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Eugene Levy
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Eugene Levy is a Canadian screenwriter, film actor, actor, and film producer. Born on December 17, 1946, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, he is a citizen of Canada and speaks English. He attended McMaster University and began his work period in 1969. Levy resides in Pacific Palisades.
He has received a Primetime Emmy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, and a place on Canada's Walk of Fame. His children are Dan Levy (Canadian actor) and Sarah Levy.
According to Open Library, he is associated with five works, including *La révélation française*, *Best Wishes, Warmest Regards*, *James Weldon Johnson*, *James Weldon Johnson, Black Leader, Black Voice*, and *L' Étoile d'Orient*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- La révélation française
- Best Wishes, Warmest Regards
- James Weldon Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson, Black Leader, Black Voice
- L' Étoile d'Orient
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Film & TV
Acting · Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Eugene Levy CM (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor, known for his work in both Canadian and American movies and television series. He is the only actor to have starred in all seven of the American Pie films, as Noah Levenstein. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series SCTV. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest,…
Known for
- Marty, Life Is Short — Self2026
- You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution... — Self / Herb / Jesus2025
- John Candy: I Like Me — Self - Actor, SCTV2025
- Summer Camp — Stevie D2024
- The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy — Self - Host2023
- Human Resources — Paul Crumbhorn (voice)2022
- Back Home Again — Fire Chief Ducky (voice)2021
- Catherine O'Hara: All of Us Shine — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2021
- star-crossed: the film — Doctor2021
- Only Murders in the Building — Eugene Levy2021
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Jamaica
- Active from
- 1946
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 716
- Total plays
- 3,768
Eugene Levy is a pop punk band from Muscatine, Iowa. They started performing together in 2019. https://eugenelevyband.com/ <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Eugene+Levy">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,862x
- Estimation of the Concentration of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Plasma, Without Use of the Preparative Ultracentrifuge
· 1972 · cited 23,750x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,667x
- Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds
· 1993 · cited 20,512x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1946-12-17 ) December 17, 1946 (age 79) , Hamilton, Ontario , Canada
- Education
- McMaster University ( BA )
- Occupations
- Actor comedian
- Years active
- 1969–present
- Spouse
- Deborah Divine ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 )
- Children
- Dan Sarah
- Awards
- Full list
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He often plays flustered and unconventional figures. He is best known for appearing in the sketch comedy series SCTV, which aired from 1976 until 1984, and the American Pie series of films. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and co-writing four of his films, commencing with Waiting for Guffman (1996). From 2015 to 2020, he starred as Johnny Rose in Schitt's Creek, a comedy series that he co-created with his son and co-star Dan Levy.
Levy won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media in 2004 for "A Mighty Wind" from the film of the same name that he co-wrote. He received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 2008. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2011. In 2019 and 2020, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, which he won in 2020.
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