Ted Levine
Ted Levine (born May 29, 1957 in Bellaire , Belmont County , Ohio , own Frank Theodore Levine ) is an American film and television actor who mainly works as a supporting actor in films and series. In the German-speaking world, he is best known for his role as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer in the television series Monk and as the serial killer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs .
biography
Levine was born in Bellaire on May 29, 1957 . His father, Milton Dmitri Levine, was Russian-Jewish and his mother, Charlotte Virginia Levine (née Clark), was of Welsh descent. He attended elementary school in Bellaire and later the alternative Marlboro College in Marlboro , Vermont . He first played in theaters in Vermont, Michigan and Chicago in the early 1980s , where he received a Masters of Fine Arts from university . He now works mainly for film and television. In the 1980s he worked, among other things, in the series Crime Story . However, he did not gain worldwide attention until 1991 as the serial killer Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb in the thriller The Silence of the Lambs . Levine did not want to be tied to the role of a psychopath and in the following years played less abysmal characters: military men, police officers or family men. In 1998 he appeared with Patrick Stewart in the two-part television adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick . From 2002 to 2009 he took on the role of Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on the side of Tony Shalhoub in the series Monk .
Ted Levine is married with two children.
Filmography (selection)
- 1983: The Blood Witness ( Through Naked Eyes , TV movie)
- 1986: Crime Story
- 1988 Verraten (Betrayed)
- 1989: Call for Retribution (Next of Kin)
- 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (The Silence of the Lambs)
- 1993: Death Train
- 1993: Nowhere to Run (Nowhere to Run)
- 1994: The Mangler
- 1994: The Last Outlaw
- 1995: Heat
- 1995: Georgia
- 1996: Bullet - an eye for an eye (Bullet)
- 1997: Mad City
- 1997: Flubber
- 1997: Switchback - Merciless Escape (Switchback)
- 1998: You Can Thank Me Later - Painful Truths
- 1998: Moby Dick
- 1999: Wild Wild West
- 2000: Time of Justice (Harlan County War)
- 2000: Wonderland (TV series)
- 2001: evolution
- 2001: Ali
- 2001: The Fast and the Furious
- 2001: Joyride - joyride ( Joyride , voice)
- 2002: The Truth About Charlie
- 2002–2009: Monk (TV series)
- 2003: Wonderland
- 2004: The Manchurian Candidate (The Manchurian Candidate)
- 2004: Birth
- 2005: The Geisha (Memoirs of a Geisha)
- 2006: The Hills Have Eyes (The Hills Have Eyes)
- 2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
- 2007: American Gangster
- 2010: Shutter Island
- 2011: Hell on Wheels (TV series, 1 episode)
- 2012: Luck (TV series, 5 episodes)
- 2013: Effed (short film)
- 2013: A Single Shot - Fatal Error (A Single Shot)
- 2013: Hunting Season (Deep Dark Canyon)
- 2013: Banshee Chapter
- 2013–2014: The Bridge - America ( The Bridge , TV series, 26 episodes)
- 2014: Tommy Benjamin
- 2014: Big Game - The Hunt Begins (Big Game)
- 2014: Gutshot straight-Merciless game
- 2015: Little Boy
- 2015: Junikäfer, flieg (Child of Grace)
- 2016: Mad Dogs (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2016: Bleed for This
- 2016: Lethal Weapon (TV series, episode 1x03)
- 2018: The encirclement (The Alienist)
- 2018: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- 2019: The Report
Web links
- Ted Levine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Levine, Ted |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levine, Frank Theodore |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and television actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bellaire , Ohio , USA |