Brian Levant
In his long career in the entertainment industry, Director/Writer/Producer Brian Levant has been at the creative helm of some of the biggest franchises in family entertainment.
The filmmaker is also is an internationally recognized toy and pop culture collector and is the author and designer of MY LIFE AND TOYS the book of his collections will be in stores September 13 from publisher G Editions and is currently available for pre-sale.
Among Levant’s more than 400 television credits include being the showrunner of Happy Days, Mork & Mindy and The Bad News Bears series. After winning the 1989 Cable Ace Award as Best Director in a Comedy Series, for his long running Leave it to Beaver revival, Levant turned his attention to writing and directing feature films, beginning with Problem Child 2 in 1991. Levant’s feature directing credits include the original Beethoven, the two Steven Spielberg produced Flintstones films, Jingle All the Way starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Disney’s Snow Dogs, Are We There Yet? starring and produced by Ice Cube and the Jackie Chan vehicle, The Spy Next Door.
His films have earned well over two billion dollars in gross revenues and have spawned eleven sequels.
In addition, Levant has produced, written or directed another 10 network and cable films including the Starz Network’s first original production,The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space and the two live action/CGI Scooby Doo films, which remain the Cartoon Network’s highest rated programs of all-time.
Levant has directed musics videos for artists including Brian Setzer and the B-52’s and Illumination Entertainment is currently in pre-production on Levant’s original C.G.I. animated musical feature, which is being produced and the music written by Pharrell Williams.
Levant just completed his fifth annual “Sitcom Boot Camp” writing class at his alma mater, The University of New Mexico and for the past four years has taught the same class as an Adjunct Professor at The University of Arizona. He has also made dozens of appearances at Columbia College’s Semester in L.A. program, Arizona State University, George R.R. Martin’s Stagecoach Foundation, Loyola Marymount University, Long Beach State, USC and The American Film Institute.
Additional awards his works have collected include an 1981 NAACP Image Award for “The Bad News Bears”, 1987 Youth In Film Best Series Award for “Beaver”, the 1992 Genesis Award for Beethoven and the 1988 International Emmy for Best Children and Young People’s Series, for My Secret Identity, which he created.

