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Oct 30, 1992 · David P. Lewis, who took a handful of actors, a $300-per-episode budget and a plot line from his own saccharine novel and melded them into television’s first soap opera, is dead.
David P. Lewis (born David Peter Lewis; May 18, [citation needed] 1820 – July 3, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who served as the 23rd governor of Alabama from 1872 to 1874 during the Reconstruction era.
David P. Lewis is a Senior Policy Advisor for the Bureau of Justice Assistance responsible for a number of successful justice information sharing projects like the, the National Motor Vehicle...
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David P. Lewis was born on 12 March 1909 in Illinois, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Faraway Hill (1946), Death Ship (1980) and Planet of the Apes (1974). He was married to Dorothy. He died on 25 October 1992 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Writer, Director
- March 12, 1909
- David P. Lewis
- October 25, 1992
Mr. David P. Lewis is Chairman of Tax Foundation’s Board of Directors. Mr. Lewis is also Managing Director, President, and Chief Executive Office at DPL Advisory & Investments, LLC.
TV pioneer started out in advertising and went on to write, produce and direct early TV soap operas. An early Lewis credit was "Stories in One Camera," a 1946 pilot for the Dumont network which proposed a series of one-act plays presented in a simplistic style utilizing just one TV camera.
