Ted Levine

Ted Levine
Ted Levine, December 2008
Born	Frank Theodore Levine May 29, 1957 (1957-05-29) Bellaire, Ohio, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Kim Phillips (2 children)

Frank Theodore "Ted" Levine (born May 29, 1957) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs and Captain Leland Stottlemeyer in the television series Monk.

Early life and career

Levine was born in Bellaire, Ohio, in 1957. He was born to Milton and Charlotte Levine, who were both doctors and members of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Levine is of Russian, Jewish, Native American and Welsh heritage and has described himself as a "hillbilly Jew". In 1975, he enrolled at Marlboro College and then later University of Chicago. He became a fixture in the Chicago theatre scene and joined the Remains Theatre which was co-founded by Gary Cole and William L. Petersen. After his stage experience, Levine began to devote most of his energy during the 1980s toward finding roles in film and television such as a minor part in Charlie's Angels. He also managed to get a minor role in Rambo: First Blood Part II, as one of the men getting the P.O.W.s off the helicopter.

Mainstream success

After his breakout role in The Silence of the Lambs (as primary antagonist Buffalo Bill), there was a period where he was typecast in villainous roles. Levine was able to remedy this by playing more positive characters, such as a member of Al Pacino's police unit in Heat, astronaut Alan Shepard in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, and Paul Walker's police superior Sergeant Tanner in The Fast and the Furious. In the drama Georgia, he played Mare Winningham's husband, one of his most sympathetic roles. His résumé also includes an uncredited role as the voice of the sociopathic trucker "Rusty Nail" in 2001's Joy Ride, and his performance as Detective Sam Nico in the 2003 film Wonderland, based on the gruesome murders in the Hollywood Hills. From 2002 to 2009, he co-starred as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on USA Network's detective series Monk, starring Tony Shalhoub.

Levine provided the voice of the supervillain Sinestro in Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited. Levine also appeared as a patriarch whose family takes a turn for the worse in the remake of The Hills Have Eyes (2006). In 2007, he portrayed local Sheriff James Timberlake in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and appeared in Ridley Scott's American Gangster, alongside Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Most recently, he was cast as the warden of the island prison in Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

In a January 12, 2006, interview on The Late Late Show, actor Seth Green credited Levine's portrayal of Buffalo Bill as the inspiration for the voice of his character Chris Griffin on Family Guy.

Filmography

Movies

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1983	Through Naked Eyes	Patrolman	television film
1985	Two Fathers' Justice	Bennett	television film
1986	One More Saturday Night	Cop in Station
	Crime Story	Frank Holman	television film
1987	Ironweed	Pocono Pete
1988	Betrayed	Wes
1989	The Fulfillment of Mary Gray	Jonathan	television film
	Next of Kin	Willy Simpson
1990	Love at Large	Frederick King/James McGraw
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb
	Murder in High Places	Carson Russell	television film
	Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace	Charles Rose	television film
1992	The Paint Job	Kenny the D.J.
1993	Nowhere to Run	Mr. Dunston
	Death Train	Alex Tierney	television film
	The Last Outlaw	Potts	television film
	Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back	Gary Ward	television film
1994	Todo cambia	Vince
1995	The Mangler	Officer John Hunton
	Georgia	Jake
	Heat	Bosko
1996	Bullet	Louis Stein
	Wiseguy	Paul Callendar	television film
1997	Mad City	Lemke
	Switchback	Deputy Nate Booker
	Flubber	Wesson
	Ellen Foster	Bill Hammond	television film
1998	You Can Thank Me Later	Eli Cooperberg
	Moby Dick	Starbuck	television film
1999	Wild Wild West	General 'Bloodbath' McGrath
2000	Harlan County War	Silas Kincaid	television film
2001	Evolution	General Russell Woodman
	The Fast and the Furious	Sgt. Tanner
	Joy Ride	Rusty Nail	Voice
	Ali	Joe Smiley
2002	The Truth About Charlie	Emil Zadapec
2003	Wonderland	Sam Nico
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Colonel Howard
	Birth	Mr. Conte
2005	The L.A. Riot Spectacular	Tom Saltine
	Memoirs of a Geisha	Colonel Derricks
2006	The Hills Have Eyes	Big Bob Carter
2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Sheriff Timberlake
	American Gangster	Lou Toback
2010	Shutter Island	Warden

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1985	American Playhouse	Policeman	Episode: The Killing Floor
1986 - 1987	Crime Story	Frank Holman	13 Episodes
1995	Nowhere Man	Dave 'Eddie' Powers	2 Episodes (Voice)
1997, 1999	Superman: The Animated Series	Karkull, Sinestro	Episodes: "Absolute Zero", "In Brightest Day"
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Alan Shepard	2 Episodes
2000	Wonderland	Dr. Robert Banger	8 Episodes
2002	Third Watch	Brian O’Malley	Episode: Falling
2002 - 2006	Justice League	Bulldozer, Sinestro	6 Episodes (Voice)
2002 - 2009	Monk	Captain Leland Stottlemeyer	125 Episodes
2004	Static Shock	Sinestro	Episode: Fallen Hero
2011	Hell on Wheels	Daniel Johnson	Recurring

External links

• Ted Levine at the Internet Movie Database