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 and her then-husband, Alexander Kirkland. His father was film director Otto Preminger. He was the only nephew of actress June Havoc, 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 New York Times movie listing for Erik Lee Preminger Review of Gypsy Rose Lee's Home Movies Erik'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