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class of 1952
inducted in 1981
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William Link
Emmy Award-Winning Writer
& Producer
Both Link and Levinson are 1952
graduates. The award-winning writing team emerged in seventh grade at Elkins
Park Jr. High School. They began by writing and producing home radio shows
and having classmates do the acting. While at CHS they collaborated with
several students to present the original musical Election Time. While
attending the University of Pennsylvania they sold their first short story
(written as seniors at CHS) to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and have been
successfully creative through the years.
Both men served in the Army af ter
graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956. While in the Army, they
collaborated by mail. They won their first Emmy in 1970 for outstanding
achievement in drama for their film My Sweet Charlie. In 1972 the Link and
Levinson team won ten Emmys for Columbo, which they
created and produced.
Their awards are voluminous and impressive, including, among others: the
Golden Gate Award for The Execution of Private Sloviak,
the NAACP Image Award, two Golden Globe Awards for Columbo
and That Certain Summer and the Motion Picture Council Award for The Gun. All
together, Link and Levinson have written and produced over twenty motion
pictures, more than one-hundred TV dramas and published over thirty short
stories.
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