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Barry Levinson

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Barry Levinson

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Also known as Barry Lee Levinson

American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer

OverviewAI-generated

Barry Levinson is an American male artist whose professional career began in 1970. He is recognized as an author with eighteen recorded works, including *The natural*, *Paterno*, *The bay*, *Best friends*, and *The wizard of lies*. Additionally, he has been acknowledged in the Academy Award Best Director collection.

Levinson’s musical output has been associated with blues and blues rock genres. His work has been referenced by 1,073 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
18

Top works

  • The natural
  • Paterno
  • The bay
  • Best friends
  • The wizard of lies

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1942-04-02

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,246
Total plays
8,250

Tags

bluesblues rock

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Barry+Levenson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Barry Levenson

Key facts

Born
Barry Lee Levinson , ( 1942-04-06 ) April 6, 1942 (age 84) , Baltimore , Maryland, U.S.
Alma mater
American University
Occupations
Director screenwriter producer
Years active
1970–present
Children
2, including Sam

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Levinson won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). His other best-known works are Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bugsy (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barry Levinson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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