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Ted Levine

Biography

Ted Levine is an American actor who built a stage career in Chicago before moving into film and television. Born in Bellaire, Ohio, and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, he joined the Remains Theatre and became a fixture in the city's theater scene. In the 1980s he began pursuing screen roles, including mob enforcer Frank Holman on the NBC drama Crime Story. His breakout came as Jame Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), after which he was often cast as villains before branching into roles such as a police unit member in Heat (1995). He played Captain Leland Stottlemeyer on Monk from 2002 to 2009 and voiced Sinestro in several DC animated series. His later films include The Hills Have Eyes (2006), American Gangster (2007), Shutter Island (2010), and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). He also appeared on The Bridge and The Alienist.

69years old

Turns 70 on May 29in 229 days

  • Born Bellaire
  • Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
  • Frank Theodore Levine (birth name)

Movie Career

Films
40
Career span
38 years1988 to 2026

Genres

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Ted Levine movies on Netflix

Best known for

The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.

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  1. The Silence of the Lambs1991 Crime, Drama, Thrilleras Jame Gumb

    IMDb rating 8.61.7M votes

  2. Shutter Island2010 Mystery, Thrilleras Warden

    IMDb rating 8.21.7M votes

  3. American Gangster2007as Lou Toback

    IMDb rating 7.8494K votes

  4. The Hills Have Eyes2006as Big Bob Carter

    IMDb rating 6.4198K votes

  5. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom2018as Ken Wheatley

    IMDb rating 6.2388K votes

  6. Heat1995as Bosko

    IMDb rating 8.3819K votes

  7. Evolution2001as Gen. Woodman

    IMDb rating 6.1143K votes

  8. Wild Wild West1999as General 'Bloodbath' McGrath

    IMDb rating 5.0175K votes

Most often with

Jonathan Demme directed two of these films, Michael Mann two and Costa-Gavras two. 21 actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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Films together

Box office

What Ted Levine's films earned in cinemas worldwide.

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Combined worldwide box office

$3.4 billion

26 of the 40 films have a worldwide figure.

Of the 40 films: 26 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 5 never in cinemas; 6 figure not found; 1 too new to count.

  • 26Worldwide figure
  • 2US gross only
  • 5Never in cinemas
  • 6Figure not found
  • 1Too new to count

Highest grossing

The eight biggest films earned 88% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.

  1. 1
    $1.3B39.0% of the total
  2. 2
    Shutter Island2010as Warden
    $295M8.8% of the total
  3. 3
    The Silence of the Lambs1991as Jame Gumb
    $273M8.1% of the total
  4. 4
    American Gangster2007as Lou Toback
    $270M8.0% of the total
  5. 5
    Wild Wild West1999as General 'Bloodbath' McGrath
    $222M6.6% of the total
  6. 6
    The Fast and the Furious2001as Sgt. Tanner
    $207M6.2% of the total
  7. 7
    Heat1995as Bosko
    $187M5.6% of the total
  8. 8
    Flubber1997as Wesson
    $178M5.3% of the total
Evolution (2001), $98.4 millionAli (2001), $87.8 millionThe Hills Have Eyes (2006), $69.6 millionNowhere to Run (1993), $64.0 millionBirth (2004), $23.9 millionNext of Kin (1989), $15.9 millionThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), $14.7 millionMad City (1997), $10.5 millionBig Game (2014), $7.5 millionLittle Boy (2015), $6.5 millionSwitchback (1997), $6.5 millionBleed for This (2016), $6.2 millionWonderland (2003), $2.5 millionThe Mangler (1995), $1.8 millionLove at Large (1990), $1.4 millionGeorgia (1995), $1.1 million

$419 millionfrom the other 18 films with a worldwide figure, 12% of the total