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Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions was an American film production company based in Beverly Hills, California.
The principals, Jules V. Levy, Arthur Gardner, and Arnold Laven, met while serving in the Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit during World War II. While serving, they decided to form their own production company after the war ended. The three men formed Levy-Gardner-Laven in 1951.
Laven produced both films and television shows, and he directed many popular American television shows, including episodes of The A-Team, CHiPs, Mannix, The Big Valley, The Greatest American Hero and Hill Street Blues. Gardner was an actor prior to World War II, but chose to produce after the company was formed. Along with Levy, who was a script supervisor prior to the war, Gardner wrote the story for a 1982 movie called Safari 3000.
Levy-Gardner-Laven maintains an office in Beverly Hills, but their last production credit was in 1982.
Jules V. Levy, Arthur Gardner and Arnold Laven met in 1943 in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force; they were stationed at the Hal Roach Studio in Culver City, California (with other notables such as Capt. Ronald Reagan, Capt. Clark Gab le and Lt. William Holden, etc.), making training films. Levy, Gardner and Laven resolved that they would start their own independent motion picture company after they got out of the Air Force; all were discharged in 1945, but their company wasn't formed until 1951. (In the interim, Levy and Laven worked as script supervisors and Gardner as an assistant director and production manager.) The first Levy-Gardner-Laven film was 1952's "Without Warning"'; in the decades since, they have produced dozens of additional features and several TV series (including "The Rifleman," "Law of the Plainsman," "The Detectives, Starring Robert Taylor" and "The Big Valley."




