Career
Born in Liverpool, Lev started acting at the age of 16, playing David Bowen in the National Broadcasting Company made-for-television film The Day After Tomorrow (1975) and Dandy Dan in the Alan Parker musical film Bugsy Malone (1976). He then left acting and worked as a designer. Lev was a former director of Action for Master of Engineering, a self-help group for sufferers, as he was, of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
He committed suicide on 11 March 1992 in Ealing, London at the age of 32.