Ted Levine

Ted Levine

1957-05-29 Parma, Ohio, USA 68 Credits

Biography

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

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Starbright

Starbright

2025

as Bud

Acting

A young orphan escapes the realities of her life by fantasizing about, and then entering, a fairy tale world.

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

2023

as Leland Stottlemeyer

7.0
Acting

Monk steps out of retirement as his stepdaughter's wedding turns tragic when her fiancé dies in a bungee jumping accident.

The Report

The Report

2019

as John Brennan

7.0
Acting

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to...

A Violent Separation

A Violent Separation

2019

as Ed Quinn

7.0
Acting

1983. In a quiet Midwestern town, a young deputy covers up a murder at the hands of his brother triggering a series of events that sends them and the ...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

2018

as Ken Wheatley

6.5
Acting

Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed, Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Cla...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2017

as Theseus

3.9
Acting

A modern-day movie adaptation of William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream". The new version takes place in present-day Hollywood where fantasy...

Bottom of the World

Bottom of the World

2017

as Preacher

5.3
Acting

On their road trip through the southwestern desert, Alex and his girlfriend Scarlett arrive in a town in the middle of nowhere and take a room in a my...

Swing State

Swing State

2017

as Rouge Holmes

4.3
Acting

A bohemian Seattle DJ uses his on-air charisma to create a fictitious conservative radio personality, becoming an overnight sensation. Won best comed...

Bleed for This

Bleed for This

2016

as Lou Duva

6.8
Acting

The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza, who after a near fatal car crash, which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, ...

Dr. Del

Dr. Del

2016

as Tanner

Acting

Del Canyon reluctantly returns to his small hometown to run his family's apothecary, the only source for medical attention for hundreds of miles. The ...

Child of Grace

Child of Grace

2015

as Chief Edwards

6.0
Acting

Katie Johnson, a 9-year-old girl, has spent her entire life traveling across America in an RV with her father. At one of their stops, she finds a pict...

Little Boy

Little Boy

2015

as Sam

7.2
Acting

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love...

Big Game

Big Game

2015

as General Underwood

5.5
Acting

Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a...

Dig Two Graves

Dig Two Graves

2014

as Sheriff Waterhouse

5.6
Acting

A girl's obsession with her brother's disappearance leads her on a nightmarish journey through a small town's Gothic landscape where she is faced with...

Gutshot Straight

Gutshot Straight

2014

as Lewis

4.1
Acting

A professional poker player falls deep into underworld when he takes an unexpected wager from a mysterious high roller.

Banshee Chapter

Banshee Chapter

2013

as Thomas Blackburn

5.5
Acting

On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, fi...

A Single Shot

A Single Shot

2013

as Cecile

5.7
Acting

The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater cr...

Jimmy

Jimmy

2013

as James Lee Mitchell

6.9
Acting

The story of a mentally challenged teenager who interacts with supernatural beings he calls "Watchers".

Deep Dark Canyon

Deep Dark Canyon

2013

as Bloom Towne

6.0
Acting

Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenag...

Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010

as Warden

8.2
Acting

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his ...

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw

2008

as Narrator (voice)

6.6
Acting

Explores the true story of the notorious Jesse James, how the myth developed during his lifetime, and how the legends have persisted over 100 years af...

American Gangster

American Gangster

2007

as Lou Toback

7.6
Acting

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007

as Sheriff Timberlake

7.0
Acting

Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous o...

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary

2007

as James Gumb

Acting

A visual commentary for "The Silence Of The Lambs" with the cast & crew in a "picture in picture" mode.

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary

2007

as Jame Gumb

Acting

A visual commentary for "The Silence Of The Lambs" with the cast & crew in a "picture in picture" mode.

The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes

2006

as Big Bob

6.4
Acting

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the trave...

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005

as Colonel Derricks

7.7
Acting

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

2005

as Tom Saltine

2.6
Acting

The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial fo...

Birth

Birth

2004

as Mr. Conte

6.0
Acting

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving...

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

2004

as Colonel Howard

6.5
Acting

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

Wonderland

Wonderland

2003

as Sam Nico

6.1
Acting

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The...

The Truth About Charlie

The Truth About Charlie

2002

as Emil Zadapec

4.8
Acting

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return ...

Ali

Ali

2001

as Joe Smiley

6.8
Acting

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an enti...

Joy Ride

Joy Ride

2001

as Rusty Nail (voice) (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychoti...

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

2001

as Self

7.3
Acting

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Oscar winning thriller, prepared for its tenth anniversary. Includes interviews with star Anthony Hopki...

The Fast and the Furious

The Fast and the Furious

2001

as Sgt. Tanner

7.0
Acting

Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrate...

Evolution

Evolution

2001

as General Russell Woodman

6.1
Acting

A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the ...

Harlan County War

Harlan County War

2000

as Silas Kincaid

7.1
Acting

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lin...

Wild Wild West

Wild Wild West

1999

as General 'Bloodbath' McGrath

5.3
Acting

Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: ...

Ellen Foster

Ellen Foster

1998

as Bill Hammond

6.0
Acting

After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to f...

You Can Thank Me Later

You Can Thank Me Later

1998

as Eli Cooperberg

5.9
Acting

Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital — failed writer Eli, neurotic Sus...

Flubber

Flubber

1997

as Wesson

5.7
Acting

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and...

Mad City

Mad City

1997

as Lemke

6.2
Acting

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Switchback

Switchback

1997

as Deputy Nate Booker

6.0
Acting

After FBI agent Frank Lacrosse believes his son was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer, he travels to Amarillo, Texas, where he believes the murde...

Wiseguy

Wiseguy

1996

as Paul Callendar

4.2
Acting

Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside information brokering. M...

Bullet

Bullet

1996

as Louis Stein

6.1
Acting

A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.

Heat

Heat

1995

as Bosko

7.9
Acting

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna p...

Georgia

Georgia

1995

as Jake

5.8
Acting

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tend...

The Mangler

The Mangler

1995

as Officer John Hunton

4.9
Acting

When an accident involving a folding machine at an old laundry happens, detective John Hunton investigates. As his investigation progresses, he begins...

Todo cambia

Todo cambia

1994

as Vince

Acting

Teresa accidentally comes across Pablo, her old college love. Fifteen years ago, they had each left their country believing the other dead at the hand...

Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back

Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back

1993

as Gary Ward

6.2
Acting

Ever since Pam Cheney (Cheryl Ladd) lost her baby during labor, she has been struggling with depression. She is not only supported by her loving, but ...

The Last Outlaw

The Last Outlaw

1993

as Potts

5.3
Acting

The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff, had once been a heroic and staunch su...

The Paint Job

The Paint Job

1993

as Kenny the D.J. (uncredited)

4.2
Acting

The peaceful existence of a suburban backwater is disrupted when Wesley, a troubled housepainter falls for Margaret, the sensitive wife of his boss, W...

Death Train

Death Train

1993

as Alex Tierney

5.0
Acting

When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijacked train, special agents are dispatched to disarm ...

Nowhere to Run

Nowhere to Run

1993

as Mr. Dunston

6.4
Acting

Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.

Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace

Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace

1991

as Charles Rose

5.5
Acting

Both sides of the law hunt Costabile 'Gus' Farace for slaying a federal drug agent in 1989 New York.

Murder in High Places

Murder in High Places

1991

as Carson Russell

3.0
Acting

A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care for because he's a former h...

The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs

1991

as Jame Gumb

8.3
Acting

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatri...

Love at Large

Love at Large

1990

as Frederick King / James McGraw

4.9
Acting

Inept private investigator Harry Dobbs meets vampish new client Miss Dolan, who wants him to follow her abusive lover. But Dobbs sets about tailing a ...

Next of Kin

Next of Kin

1989

as Willy Simpson

5.9
Acting

Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer...

The Fulfillment of Mary Gray

The Fulfillment of Mary Gray

1989

as Jonathan

5.4
Acting

Couple wants a baby but husband cannot produce on. Husband calls in his brother, hoping his brother will oblige and his wife will agree. He takes a tr...

Betrayed

Betrayed

1988

as Wes

6.0
Acting

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

Ironweed

Ironweed

1987

as Pocono Pete

6.3
Acting

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

Crime Story: Pilot

Crime Story: Pilot

1986

as Frank Holman

8.3
Acting

One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

Two Fathers' Justice

Two Fathers' Justice

1985

as Bennett

5.0
Acting
The Killing Floor

The Killing Floor

1984

as Policeman

7.3
Acting

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the orga...

Through Naked Eyes

Through Naked Eyes

1983

as Patrolman

4.3
Acting

A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractiv...

Lear Rex

Lear Rex

N/A

as Kent

Acting

An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.