Lev Mailer Dies: Former SAG Vice President Was 88
deadline.comLev Mailer, former 11th vice president of the Screen Actors Guild, has died at 88. He died Feb. 24 of a bacterial infection at Methodist Hospital in St.
Louis Park, Minnesota. Mailer, who served on SAG’s national board in the 1990s, chaired the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory for 10 years.“He was a union man,” his wife Paula told Deadline. “He loved the Screen Actors Guild and he loved actors.
He really cared that they were recognized and that they were given their fair share.”A framed poster celebrating SAG’s 50th anniversary still hangs in their living room in Edina, MN. “We had it in our townhouse in Studio City, and we brought it with us when we moved here in 2000,” Paula recalled. “He was very proud of SAG.
He really believed in the union and in justice for actors. He was really driven about it. He thought it was a wonderful union.”Mailer worked for more than 35 years as an actor and voice artist in film, theater, television and commercials in Hollywood and New York.
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