After a forty-year career on TV and radio in New York and nationally, Jeffrey Lyons has just published his fifth and sixth books. Besides co-authoring "Catching Heat, The Jim Leyritz Story" about the former Yankee World Series hero, he's written "Stories My Father Told Me, Notes From the Lyons Den", the book about his father's famous Broadway column and the incredible array of luminaries he knew. It's received rave reviews, including one from the always-difficult-to-please Wall Street Journal, which gave it a full-page endorsement! He's just begun a national book sining tour.

Jeffrey Lyons joined NBC4 in October 1996 as a film and theater critic and remained there for 13 years during which he became one of the most visible movie and theater critics in America. He filed reports or NewsChannel4 seven days a week, primarily on Live at Five and various weekend newscasts before NBC began sending his reviews to its network affiliates a well. He's reviewed some 15,000 movies, more than anyone in any medium. He created and co-hosted REEL TALK the top-rated movie show on TV, aired 154 NBC stations. In 1982, he beat out 300 other aspirants to land one of the co-hosting seats on PBS series Sneak Previews, which he helped make a ratings winner for 12 seasons.

Then he joined NBC.

Since he began his career at New York's WPIX-TV in 1970, he's interviewed nearly every major movie and Broadway star over the past four decades. He contributed film reviews to NBC4, 1992-93, on TODAY in New York, was the film and theater critic for ABC World News Now on the ABC-TV network, 1994-96. From 1989-1994, Lyons was entertainment editor for CNBC. He reviewed for WPIX TV-New York, WFSB-TV/Hartford, WMARTV/Baltimore; CBS Radio; CBC Canada. Inside Edition and A&E Review. His books include Curveballs and Screwballs March 2001; Jeffrey Lyons' 101 Great Movies for Kids, published by Simon & Schuster, 1996; and he co-authored, with his brother, Out of Leftfield: Over 1,134 Newly Discovered Amazing Baseball Records, Connections, Coincidences and More, published by Times Books/Random House, 1998, Curveballs and Screwballs and Off the Wall.

He's written a World Series trivia quiz for PARADE, been the film critic for Video Review and Rock magazines, and served on the Metropolitan Desk of The New York Times. Lyons also has acted in several motion pictures including The French Connection and Death Trap and the TV series Wise Guy, always portraying himself.

Jeffrey is the son of Leonard Lyons, the legendary Broadway columnist whose "The Lyons Den" in the New York Post from 1934-74 was a New York institution read in 106 papers world-wide. Family friends included Ernest Hemingway, Adlai Stevenson, Marlena Dietrich, Ira Gershwyn, Orson Welles, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Burton, Milton Berle, Sofia Loren, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe and nearly every newsworthy person of those years. He's continued the "family tradition" by interviewing hundreds of stars in one-on one, on-his-set encounters since 1970. These exclusive, one-on-one interviews include nearly all of today's biggest stars.

His son Ben Lyons is the popular film critic/interviewer for the E! Networks and with his father, co-hosted "MSNBC's At The Movies". Lyons studied acting with Lee Strasberg, attended the Julliard School of Music, trained with the New York Giants, and has been a guest play-by-play announcer for the Boston Red Sox Radio Network, both in English and Spanish. He toured Spain for ten summers with Antonio Ordoñez, the greatest matador of the XX century, arranged through their mutual friend Ernest Hemingway, and has just sold his newest book, "Stories My Father Told Me: Notes From 'The Lyons Den.'" A huge compendium of anecdotes from his father's iconic Broadway column and his own interviews conducted over the past four decades.

Jeffrey has run with the bulls in Pamplona, kicked field goals with the N.Y. Giants at their training camp for three seasons, was Truman's guest at the White House, Hemingway's guest in Cuba, lecture on baseball at the Smithsonian Institute and the Baseball Hall of Fame, been a guest broadcaster for Boston Red Sox radio in English and Spanish, studied acting with the great Lee Strasberg (Marilyn Monroe and Paul Newman's teacher), sang in the Boys' Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, and has been a sports writer and reporter in addition to a movie and Broadway critic.

In November, 2010, he was a Visiting Scholar at East Carolina University, lecturing to hundreds of students about his days on TV, interviewing techniques, how to do research for interviewing stars, and stories on the incredible people he's known in his life. He's given similar lectures for three decades all over the country to civic, religious and educational groups.

In May 2000, he gave the commencement speech and received an honorary degree from Hofstra University. In May, 2002 he gave the commencement speech and received another honorary degree from St. Mary's College.