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Ted Levine

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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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Heat

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Silence of the Lambs

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Fast and the Furious

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Shutter Island

As Warden

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

As Ken Wheatley

American Gangster

As Lou Toback

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

As Boris

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Full Throttle

From the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the dusty backroads of America, this chain follows the adrenaline, the engineering, and the outlaws who live for the race.

8 films

The Rivalry Within: How Feuds Shape the Soul

From duelling magicians to warring chefs, explore how rivalry reveals our deepest fears and desires. A cinematic journey through competition, obsession, and the...

8 films

When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos

From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...

8 films

From Oscar Glory to Genre Gold: A Career Reinvention Chain

Trace the arc of performers who swapped prestige for pulp, and found a different kind of immortality in genre cinema.

4 films

Second Chances

From Hitchcock to Mann, a journey through films where directors revisit their own earlier work, refining obsession into art.

8 films

The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority

From a detective's haunted pursuit to a killer's fractured psyche, this chain traces cinema's most intimate crime stories, where the real action happens inside...

8 films

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