Leslie Stevens Director -

Born February 3, 1924 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Died April 24, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA (blood clot)

Birth Name Leslie Clark Stevens IV

Mini Bio (2) Leslie Stevens IV was a Navy brat. The son of Adm. Leslie Stevens made his mark first on Broadway, where his play, "The Marriage Go-Round", was a hit. He eventually wrote the screenplay for a movie version in 1960. After adapting Gore Vidal's "The Left-Handed Gun" to the screen in 1959, Stevens produced a low-budget melodrama, Private Property (1960), which starred his then-wife Kate Manx and was filmed at his Hollywood Hills home. The movie led to other work. In the early 1960s, Stevens was the head of Daystar Productions, one of the few independent TV production companies to survive amid the majors. Daystar created the Stoney Burke (1962) and The Outer Limits (1963) series. His 1965 movie Incubus (1966), which starred William Shatner and featured dialog spoken in Esperanto, was withdrawn from circulation by Stevens, who never released the movie beyond a few film festival showings. Stevens claimed in interviews that the deaths of two actors from the film made "Incubus" impossible for him to watch. In the 1970s, Stevens went on the payroll at Universal Studios and produced science-fiction series such as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) and Gemini Man (1976). His final movie as a director was Three Kinds of Heat (1987) and, although his output in the 1990s was spotty, he did write a children's film, Gordy (1994).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jeff Frentzen

Leslie Stevens' interest in science was sparked when he studied for Annapolis at the behest of his father, a Navy admiral. But, the Broadway theatre intrigued him more than a military career, and he headed for New York as a fledging writer. It was a wise decision. He wrote the hit Broadway comedy "Marriage-Go-Round", which he later adapted to the screen, and produced, as a starring vehicle for Susan Hayward. He wrote the screenplay for The Left Handed Gun (1958), directed by Arthur Penn and starring Paul Newman. Other films which Stevens produced, directed and wrote included Hero's Island (1962), starring James Mason, and Private Property (1960), starring Warren Oates. In television, he created The Outer Limits (1963) series, which he also wrote, directed and supervised as executive producer. He was writer, director and executive producer of the pilot film and major episodes of It Takes a Thief (1968) and McCloud (1970) and wrote and produced installments for the series, The Invisible Man (1975) and Gemini Man (1976).

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Shakti Chen (29 September 1984 - 24 April 1998) his death

Lorraine Yolanda Kocourek (1968 - 24 April 1984) divorced 2 children

Allyson Ames (3 October 1965 - 30 November 1966) (divorced)

Kate Manx (11 May 1958 - 30 July 1964) divorced 1 child

Ruth "Ramse" Carroll (6 June 1950 - 1953) (divorced)

Trivia (1)

In November of 2020, McFarland Books published a trade paperback entitled Leslie Stevens Goes to Hollywood. The book is primarily concerned with Stevens' early years in show business and the making of Private Property.

Leslie Clark Stevens IV (February 3, 1924 – April 24, 1998) was an American producer, writer, and director. He created two television series for the ABC network, The Outer Limits (1963–1965) and Stoney Burke (1962–63), and Search (1972–73) for NBC. Stevens was the director of the horror film Incubus (1966), which stars William Shatner, and was the second film to use the Esperanto language. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, est: The Steersman Handbook (1970).

Biography Stevens was born in Washington, D.C. His interest in science was sparked when he studied for the United States Naval Academy at the behest of his father, Leslie Clark Stevens III, an admiral in the United States Navy. But the Broadway theater intrigued him more than a military career, and he headed for New York as a fledgling writer. He sold his play The Mechanical Rat, to Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre and ran away from home to join the troupe before being returned home by truant officers.

During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Forces becoming a Captain at the age of 20. He attended Yale's Drama Department following the war.

His first play Bullfight starring Hurd Hatfield opened off Broadway in 1954. It was followed by The Champagne Complex the following year. His play The Lovers (1956), starring Joanne Woodward, was later filmed as The War Lord (1965). He wrote the Broadway comedy The Marriage-Go-Round (1956), which he adapted to the screen, and produced, as a starring vehicle for Susan Hayward, which was released in 1961. He wrote the screenplay for the film The Left Handed Gun (1958) directed by Arthur Penn and starring Paul Newman. Other films which Stevens produced, and directed and wrote included Hero's Island (1962) starring James Mason, and Private Property (1960) starring Corey Allen, Warren Oates and his then-wife Kate Manx. He also directed the feature film Incubus (1966), which was filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto.

Through Daystar Productions, Stevens created the television series Stoney Burke, followed by The Outer Limits which he supervised as executive producer and wrote or directed a handful of episodes, including the pilot The Galaxy Being in which Stevens supplied the voice of the extraterrestrial.

Stevens was writer, director and executive producer of the pilot film and major episodes of It Takes a Thief and McCloud and wrote and produced installments for the series The Invisible Man and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (which he co-developed with Glen A. Larson). He also produced the first-season Tony Franciosa episodes of The Name of the Game and the short-lived 1972–73 NBC science fiction series Search. Although only credited as supervising producer of "Saga of a Star-World" (the 1978 pilot episode of the Larson-produced Battlestar Galactica), director Alan J. Levi has alleged that "Stevens wrote the original script. Leslie was one of my best friends. I do know that Leslie had told me at one time way before he ever got into the script that he had this great idea for a script that he was going to take to Glen Larson and talk about."

Stevens also wrote for the revival show of The Outer Limits between 1996 and 1997.

Stevens's contributions to the New Age Movement, and its relationships to The Outer Limits are discussed in the book Taoism for Dummies (John Wiley and Sons Canada, 2013).

Stevens died from complications of an emergency angioplasty in 1998 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 74.