The principals, Jules V. Levy, Arthur Gardner, and Arnold Laven, met while serving in the Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit during World War II.
[2] Laven produced both films and television shows, and he directed many popular American television shows, including episodes of The A-Team, CHiPs, Mannix, The Big Valley, The Greatest American Hero and Hill Street Blues.
Gardner was an actor prior to World War II, but chose to produce after the company was formed.
[3] Along with Levy, who was a script supervisor prior to the war, Gardner wrote the story for a 1982 movie called Safari 3000.
[4][5] Levy-Gardner-Laven maintains an office in Beverly Hills, but their last production credit was in 1982.