Trivia

He was the "script boy" for The Arizona Ranger (1948), a film starring father-and-son actors Jack Holt and Tim Holt. In 1957 Laven convinced his old friend Tim, who had retired from Hollywood five years earlier and was living on his Oklahoma ranch, to return for the leading role in Laven's sci-fi project The Monster That Challenged the World (1957).

Began his career as a mail room messenger at Warner Bros.

Father of Larry Laven.

Father of Barbara Laven.