- Film and theater critic for New York station WNBC-TV (Channel 4), 1992-1993 and 1996-present; was previously film critic for WPIX (Channel 11) from 1970 to 1991, and for CBS Radio from 1975 to 1993.
- Son of columnist Leonard Lyons
- He attended the Julliard School of Music.
- He studied bullfighting in Spain
- He trained with the New York Giants,
- Lyons studied acting with Lee Strasberg.
- Married and lives with his wife and children in New York.
- Father of Ben Lyons, Film Critic for the E! Channel's "Daily 10" program.
- Co-host of Saturday morning talk show, Reel Talk (2005). (July 2006)
- His godfather was the playwright Sidney Kingsley and his godmother was the actress Madge Evans.
- He studied bullfighting in Spain, touring for seven summers with Antonio Ordonez, first arranged by Ernest Hemingway shortly before Hemingway's death in 1961.
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