Jack Levin

Jack Levin (born John Douglas Le Vien; 17 July 1914 – 9 November 1999) was an American television producer, active in British and American television.

Early life Le Vien was born in New York City in 1914. In 1930, he was employed by Pathé News as an office boy. He eventually was promoted to film editing and then to reporting.

Career Le Vien joined the U.S. Army in 1941 and was commissioned as a public relations officer. Promoted to lieutenant colonel he became a senior press aide to General Eisenhower, taking part in the North African, Sicilian, Italian and Normandy landings. After the war, he returned to Pathe as news editor, then editor-in-chief and vice-president. After Pathe closed their office, Le Vien established his own film and TV production company. In 1961, he was the executive producer of The Valiant Years a documentary made by ABC television with the cooperation of the BBC. Subsequently, Le Vien turned the documentary into a book, Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years, published in 1962. The same year, he was the executive producer of the Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler, which won the 1963 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Death Le Vien died in 1999 at his residence in London.