---
name: "Frederic Lebow"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/fredric-lebow"
fi1m_id: "fredric-lebow"
imdb_id: "nm0495863"
tmdb_id: 18310
wikidata_id: "Q5497083"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "9 July 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T22:54:06.329204+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frederic Lebow

## Identity

Frederic Lebow

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fredric-lebow
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** fredric-lebow
- **IMDb ID:** nm0495863
- **TMDB ID:** 18310
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5497083
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Lebow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497083, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495863/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18310

Writer. Born 9 July 1956.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 9 July 1956
- **Also known as:** Fredric LeBow, Fred Lebow
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Lebow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497083, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495863/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18310

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*While You Were Sleeping*](https://film.one/film/while-you-were-sleeping.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Frederic Lebow is an American screenwriter. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1995 romantic comedy *While You Were Sleeping* with his longtime collaborator Daniel G. Sullivan.

Lebow earned a BA in Political Science from Hofstra University in 1978 and an MFA from New York University. He contributed to the television series *Anything for Money* (1985) and had a minor acting role in the film *Chopper Chicks in Zombietown* (1989). He resides in Long Island, New York.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, latimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *While You Were Sleeping* (1995), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/while-you-were-sleeping.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *While You Were Sleeping* (1995), Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/while-you-were-sleeping.md)
- *Chopper Chicks in Zombietown* (1989), as Sideburns

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