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David A. Levinson. Born. United States. Alma mater. Emerson College. Occupation. Television writer. David A. Levinson is an American television and soap opera writer, originally from Falmouth, Massachusetts. He is a 1997 graduate of Emerson College in Boston.
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David was born in 1962 and at the age of five, he was highly intelligent to the point of correctly multiplying the sales tax from buying groceries at a local grocery store. At eight-years-old, David was taught by his father Julius to play chess in which he regularly beat him, much to Julius' consternation. David would eventually excel in academics in which he became a National Merit Finalist and was among the 1% of students who got a perfect ACT score. At sixteen-years-old David graduated ear...
War of 1996
On July 2, 1996, David was summoned by his boss Marty Gilbert to Compact Cable to help solve an unknown interference that has been disrupting television and satellite transmissions across the entire northern hemisphere. He discovered a signal embedded into the satellite feed which David was able to decode the signal and learned that it was recycling itself to nothing. By the time David had decoded the signal, he was then brought to attention by news reports of unknown objects entering over Ea...
Post-War
Following the war, David worked at Area 51 and became a foremost expert on alien technology. A year later, David became concerned that Area 51 was too limited to carry out the necessary research and application of alien technology massively gained from the War of 1996, and as well the likelihood that the aliens may have sent a distress signal which signifies a possible return of more alien forces. He then proposed to Whitmore the creation of an international agency suitable to this task. Whit...
Independence Day/novel (first appearance)Independence Day: Resurgence/novelDavid was portrayed suffering from air sickness while riding Air Force One. In previous film roles, Jeff Goldblum has played characters with various sicknesses, e.g. sea sickness in The Right Stuff...Jeff Goldblum uses one of his lines, "Must go faster, must go faster!" from Jurassic Park, during the escape from the mothership. This was at the request of director Roland Emmerich, who wanted a s...- 3 min
At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day.
David Levinson was born on 4 August 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Nikita (2010), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) and Standoff (2006). He was married to Jan Shutan.
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- August 4, 1939
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- November 4, 2019
Levinson, David A. Abstract This book is an outgrowth of courses taught at Stanford University and at UCLA, and of the author's professional activities in the field of spacecraft dynamics.
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David Levinson is the one of the main protagonists of Independence Day. He plays a key role in saving the world first by warning the president of the alien attack countdown and then by uploading a computer virus into the mothership disabling the aliens' shields. He returned in the 2016 sequel Independence Day: Resurgence as one of the two main ...
David Levinson : [in Elvis voice] Oh, thank you very much. [in his own voice] David Levinson : Oh, I love you man! Julius Levinson : Hey, hey, hey, don't you tell him to shut up! You'd all be dead now if it weren't for my David! None of you did anything to prevent this! Gen. Gray : There was nothing we could do! We were totally unprepared for...
