Bernard Levin Net Worth

Bernard Levin Net Worth is
$1.4 Million

Bernard Levin Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Henry Bernard Levin CBE (19 August 1928 – 7 August 2004) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics, graduating in 1952. After a short spell in a lowly job at the BBC selecting press cuttings for use in programmes, he secured a post as a junior member of the editorial staff of a weekly periodical, Truth, in 1953.Levin reviewed television for The Manchester Guardian and wrote a weekly political column in The Spectator noted for its irreverence and influence on modern parliamentary sketches. During the 1960s he wrote five columns a week for The Daily Mail on any subject that he chose. After a disagreement with the proprietor of the paper over attempted censorship of his column in 1970, Levin moved to The Times where, with one break of just over a year in 1981–82, he remained as resident columnist until his retirement, covering a wide range of topics, both serious and comic.Levin became a well-known broadcaster, first on the weekly satirical television show That Was The Week That Was in the early 1960s, then as a panellist on a musical quiz, Face the Music, and finally in three series of travel programmes in the 1980s. He began to write books in the 1970s, publishing 17 between 1970 and 1998. From the early 1990s, Levin developed Alzheimer's disease, which eventually forced him to give up his regular column in 1997, and to stop writing altogether not long afterwards.

Date Of BirthAugust 19, 1928
Died2004-08-07
Place Of BirthLondon, England, UK
ProfessionWriter, Actor
Star SignLeo
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1[on Montaigne's 'Essays', 1580] I defy any reader not to put down the book at some point and say with incredulity, 'How did he know all that about me?'
2"Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" is a film that lingers on the retina of the mind like the image of a light stared at before the eyes are closed. And the reason is that it offers, in addition to great technical skill and great cinematic excitement, a view, and a view, moreover, of great richness and plausibility.
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1In the early 1960s, he became quite openly infatuated with Vanessa Redgrave, and his reviews of her performances in various classical parts (especially her famous role as Rosalind in "As You Like It") were widely regarded as open love letters, rather than dramatic criticism. In fact, Levin actually did propose marriage to her, but she gently turned him down, being about to marry the director Tony Richardson. He never forgave her; although he continued to admit that she was a fine actress, he reviled her in print, ostensibly for her left-wing political beliefs, for well over thirty years.
2He claimed to dislike the cinema, and hardly ever saw films (although he acted in one, "Nothing But The Best", which was directed by his cousin, Clive Donner). He was, however, a great enthusiast for Abel Gance's "Napoleon" (he admitted that he had never heard of its director before seeing it) and the films of Steven Spielberg, in particular "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" and "E.T.", both of which he wrote about at length.
3He had a long relationship with Arianna Stassinopolous (later Huffington), starting in the 1970s, but they never married. After his death, she claimed they had broken up because he refused to father a child by her, and that he had been the great love of her life.
4In 1963 he was famously punched by writer Desmond Leslie in front of an audience of millions on the BBC TV programme That Was The Week That Was, which was transmitted live. Levin had given a bad review of the one-woman show From Brecht to Brecht, Cabarets of Savagery and Delight, which featured Leslie's then wife Agnes Bernelle.
5Appointed a CBE for "services to journalism" in 1990.
6He also wrote The Pendulum Years, Taking Sides, Speaking Up and The Way We Live Now.
7He wrote several books, some of them about one of his consuming passions, travel, including Hannibal's Footsteps and To the End of the Rhine, both of which were made into television series.
8He won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital, the public school at Horsham in West Sussex.
9He was brought up in north London at his grandparents' home. They had come from Russia to escape Tsarist persecution at the turn of the century. When he was three, his parents separated, his Lithuanian-born father going to South Africa to seek his fortune.
10He was famous for his Times column which he wrote between 1971 and 1997, and also wrote for the Spectator, Daily Mail and the Daily Express. Ill health forced him to scale back his commitments, but he continued to contribute pieces to The Times until July 1998.

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Eighties1971TV Mini-Series script
That Was the Week That Was1962-1963TV Series writer - 37 episodes
In Their Opinion1962TV Mini-Series script - 1 episode

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life1964TV Series

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The London Programme1992TV Series documentaryHimself
The Green Man1990TV Mini-SeriesHimself
Question Time1981-1989TV SeriesHimself / Himself - Chairman
Wogan1987TV SeriesHimself
The Levin Interviews1980-1984TV SeriesHimself - Interviewer
Bookmark1983TV SeriesHimself - Guest
The Human Brain1982TV Series documentaryHimself
Face the Music1974-1979TV SeriesHimself - Panellist
The Brian Connell Interview1976TV SeriesHimself
Under Bow Bells1976TV SeriesHimself
The Eighties1971TV Mini-SeriesHimself - Presenter, first series
The David Frost Show1971TV SeriesHimself
Music on 21971TV SeriesHimself - Interviewer
The Frost Programme1970TV SeriesHimself
While We're on the Subject1970TV Mini-SeriesHimself
Good Evening!1968TV SeriesHimself
The Levin Interview1966-1967TV Series documentaryHimself - Interviewer
Kee and Levin1966TV SeriesHimself
This Week1963-1965TV SeriesHimself - Interviewer / Himself
1964 General Election1964TV Special documentaryHimself
Nothing But the Best1964Himself
That Was the Week That Was1962-1963TV SeriesHimself
In Their Opinion1962TV Mini-SeriesHimself
Panorama1960TV Series documentaryHimself
The Election Results1959TV MovieHimself

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Frost on Satire2010TV Movie documentaryHimself - Satirist
Welsh Greats2008TV Series documentaryHimself
The Anti-Establishment Club2002TV Movie documentaryHimself
100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell2000TV SpecialHimself
Joyce Grenfell 1910-19791980TV Movie documentary

Known for movies

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