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Date of Birth
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15-October-1917
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Place of Birth
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McDonald
(Washington County, Pennsylvania)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Alan Wendell Livingston, Alan Wendell Levison, Alan Livingston
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Profession
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Businessperson, Record producer, Writer, Screenwriter
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Alan Wendell Livingston, born Alan Wendell Levison, was an American businessman best known for his tenures at Capitol Records, first as a writer/producer best known for creating Bozo the Clown for a series of record-album and illustrative read-along children's book sets, then as the executive who signed The Beatles to Capitol in November 1963. In-between, as Vice-President in charge of Programming at NBC, in 1959 he oversaw the development and launch of the network's most successful television series, Bonanza.
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