1996 | Produced and wrote the syndicated TV-movie "Tarzan's Return" |
1994 | Produced and wrote the family comedy feature "Gordy" |
| Was a program consultant on Showtime's new version of "The Outer Limits" |
1991 | Wrote the film "Return to the Blue Lagoon" |
1991 | Established the Leslie Stevens Fellowships for Television Writing to encourage new talent |
1988 | Was supervising producer on NBC's action adventure series "The Highwayman" |
1984 | Wrote the jungle queen film "Sheena" starring Tanya Roberts |
1980 | Formed Empress Productions with Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere, producing plays for the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC |
1979 | Wrote the film "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" and acted as supervising producer on the 1979-1980 NBC TV series |
| Was surpervising producer on the ABC sci-fi adventure series "Battlestar Galactica" |
1977 | Produced and wrote the mystery TV-movie "Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?" (NBC) |
1976 | Produced and wrote the TV-movie "The Gemini Man" (NBC) and its subsequent sci-fi adventure series |
1972 | Produced and wrote the NBC movie "Search" and its subsequent series |
| Produced and wrote NBC's "McCloud" starring Dennis Weaver |
| Produced and wrote "Name of the Game" (NBC), a crime-drama series with Gene Barry and Tony Franciosa |
| Produced and wrote the Robert Wagner adventure series "It Takes A Thief" (ABC) |
1965 | Directed and wrote the horror film "Incubus", featuring Esperanto dialogue |
| Co-created, directed, wrote and produced the sci-fi anthology TV series "The Outer Limits" (ABC) |
1962 | Wrote the action film "Heroes Island" starring James Mason |
1962 | Worked as executive producer on the NBC Western "The Virginian" |
1960 | Adapted his play "Marriage-Go-Round" into a film starring Susan Hayward and James Mason |
1958 | Wrote the Paul Newman Western drama "The Left-Handed Gun" |
1958 | Wrote, co-produced and directed his first film "Private Property"; met his first wife Kate Manx |
1958 | Had a successful Broadway run with the romantic comedy "Marriage-Go-Round", starring Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert |
1953 | Had his Off-Broadway debut with "Bullfight" |
| Studied at Yale Drama School and the American Theatre Wing after World War II |
1942 | Joined the US Air Corps and served as an officer |
1939 | Won a high school playwriting contest earning a ticket to Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre; sold Welles his play "The Mechanical Rat" at age 15 |
