Alan Landsburg Biography (1933-)

Full name, Alan William Landsburg; born May 10, 1933, in White Plains, NY; son of Harry and Fannie (maiden name, Koslowe) Landsburg; married Sally Breit (divorced, 1975); married Linda Otto (a film producer), March 7, 1976; children (first marriage): Valerie (an actress), Michael. Addresses: Agent: Julian Bach Literary Agency, Inc., 747 Third Ave., New York, NY 10017.

Gender: Male
Occupation: Producer, director, writer
Birth Details: May 10, 1933; White Plains, New York

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Executive Producer
Movies
Certain Honorable Men, 1968
Murder in the First Person Singular, 1974
(With Laurence D. Savadore) Fear on Trial, CBS, 1975
(With Merrill Grant and Don Kirshner) The Savage Bees, NBC, 1976
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, CBS, 1977
It Happened at Lakewood Manor (also known as Ants! and Panic at Lakewood Manor), ABC, 1977
Terror out of the Sky (also known as The Revenge of the SavageBees), CBS, 1978
Ruby and Oswald (also known as Four Days in Dallas), CBS, 1978
(With Grant and Kirshner) The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, NBC,1979
Torn between Two Lovers, 1979
(With Sonny Fox) And Baby Makes Six, NBC, 1979
Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women, CBS, 1979
Baby Comes Home, CBS, 1980
The Jayne Mansfield Story (also known as Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the 50's), 1980
Marathon, CBS, 1980
(With Tom Kuhn) A Long Way Home, ABC, 1981
Bill, CBS, 1981
Mysterious Two, NBC, 1982
Bill: On His Own, CBS, 1983
(With Joan Barnett) Adam, NBC, 1983
(With Barnett) Adam: His Song Continues, NBC, 1986
(With Barnett) The George McKenna Story, CBS, 1986
(With Barnett) Parent Trap II, The Disney Channel, 1986
Strange Voices, NBC, 1987
Long Gone, HBO, 1987
Too Young the Hero, CBS, 1988
A Stoning in Fulham County (also known as The Stoning, The Amish Story, and Incident at Tile Mill Road), NBC, 1988
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story, CBS, 1988
A Place at the Table (also known as The Best Kept Secret, No Child Shall Go Hungry, and A Million Children), NBC, 1988
The Ryan White Story, ABC, 1989
Unspeakable Acts, ABC, 1990
In Defense of a Married Man, ABC, 1990
So Proudly We Hail, 1990
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story, CBS, 1991
A Nightmare in Columbia County, CBS, 1991
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (also known as Shattered Story), 1992
If Someone Had Known, 1995
The Lottery, 1996
Country Justice (also known as Family Rescue), 1997
Also executive producer of Bluegrass.
Television Work
Other; Movies
Producer and director, Black Water Gold, ABC, 1970
Television Executive Producer
Miniseries
The Chisholms, CBS, 1979
Television Producer
Series
(Associate producer) Biography, syndicated, 1962
Men in Crisis, syndicated, 1964
National Geographic Specials, 1965-1970
Television Executive Producer
Series
Time-Life Specials: The March of Time, 1965

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, ABC, 1966
It Was a Very Good Year, ABC, 1971
(With Don Kirshner) The Kids from C.A.P.E.R., NBC, 1976-1977
In Search Of ... , syndicated, 1976-1982
Between the Wars, syndicated, 1978
The Chisholms, CBS, 1980
No Holds Barred, CBS, 1980
(Supervising producer; with Woody Fraser and Merrill Grant) Those Amazing Animals, ABC, 1980-1981
(With Grant) That's Incredible!, ABC, 1980-1984
(With Grant and Fraser) The Krypton Factor (game show), ABC, 1981
The Future: What's Next, CBS, 1982
(With Fraser) People Do the Craziest Things, ABC, 1984
True Confessions, syndicated, 1986
High Risk, CBS, 1988
Also executive producer of The American Idea.
Television Producer
Specials
Mirror, Mirror, off the Wall, NBC, 1969
"A Storm in Summer," Hallmark Hall of Fame, PBS, 1969
Television Executive Producer
Specials
Hollywood: The Selznick Years, 1969
Alaska Wilderness Lake, 1971
(With Laurence D. Savadore) Alan King in Las Vegas, Part I, ABC, 1973
(With Savadore) Alan King in Las Vegas, Part II, ABC, 1973
In Search of Ancient Astronauts, 1973
In Search of Ancient Mysteries, 1975
(With Merrill Grant and David Auerbach) The World's Funniest Commercial Goofs, ABC, 1983 1984
(With Woody Fraser) Life's Most Embarrassing Moments, ABC, 1983
Life's Most Embarrassing Moments II, ABC, 1983
(With Fraser) Life's Most Embarrassing Moments III, ABC, 1984
(With Kay Hoffman and Fraser) Life's Most Embarrassing Moments IV,ABC, 1984
Getting the Last Laugh, ABC, 1985
To Protect the Children, TBS, 1986
Wanted: A Room with Love, syndicated, 1986
Destined to Live: 100 Roads to Recovery, NBC, 1988
Maggie's Secret, CBS, 1990
Also executive producer of ABC Afterschool Special, ABC.
Pilots
Real Life Stories, CBS, 1981
(With Merrill Grant) The Future: What's Next, CBS, 1981
The Mysterious Two, NBC, 1982
(With Woody Fraser) Success: It Can Be Yours, ABC, 1982
(With Mort Lachman and Fraser) It Only Hurts When You Laugh, NBC,1983
(With Fraser) Personal and Confidential, NBC, 1983
(With Fraser) People Do the Craziest Things, ABC, 1984
(With Fraser and Grant) People to People, ABC, 1984
(And creator and director) Under Fire: The Real Story, ABC, 1989
Television Director
Episodic
"Helen Keller," Biography, syndicated, 1962
Men in Crisis, syndicated, 1964
True Confessions, syndicated, 1986
High Risk, CBS, 1988
Also directed episodes of Time-Life Specials: The March of Time.
Film Work
Producer, The Outer Space Connection, 1974
Executive producer, The White Lions, 1981
Executive producer, Burned at the Stake (also known as The Coming), 1981
Co-executive producer, Jaws 3-D (also known as Jaws 3 and Jaws III), Universal, 1983
Co-executive producer, Porky's II: The Next Day, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983
WRITINGS
Television Movies
Black Water Gold, ABC, 1970
Unspeakable Acts, ABC, 1990
With Reason to Suspect, ABC, 1992
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (also known as Shattered Story), 1992
Terror in the Night, 1994
If Someone Had Known, 1995
Television Episodes
True Confessions, syndicated, 1986
Screenplays
Narration only, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1968
Nonfiction
(With Sally Landsburg) In Search of Ancient Mysteries, foreword byRod Serling, Bantam, 1974
(With Landsburg) The Outer Space Connection, photographs by AndrewReichline, Bantam, 1975
In Search of Magic and Witchcraft, foreword by Leonard Nimoy, Bantam, 1977
In Search of Strange Phenomena, foreword by Nimoy, Bantam, 1977
In Search of Myths and Monsters, foreword by Nimoy, Bantam, 1977
In Search of Extraterrestrials, 1977
In Search of ... : Lost Civilizations, Extraterrestrials, Magic and Witchcraft, Strange Phenomena, Myths and Monsters, Doubleday, 1978
(With Edward Garrick) The Insects Are Coming, Warner Books, 1978
Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle, Warner Books, 1978
In Search Of ... , Doubleday, 1978
Landsburg's works have been translated into Spanish and French.

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