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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Starbright
2025
as Bud
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
2023
as Leland Stottlemeyer
Monk steps out of retirement as his stepdaughter's wedding turns tragic when her fiancé dies in a bungee jumping accident.

The Report
2019
as John Brennan
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
2019
as Ed Quinn
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
2018
as Ken Wheatley
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
2017
as Theseus
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
2017
as Preacher
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
2017
as Rouge Holmes
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
2016
as Lou Duva
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
2016
as Tanner
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
2015
as Chief Edwards
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
2015
as Sam
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
2015
as General Underwood
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
2014
as Sheriff Waterhouse
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
2014
as Lewis
A professional poker player falls deep into underworld when he takes an unexpected wager from a mysterious high roller.

Banshee Chapter
2013
as Thomas Blackburn
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
2013
as Cecile
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
2013
as James Lee Mitchell
The story of a mentally challenged teenager who interacts with supernatural beings he calls "Watchers".

Deep Dark Canyon
2013
as Bloom Towne
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
2010
as Warden
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)
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
2007
as Lou Toback
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
2007
as Sheriff Timberlake
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
2007
as James Gumb
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
2007
as Jame Gumb
A visual commentary for "The Silence Of The Lambs" with the cast & crew in a "picture in picture" mode.

The Hills Have Eyes
2006
as Big Bob
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
2005
as Colonel Derricks
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
2005
as Tom Saltine
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
2004
as Mr. Conte
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
2004
as Colonel Howard
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
2003
as Sam Nico
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
2002
as Emil Zadapec
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return ...

Ali
2001
as Joe Smiley
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
2001
as Rusty Nail (voice) (uncredited)
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'
2001
as Self
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
2001
as Sgt. Tanner
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
2001
as General Russell Woodman
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
2000
as Silas Kincaid
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
1999
as General 'Bloodbath' McGrath
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
1998
as Bill Hammond
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
1998
as Eli Cooperberg
Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital — failed writer Eli, neurotic Sus...

Flubber
1997
as Wesson
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
1997
as Lemke
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
1997
as Deputy Nate Booker
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
1996
as Paul Callendar
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
1996
as Louis Stein
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
1995
as Bosko
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna p...

Georgia
1995
as Jake
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
1995
as Officer John Hunton
When an accident involving a folding machine at an old laundry happens, detective John Hunton investigates. As his investigation progresses, he begins...

Todo cambia
1994
as Vince
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
1993
as Gary Ward
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
1993
as Potts
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
1993
as Kenny the D.J. (uncredited)
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
1993
as Alex Tierney
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
1993
as Mr. Dunston
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
1991
as Charles Rose
Both sides of the law hunt Costabile 'Gus' Farace for slaying a federal drug agent in 1989 New York.

Murder in High Places
1991
as Carson Russell
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
1991
as Jame Gumb
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
1990
as Frederick King / James McGraw
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
1989
as Willy Simpson
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
1989
as Jonathan
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
1988
as Wes
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
1987
as Pocono Pete
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

Crime Story: Pilot
1986
as Frank Holman
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

Two Fathers' Justice
1985
as Bennett

The Killing Floor
1984
as Policeman
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
1983
as Patrolman
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
N/A
as Kent
An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.