Jeremy Leven

from South Bend, Indiana, USA

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Biography

Jeremy Leven (born 1941) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. Born in South Bend, Indiana, Leven lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut, Nantucket, and Paris.

Leven was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Harvard University, the University of Connecticut and Yale University Medical School. While at Harvard he founded a satirical revue called The Proposition that ran for ten years in Cambridge, Massachusetts and off-Broadway.

Leven's first novel, Creator, was published in 1980 and released as a film of the same title in 1985. Leven is a practicing clinical psychologist, a theme incorporated in his second novel, "Satan, His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., which was published in 1982 and filmed as Crazy as Hell in 2002.

Leven wrote and directed Don Juan DeMarco (1995), wrote and produced Alex & Emma (2003), and wrote the screenplays for The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and The Notebook (2004). His screenplay for The Time Traveler's Wife was in production in 2007.

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Timeline

2013

  • Poster for Girl on a Bicycle

    Producer

2012

  • Poster for Wer's glaubt wird selig

    Screenplay

2011

  • Poster for Real Steel

    Story

2009

  • Poster for My Sister's Keeper

    Screenplay

2004

  • Poster for The Notebook

    Screenplay

2003

  • Poster for Alex & Emma

    Producer

2002

  • Poster for Crazy As Hell

    Screenplay

2000

  • Poster for The Legend of Bagger Vance

    Screenplay

1994

  • Poster for Don Juan DeMarco

    Screenplay

1986

  • Poster for Playing for Keeps

    Writer

1985

  • Poster for Creator

    Screenplay