---
name: "Jeremy Leven"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeremy-leven"
fi1m_id: "jeremy-leven"
imdb_id: "nm0505230"
tmdb_id: 25210
wikidata_id: "Q503907"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "16 August 1941"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T11:36:08.275987+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."
---

# Jeremy Leven

## Identity

Jeremy Leven

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeremy-leven
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeremy-leven
- **IMDb ID:** nm0505230
- **TMDB ID:** 25210
- **Wikidata ID:** Q503907
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Leven, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505230/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25210

Writer. Born 16 August 1941 in South Bend, Indiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 16 August 1941, South Bend, Indiana, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Leven, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505230/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25210

## Biography

Jeremy Leven (born 16 August 1941) is an American screenwriter, director, producer and novelist.

Born in South Bend, Indiana, he was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Harvard University, the University of Connecticut and Yale University Medical School. While at Harvard he founded the satirical revue *The Proposition*, which ran for ten years in Cambridge, Massachusetts and off-Broadway.

Leven wrote the screenplays for *Don Juan DeMarco* (1994), which he also directed, *The Legend of Bagger Vance* (2000), *Alex & Emma* (2003) and *The Notebook* (2004). He also wrote the story for *Real Steel* (2011) and the screenplay for *My Sister's Keeper* (2009). His novels include *Creator* (1980), adapted as a film in 1985, and *Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S.* (1982), filmed as *Crazy as Hell* (2002).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Notebook* (2004), Fi1m 74, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-notebook.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Girl on a Bicycle* (2013), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Wer's glaubt wird selig* (2012), Screenplay
- *Real Steel* (2011), Story
- *My Sister's Keeper* (2009), Screenplay
- *The Notebook* (2004), Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-notebook.md)
- *Alex & Emma* (2003), Writer, Producer
- *Crazy As Hell* (2002), Screenplay
- *The Legend of Bagger Vance* (2000), Screenplay
- *Don Juan DeMarco* (1994), Director, Screenplay
- *Playing for Keeps* (1986), Writer
- *Creator* (1985), Novel, Screenplay

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