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Biography. Ralph Levy was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He directed episodes of several television shows, including I Love Lucy, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Trapper John, M.D. and Hawaii Five-O. He also served as producer/director of The Ed Wynn Show, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and The Jack Benny Program.
- Miranda Speranza Masocco Levy
- October 15, 2001 (aged 80), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- December 18, 1920, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Ralph Levy, TV pioneer and two-time Emmy winning director, is remembered by TV historians as the man who directed the original ‘I Love Lucy’ pilot in March, 1951, which made his passing on the date of Lucy’s 50th Anniversary, all the more poignant. Born into a family of Philadelphia lawyers, Ralph was stage-struck from an early age.
Oct 20, 2001 · Levy, the director of such in-the-beginning television series as “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” and “The Jack Benny Show,” died Monday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 81. He ...
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The bittersweet bookends of TV director Ralph Levy's long career are as follows. On October 15, 1951, he guided the pilot episode of one of the most celebrated of all sitcoms, "I Love Lucy."
Ralph Levy. Director: The Jack Benny Program. Ralph Levy was born on 18 December 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Jack Benny Program (1950), The Alan Young Show (1950) and Shower of Stars (1954).
- Director, Producer
- December 18, 1919
- Ralph Levy
- October 15, 2001
Credits (text only) Hide Director (46 credits) 1990 I Love Lucy: The Very First Show (TV Movie) (original pilot) 1978-1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (4 episodes) - Clash of Shadows (1980)
Ralph Levy is known as an Director. Some of his work includes I Love Lucy, Hawaii Five-O, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Trapper John, M.D., The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, and The Pruitts of Southampton.
