‘LOVE TAKES WING’
PRODUCTION BIOS
LARRY LEVINSON (Executive Producer) – Larry Levinson has extensive credits as an executive producer, including the telefilm "Johnson County War" and blockbuster miniseries "Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo" and "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk." His Hallmark Channel productions include "The Last Cowboy," “Straight From the Heart,” “Love Comes Softly,” “Audrey’s Rain,” "The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay,” “Hard Ground,” “A Time to Remember,” “Just Desserts,” “A Place Called Home,” “The Long Shot (Believe in Courage),” “Life on Liberty Street,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “The Trail to Hope Rose,” “The Reading Room,” “Our House,” “Where There’s A Will,” “Love’s Enduring Promise,” “Out of the Woods,” “Thicker Than Water,” and the Hallmark Channel Mystery Movie franchises “Jane Doe,” “Mystery Woman, “McBride” and “Murder 101.”
Levinson also executive produced "Mark Twain's Roughing It," "Everything That Rises" with Dennis Quaid, "Rough Riders" with Tom Berenger, and a series of "Hard Time" telefilms starring Burt Reynolds as detective Logan McQueen. Previously, Levinson was supervising producer for the Kenny Rogers' telefilms "MacShayne: The Final Roll of the Dice" and "MacShayne: Winner Takes All." He was also an executive producer on Hallmark Channel’s highest-rated original movie ever, “The Christmas Card.”
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LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS (Director) – Lou Diamond Phillips’s versatile career has brought him success in feature films, television and theater as an actor, director and writer.
Phillips earned a Tony nomination for Best Actor for his performance as the King of Siam in the Broadway production of Roger & Hammerstein’s The King and I, which received a total of six Tony nominations. His extensive theater credits also include: A Hateful of Rain, Whose Life is it Anyway?, P.S. Your Cat is Dead, The Lady’s Not for Burning, Doctor Faustus, and Hamlet.
Most recently Phillips is featured in the upcoming Steven Soderbergh film, “CHE,” which co-stars Benicio Del Toro and Benjamin Bratt and is scheduled to be released in late 2008. In addition, Phillips stars in the upcoming feature “The Invited,” to be directed by Ryan McKinney. He has appeared in “Supernova” in which he co-starred with Angela Bassett and James Spader. He has been featured in the Alfonso Arau-directed “Picking up the Pieces,” starring Woody Allen and Sharon Stone; the psychological thriller “Hangman” with Mäden Amick; “A Better Way to Die” with André Braugher and “Bats,” a thriller directed by Louis Morneau for Destination Films. Prior, he appeared in the Hallmark Channel’s “A Trail to Hope Rose” and starred in the independent feature “El Cortez.” Recently, he has had a reoccurring role on the CBS series “Numb3rs” and has been seen costarring in the TNT mini-series by Dean Devlin “The Triangle.”
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Phillips was also featured in “Gone but not Forgotten,” a mini-series for Hallmark co-starring Brooke Shields. Phillips was also seen in the Turner Original film “Red Water” as well as the Ron Shelton-directed “Hollywood Homicide,” starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett. In the fall of 2001, he appeared on the CBS series “Wolf Lake.”
Phillips also directed and starred in “Sioux City” for Cabin Fever Entertainment. In the film, he plays a Native American man who was adopted as a child by a Jewish Family and raised in Los Angeles. His desire to find his roots takes him back to the reservation where he discovers that his birth mother has died under suspicious circumstances. The film received strong critical notices and firmly established Phillips as a feature film director. He plans to continue directing feature films.
Phillips starred in the critically-acclaimed original Showtime film “In a Class of His Own.” In this true story, he plays a well-loved high school janitor who must pass the GED or be fired from his job. Phillips also co-starred with Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Sabato, Jr. as the temperamental, flamboyant hitman in the action-thriller “The Big Hit.” He then had a critically-acclaimed uncredited cameo in the Larry Parker-directed “Another Day in Paradise,” which starred Melanie Griffith and James Woods. He also appeared in the 20th Century Fox release “Brokedown Palace,” starring Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale.
Phillips co-starred in Ed Zwick’s critically acclaimed military drama “Courage Under Fire” opposite Meg Ryan, Denzel Washington, and Matt Damon. He received the Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Monfriez, the headstrong and determined army gunner desperate to protect his honor.
Philips first gained widespread attention starring as Richie Valens in “La Bamba” and solidified his reputation in “Stand and Deliver,” for which he received a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe nomination and a Best Supporting Actor Independent Spirit Award. He has also starred in such films as “Young Guns I” and “Young Guns II,” “Disorganized Crime,” “Renegades,” “The First Power,” and “Shadow of the Wolf.” For Miramax’s “Ambition,” Philips both wrote and starred in the film. Phillips made his directorial debut with “Dangerous Touch,” a psychological thriller he co-wrote which was distributed by Trimark Pictures and HBO in association with Phillips’ own production company Facet Films.
Born and raised in Arlington, Texas, Phillips began acting in the sixth grade and became actively involved in the Dallas/Fort Worth theater and film scene. His early film roles included the Texas-made “Angel Alley,” “Interface”, “Trespasses,” and “Harley.”
Today, Phillips enjoys teaching film technique and drama. He is a guest lecturer on acting at the American Film Institute and hopes to continue his teaching efforts by opening an extension of the Film Actor’s Lab Los Angeles in the near future.
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Phillips resides in the Los Angeles area with his four daughters.
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RACHEL STUHLER (Writer) – Rachel Stuhler has served as script supervisor on more than two dozen TV projects, including the Hallmark Channel Original Movies “Avenging Angel,” “Love’s Unending Legacy,” “McBride: Dogged,” “Desolation Canyon,” “Love’s Long Journey,” “Wedding Daze” and “McBride: Semper Fi.” She has also served as first assistant director on “Rising Shores” and “Callback.” “Love Takes Wing” is her second TV movie script to be produced, along with “The Deadliest Lesson,” starring Yancey Arias.
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