Jefery Levy (born May 21, 1958) is an American film and television director, producer, and writer based in Beverly Hills, California.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 The Key
• 2 Teaching appointments
• 3 Selected filmography
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

In 1985, while a graduate student at UCLA, Levy wrote and produced the low-budget hit Ghoulies, a horror-comedy film featuring small, demonic creatures. He has produced and directed dozens of TV and film projects over a span of three decades and is most recently known for the 2015 film ME, which he directed, produced, wrote, and starred in.

Levy's Debut feature, "Drive" starring Academy Award nominee David Warner, won the FIPRESCI Award at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival.

The Key

Levy's 2014 film adaption of the novel The Key by the *anese writer Junichiro Tanizaki premiered at the Real Experiment Film Festival at the Laemmle Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills. The Key explores the twisted sexual life and marriage of a Los Angeles couple through their private journals in an explicit cinematic portrayal.

Teaching appointments

From 1991 to 1996, Levy served as the youngest *ociate Professor at USC School of Cinema/Television. Levy was also a faculty member of The American Film Ins*ute (where he taught the master directing cl* from 1995-1996).

Selected filmography

• Ghoulies (1985)
• Rockula (1990)
• Drive (1991)
• Inside Monkey Zetterland (1993)
• S.F.W. (1994)
• Sliders (1997) (TV)
• Lawless (1997) (TV)
• Roar (1998) (TV)
• Spy Game (1998) (TV)
• Hollyweird (1998) (TV Pilot)
• Invincible (1999) (TV Pilot)
• Et Tu Babe (1999)
• Iggy Vile M.D. (1999) (TV)
• Profiler (1999) (TV)
• Get Real (1999) (TV)
• Secret Agent Man (1999) (TV Pilot)
• The Expendables (2000) (TV Pilot)
• Freakylinks (2000) (TV Pilot)
• Dark Angel (2000) (TV)
• Harsh Realm (2000) (TV)
• Roswell (2001)
• UC: Undercover (2001) (TV)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2001) (TV)
• Night Visions (2001) (TV)
• Keen Eddie (2003) (TV)
• Queens Supreme (2003) (TV)
• The Dead Zone (2003) (TV)
• Numb3rs (2005) (TV)
• Rescue Me (2005) (TV)
• Monk (2006) (TV)
• Eureka (2006) (TV Pilot)
• Las Vegas (2006) (TV)
• Ghost Whisperer (2005) (TV)
• The Key (2014)
• ME (2015)

References

External links

• Jefery Levy at IMDb
• Official Website