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Richard Levinson (August 7, 1934 – March 12, 1987) was an American writer and producer who often worked in collaboration with William Link.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Levinson, 52, Writer of Television Mystery Series )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Museum of Broadcast Communications )〕 ==Life and career== Levinson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics in 1956. He served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958 and married actress Rosanna Huffman in 1969. Levinson had a Jewish heritage.〔http://www.jewishjournal.com/television/article/columbo_creator_solves_his_own_family_mystery_20110222 an article about Link "His whole life had been spent as a non-Jew, while everyone in his life — his best friend and writing partner (Levinson), his wife, most of his professional colleagues and associates — all were Jewish (such as Falk). Yet, a few weeks before we met, Link had discovered that he was, in fact, Jewish (too).〕 William Link and Richard Levinson began a 43-year-long friendship in 1946, on their first day of junior high school. Both were avid Ellery Queen fans from boyhood and enjoyed mental puzzles and challenges, a characteristic that would spill over into their work. Beginning with radio scripts, the team wrote plays and then prime-time TV scripts. They went on to co-create and sometimes produce the detective television series ''Columbo'', ''Mannix'', ''Ellery Queen'', ''Murder, She Wrote'' (with Peter S. Fischer) and ''Scene of the Crime'', as well as made-for-TV movies ''The Gun'', ''My Sweet Charlie'', ''That Certain Summer'', ''The Judge and Jake Wyler'', ''The Execution of Private Slovik'', ''Charlie Cobb: A Nice Night for a Hanging'', ''Rehearsal for Murder'', and the short-lived TV series ''Blacke's Magic''. The team were proud of creating "intelligent" rather than violent programs.〔"Interview with screen writer William Link" from disk 6, Ellery Queen Mysteries, DVD release September 2010.)〕 The partners also collaborated on two feature films, ''The Hindenburg'' (1975) and ''Rollercoaster'' (1977), and the Broadway show ''Merlin,'' featuring the magician Doug Henning. The team occasionally used the pseudonym ''Ted Leighton'', most notably on the telefilm ''Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You'', where their work was substantially re-written by other hands, and Columbo when they came up with stories to be scripted by their collaborators. In 1979, Levinson and Link received a Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for their work on ''Ellery Queen'' and ''Columbo''. During the 1980s, they were three-time winners of the Edgar for Best TV Feature or MiniSeries Teleplay, and in 1989 they were given the MWA's Ellery Queen Award, which honors outstanding mystery-writing teams. In November 1995 they were jointly elected to the Television Academy Hall of Fame. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Levinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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