production arm of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT). Blue Marble is the recipient of 2 Peabody Awards and 13 Emmy Awards. Mr. Levinson went on to produce several award-winning films for television including the highly acclaimed Skeezer (1982) earning Mr. Levinson the George Foster Peabody Award as producer and an Emmy nomination. He produced Runaway Father (1991) and Co-Produced The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1980), winner of The Western Heritage Award. This three-hour dramatic event for NBC-TV stars Raquel Welch in her television motion picture debut. Mr. Levinson was Executive Producer (shared credit with Lew Hunter) of Playing with Fire (1985) which starred Cicely Tyson. Most recently, Mr. Levinson produced Out of the Ashes (2003) for Showtime Networks. Based on Holocaust survivor Dr. Gisella Perl's book, 'I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz'; the film was helmed by veteran director Joseph Sargent. Christine Lahti stars as real life Doctor Gisella Perl. The film is based on Dr. Perl's harrowing tale of her own survival while saving many women's lives during the horrors of the Nazi death camps. Beau Bridges, Bruce Davison, the late Richard Crenna, and Jonathan Cake, as "Dr. Josef Mengele" round out a stellar cast. A former weekly internet columnist for Hollywoodlitsales.com, Mr. Levinson conducts producing workshops at leading U.S. colleges and universities and is currently writing a book, "How To Be a Creative Packager and Producer". He is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) as well as The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS).