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Eugene Levy

Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy has appeared in over fifty motion pictures, seven of which having topped the one hundred million dollar mark. His box office success in films like Bringing Down The House, Cheaper By The Dozen 2, Father of the Bride 2 and Over the Hedge has helped establish him as one of Hollywood's most popular comedic character actors. But it was his role of Jim's Dad in American Pie and its sequels that cemented his reputation as being America's favorite dad.
Eugene has completed filming the 4th instalment of the American Pie Series titled "American Reunion" along with Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan & Seann William Scott.

Teaming up with Christopher Guest, Levy earned critical acclaim for co-writing and co-starring in Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, For Your Consideration and A Mighty Wind. His work in A Mighty Wind garnered him a Grammy Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award along with a Golden Globe nomination for Best in Show.

Levy started his career on the popular late night comedy series SCTV where he won two Emmy Awards for writing. His early films include Splash, Club Paradise, Armed And Dangerous and Multiplicity.

Recent projects include the hockey comedy, Goon opposite Jay Baruchel, Sean William Scott and Liev Schreiber, Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, his work as the voice of Albert Einstein in Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, and alongside Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson in the animated feature Astro Boy



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  • Best in Show
  • Best in Show review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Comedian's Best Friend 8 January 2007
    ...A good vehicle for Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy to work on the principle of imitating a reality show and only leaving in the emotional bits. Chris Guest's characte...   Read customer review
  • Splash
  • Splash review by from Northern Ireland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Great fun 28 April 2004
    ... first sight. John Candy brings bombastic support as Hanks' brother along with Eugene Levy as a paranoid scientist....   Read customer review
  • American Pie: The Wedding
  • American Pie: The Wedding review by from York, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Too much Stifler? 19 March 2005
    ...(she's only goofy about twice) and I don't know why Kevin's even in this movie. Eugene Levy is great as Jim's dad, and the scenes he has with Jason Biggs are among the bes...   Read customer review

Eugene Levy - filmography


  • Goon - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Marc-André Grondin,  Liev Schreiber,  Kim Coates
    Director: Michael Dowse
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Comedy in which a bouncer considered a failure by his intellectual family finds his true calling as a tough ice hockey player. Doug Glatt (Sean William Scott) is very much the black sheep of his family. While his father and brother are well-educated and well-paid doctors, Doug never took to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,380 members
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  • Goon on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Marc-André Grondin,  Jay Baruchel,  Seann William Scott
    Director: Michael Dowse
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Goon is the story of Doug Glatt, a down-on-his-luck bouncer, who’s been touched by the fist of God. Upon discovering both his right hook and skates, he joins a hockey team destined for the cellar and inspires them into the playoffs.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 13,239 members
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  • Taking Woodstock - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Kelli Garner,  Liev Schreiber,  Imelda Staunton
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy drama from celebrated director Ang Lee, based on the memoir 'Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life' by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. The year is 1969 and Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin) has had to move back to work in his parents' run down Catskills motel after an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 80 members
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  • American Pie 7 - Book of Love on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Eugene Levy,  Bug Hall,  Kevin M. Horton
    Director: John Putch
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ten years after the first American Pie movie, three new hapless virgins discover the Bible hidden in the school library at East Great Falls High. Unfortunately for them, the book is ruined, and with incomplete advice, the Bible leads them on a hilarious journey to lose their virginity.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 367 members
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  • Taking Woodstock on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Imelda Staunton,  Liev Schre,  Dan Fogler
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It is 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a failing interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has moved back home to help his parents run their dilapidated motel. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn't paid the insurance; and Elliot is still deciding how to "..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 318 members
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  • The Man (2005)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Eugene Levy,  Luke Goss
    Director: Les Mayfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy starring Samuel L. Jackson. Federal Agent Derrick Vann (Jackson) walks the walk, while affable dental supply salesman Andy Fidler (Eugene Levy) talks and talks. It is a case of mistaken identity that forces the mismatched duo to team up and sets off an intense and hilarious adventure as they ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 35,621 members
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  • Cheaper By The Dozen 2 (2005)
    Starring: Piper Perabo,  Carmen Electra,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy sequel starring Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt. Tom Baker (Martin) and wife Kate (Hunt), hoping to bring their family together for a memorable summer vacation, take their twelve offspring to rustic Lake Winnetka, Wisconsin - their longtime family vacation home. But their retreat soon turns ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 21,725 members
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  • New York Minute (2004)
    Starring: Riley Smith,  Mary-Kate Olsen,  Andy Richter
    Director: Dennie Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Action comedy starring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. Uptight overachiever Jane (Ashley Olsen), up for a scholarship at Oxford University, has a major speech to give - while laid-back rock rebel Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen), a friend of Jack Osbourne, hopes to get backstage at a video shoot and slip ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,793 members
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  • Bringing Down The House on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Joan Plowright,  Steve Harris
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A salutory tale about the perils of Internet chat rooms. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin), an uptight lawyer, meets his soul-mate on the Internet and arranges a meeting. Imagine his shock when he meets Charlene (Latifah), a manic prisoner on the run. When Peter decides he wants nothing to do with her,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 7,296 members
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  • A Mighty Wind on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Christopher Guest,  Ed Begley Jr.,  Harry Shearer
    Director: Christopher Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left behind a legacy of music and a family of performers he has shepherded to folk stardom. To celebrate a life spent submerged in folk, Irving's loving son Jonathan has decided to put together a memorial concert featuring some of Steinbloom's best-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 10,153 members
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  • Dumb And Dumberer on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eug,  Cheri Oteri,  William Lee Scott
    Director: Troy Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Troy Miller's prequel to the Farrelly Brothers' 1994 hit 'Dumb and Dumber'. Harry Dunne (Derek Richardson) and Lloyd Christmas (Eric Christian Olsen) are seen in their formative teen years where it all began - 1986 at Providence High School - when Dumb literally ran headfirst into Dumberer.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 3,683 members
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  • American Pie: The Wedding (2003)
    Starring: Molly Cheek,  Fre,  Thomas Ian Nicholas
    Director: Jesse Dylan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With Great East Falls High now just a memory, the kids have grown into adults ready to wreak havoc with a new rite of passage: Jim and Michelle are getting married--in a hurry. Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see Jim walk down the aisle, so they're going for it in two frantic weeks. Stifler ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 27,638 members
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  • Like Mike (2002)
    Starring: Robert Forster,  Crispin Glover,  Brenda Song
    Director: John Schultz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A film debut for teenage rapper Lil' Bow Wow. Calvin (Lil' Bow Wow) lives in an orphanage and desperately dreams of being adopted by a real family. When he discovers a pair of magical sneakers another of his dreams comes true: the sneakers lead to him being discovered by the trainer of an all-star ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,190 member
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  • Repli-Kate on DVD (2002)
    Starring: James Roday,  Desmond Askew,  Eugene Levy
    Director: Frank Longo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When journalist Kate (Ali Landry) comes to research a story at a West Coast genetics lab she makes quite an impression on scientist Max (James Roday). But then a bizarre scientific mishap inexplicably replicates Kate, leaving the overwhelmed lab workers wondering just what should they do with a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 244 members
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  • Greg the Bunny - The Complete Series (2002)
    Starring: Eugene Levy,  Seth Green,  Bob Gunton
    Director: Mike Mitchell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Can puppets and humans live side by side? In the world of Greg the Bunny, they can. Set in Hollywood, land of movie stars and struggling actors of all fabrics, Greg the Bunny (Dan Milano), a squeaky-voiced rabbit puppet, longs to live the high life -- one where he's got a job or something. Greg's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 31 members
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  • American Pie 2 on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jason Biggs,  Eddie Kaye Thomas,  Eugene Levy
    Director: J.B. Rogers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This sequel to 'American Pie' sees the gang reunited a year later, older but not necessarily any wiser. With their end-of-semester vacation ahead Jim, Oz, Kevin, Vicky and new girl Heather gather to spend summer in a beachhouse by the sea. Jim (Jason Biggs) freaks out at the news that his one-night ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 21,094 members
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  • Serendipity - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Molly Shannon,  Bridget Moynahan,  Jeremy Piven
    Director: Peter Chelsom
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale star as Jonathan and Sara, two young people who meet by chance one Christmas in New York and spend a memorable evening wandering around the city together. When they part at the end of the night, they decide to let fate take charge of their future and make no plans to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 319 members
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  • Down To Earth on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Mark Addy,  Frankie R. Faison,  Jennifer Coolidge
    Director: Paul Weitz,  Chris Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Lance is a budding comedian who is hit by a bus and dies before his time. Wishing to return to earth, but unable to inhabit his former body, he is placed in the corpse of a rich, white Manhattan mogul. Living in the body of a callous old white man would be bizarre enough for Lance without falling ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,343 member
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  • American Pie 2 - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Jason Biggs,  Eddie Kaye Thomas,  Eugene Levy
    Director: J.B. Rogers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This sequel to 'American Pie' sees the gang reunited a year later, older but not necessarily any wiser. With their end-of-semester vacation ahead Jim, Oz, Kevin, Vicky and new girl Heather gather to spend summer in a beachhouse by the sea. Jim (Jason Biggs) freaks out at the news that his one-night ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 139 members
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  • Best in Show on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Patrick Cranshaw,  Christopher Guest,  Bob Balaban
    Director: Christopher Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    It's time for the annual Mayflower Dog Show; the owners are assembling for the big competition, and what a bizarre bunch they are. There's yuppie couple Meg (Parker Posey) and Hamilton (Michael Hitchcock), who are both concerned that their pooch has been disturbed by seeing them having sex; there's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 14,092 members
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  • The Ladies Man on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen,  Karyn Parsons,  John Witherspoon
    Director: Reggie Hudlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Recently-sacked radio sex therapist Leon Phelps (Tim Meadows) is happy to receive a letter from a former lover offering him unlimited resources of love and money. But as the letter is unsigned, Leon has to search out his future benefactor by visiting all his former flames - and given Leon's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 997 members
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  • Serendipity on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Molly Shannon,  Bridget Moynahan,  Jeremy Piven
    Director: Peter Chelsom
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    On a bustling shopping day in the winter of 1990, Jonathon Trager meets Sara Thomas. Two strangers amid the masses in NYC, their paths collide in the mad holiday rush as they fall victim to a mutual attraction. Despite the fact that each is involved in another relationship, Jonathon and Sara spend ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 15,754 members
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  • American Pie - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Jason Biggs,  Thomas Ian Nicholas,  Chris Klein
    Director: Paul Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Prom night at East Green Falls High is only three weeks away and hormonal teens Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) all vow to lose their virginity before the big night. Rumours are already spreading of Finch's sexual prowess; Oz plans to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 924 members
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  • American Pie on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jason Biggs,  Thomas Ian Nicholas,  Chris Klein
    Director: Paul Weitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Prom night at East Green Falls High is only three weeks away and hormonal teens Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) all vow to lose their virginity before the big night. Rumours are already spreading of Finch's sexual prowess; Oz plans to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 27,534 members
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  • Sodbusters on DVD (1994)
    Starring: John Vernon,  Kris Kristofferson,  Max Gail
    Director: Eugene Levy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Kris Kristofferson stars in this western-spoof. The citizens of Marble Hat, Colorado are 'Sodbusters', farming the very land that ruthless villain Slade Cantrell needs to profit from the advancing railroad. The struggle for territory quickly degenerates into a battle of the half-wits, with Cantrell'..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 108 members
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  • Once Upon A Crime (1992)
    Starring: John Candy,  James Belushi,  Cybill Shepherd
    Director: Eugene Levy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A spurned woman and an unemployed actor travel to Monte Carlo to deliver a lost dachshund to its owner and collect a $5,000 reward. But the dog's owner has been murdered and through a bizarre series of complications, the pair becomes implicated in the crime. A madcap murder mystery ensues involving ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 42% from 28 members
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  • Stay Tuned (1992)
    Starring: John Ritter,  Pam Dawber,  Jeffrey Jones
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Couch potatoe Roy Knable buys a satellite and TV from a mysterious door to door salesman named Spike, who promises that the TV will offer "the ultimate getaway". But after Roy and his wife argue about this recent purchase they are suddenly sucked into the TV, and must find a way to escape this ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 39 members
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  • Armed And Dangerous on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Kenneth McMillan,  John Candy,  Eugene Levy
    Director: Mark L. Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy starring John Candy. Frank Dooley (Candy) is an ex-cop, thrown out of the force after being framed by corrupt colleagues. Norman Kane (Eugene Levy) is an out-of-work attorney who quit because he lost his nerve. Both men turn to a private security firm to find employment, but everything goes ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 613 members
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  • Club Paradise (1986)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Peter O'Toole,  Rick Moranis
    Director: Harold Ramis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Pack your bags for Club Paradise, the Caribbean resort where the good times and laughter come at you in waves. Academy Award winner Robin Williams steers their crazed course of this tropical romp as an ex-Chicago fireman who uses a sizable disability settlement to transform a remote island watering ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 147 members
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  • Splash on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Daryl Hannah,  John Candy,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    I'm in love with a mermaid! read the opening line of Leonard Maltin's original review for Splash. And with the delightful Darryl Hannah in the lead, who could fault Maltin for his public declaration of ardor? The story begins in 1959, when a young boy is rescued from a watery grave by an adolescent ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 10,338 members
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  • Running (1979)
    Starring: Susan Anspach,  Philip Akin,  Eugene Levy
    Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Michael Douglas stars in this Canadian drama, about a man, who believing he is a failure, decides to compete in the Olympic marathon. Determined to win at any cost, he enters and finds that it is a gradual journey to winning back his self-respect.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 79 members
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  • Cannibal Girls on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Eugene Levy,  Andrea Martin,  Ronald Ulrich
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young couple spends the night in a restaurant only to find out that it is occupied by three women who hunger for human flesh in this this horror film from the director of classic comedy, Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Stripes, Meatballs). This 1973 long sought-after cult movie was known for a "..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 72 members
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  • Gooby
    Starring: Matthew Knight,  Robbie Coltrane,  Eugene Levy
    Director: Wilson Coneybeare
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Imagine if you had a six-foot tall "monster" to help you through the rough times when you were a kid! Willy is terrified about moving into the family's new house. He's convinced it's filled with evil space aliens out to get him. In response to his longing for someone to save him, Gooby comes to ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 2 members
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Eugene Levy facts

5 most recent films

Goon - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Goon - 3.5 stars
Taking Woodstock - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
American Pie 7 - Book of Love - 3.0 stars
Taking Woodstock - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

American Pie 2 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
American Pie - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Goon - 3.5 stars
American Pie: The Wedding - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
American Pie - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Gooby - 1.5 stars
Once Upon A Crime - 2.5 stars
Stay Tuned - 3.0 stars
Greg the Bunny - The Complete Series - 3.5 stars
Dumb And Dumberer - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Fred Willard - 11 times - show films
Seann William Scott - 9 times - show films
Catherine O'Hara - 8 times - show films
Christopher Guest - 8 times - show films
Jennifer Coolidge - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christopher Guest - 8 times - show films
Peter Chelsom - 4 times - show films
Paul Weitz - 3 times - show films
Michael Dowse - 3 times - show films
J.B. Rogers - 2 times - show films