‘CLASS’

PRODUCTION BIOS

LARRY LEVINSON (Executive Producer) - Larry Levinson has served as executive producer on a wide range of movies, from miniseries to feature films. He has overseen numerous Hallmark Channel Original Movies in every genre, from adventure to drama to romance.

Levinson also executive produced the popular Hallmark Channel Mystery Movie franchises “Jane Doe,” “McBride,” “Mystery Woman” and “Murder 101.”

His film credits include “Larry McMurtry’s Streets of Laredo” and “Larry McMurtry’s Dead Man’s Walk.” He executive produced Burt Reynolds’s “Hard Times” telefilms featuring detective Logan McQueen. He also executive produced, with actor Dennis Quaid, “Everything that Rises” and “Mark Twain’s Roughing It.” With actor Tom Berenger, Levinson executive produced “Rough Riders.”

For the Hallmark Channel, Levinson’s substantial work as executive producer on original films includes “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” and “Thicker Than Water.”

Levinson also served as executive producer on “The Christmas Card” in 2007. The film stands as Hallmark Channel’s highest-rated original movie.

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DAVID S. CASS, SR. (Director) – There are few aspects of filmmaking that David Cass hasn’t been involved with. In a career that has spanned five decades he has acted, directed, produced and written for countless television and motion picture projects, becoming one of the most respected stunt coordinators in the business. Cass’s career began in 1960 as a stunt performer for Robert Shelton on the streets of Old Tucson, a popular location for both tourists and Hollywood production companies. He performed stunts in Sam Peckinpah’s “The Deadly Companions” there in 1961, and was introduced to John Wayne two years later, while the Duke was filming his 1963 western, “McClintock!” prompting a move to Hollywood, where he would continue to double for the likes of Wayne, Robert Mitchum and countless others.

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Cass has acted and performed stunts, eventually becoming a stunt coordinator in the early 80s, for dozens of TV series and feature films, including “Young Billy Young,” “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Rockford Files,” “The Streets of San Francisco,” “Highway to Heaven,” “Kenny Rogers as The Gambler,” “Matt Houston,” “Smokey and The Bandit Part 3,” ”Knight Rider,” and many others, his rugged, gruff appearance continuing to bring the actor roles.

While working stunts for ABC’s popular 1968 series “Here Come the Brides,” Cass got his first directing assignment, shooting 2nd Unit for veteran western director Virgil Vogel. He would continue working 2nd Unit throughout the 70s, eventually helming television projects since the late 90s, including “Hard Time: The Premonition” for Burt Reynolds. He has directed a number of “Mystery Woman” films for Hallmark Channel, including “Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery” in 2006, as well as Hallmark’s 2002 mini-series, “Johnson County War.”

In the past several years, Cass has continued directing many made-for-TV movies, including the Hallmark Channel Original Movies “Avenging Angel,” “Sacrifices of the Heart,” “Murder 101: Locked Room Mystery,” “Mystery Woman: In the Shadows,” “Desolation Canyon,” “Back to You and Me” and March 2009’s “Bound by a Secret.”

Cass is married, lives in Los Angeles, and is the father of David S. Cass, Jr., who has followed in his father’s footsteps as a Hollywood stunt performer and coordinator.

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PAMELA WALLACE (Writer) – Pamela Wallace won an Academy® Award for co-writing the film “Witness,” starring Harrison Ford. She’s written or co-written several telefilms, including the Hallmark Channel Original Movies “Straight From the Heart,” “Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus,” “Meet the Santas” and “Love’s Unending Legacy,” as well as a segment of the award- winning “If These Walls Could Talk,” “Borrowed Hearts” and “A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story.”

Wallace has also published more than 25 novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages, and won several awards.

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