Erik Lee Preminger (born December 11, 1944) is an American writer, actor, and producer.
Early life
Preminger's birth name was Eric Lee Kirkland. His true paternity was not known to him until he was an adult. He was named by his mother
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee (born Rose Louise Hovick, January 8, 1911 – April 26, 1970) was an American burlesque entertainer, stripper and vedette famous for her striptease act. Also an actress, author, and playwright, her 1957 memoir was adapted into ...
and her then-husband, Alexander Kirkland. His father was film director
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger ( , ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor.
He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gai ...
. He was the only nephew of actress
June Havoc
June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick; November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010) was a Canadian American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist.
Havoc was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother Rose Thompson Hovick, ...
, Gypsy Rose Lee's younger sister.
Personal life
He wrote an autobiography about his relationship with his mother: ''Gypsy & Me: At Home and on the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee'' (Little, Brown - 1984, ) which was later re-issued as ''My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage With Gypsy Rose Lee'' ().
In 1967, he married flight attendant Barbara van Nattem, but the marriage ended in divorce.
Filmography
Film
References
External links
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New York Times movie listing for Erik Lee PremingerErik's Gypsy Rose Lee Website
1944 births
Living people
American male film actors
American memoirists
American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Jewish American male actors
Jewish American writers
People from Contra Costa County, California
Writers from New York City
American biographers
21st-century American Jews
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