- published: 14 Jun 2016
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Eugene Levy, CM (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, musician, and writer. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, with his role as Noah Levenstein. He often plays nerdy, unconventional figures, with his humour often deriving from his excessive explanations of matters and the way in which he deals with sticky situations. Levy is a regular colloborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in five of his films, commencing with Waiting for Guffman in 1997. Levy 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 on June 30, 2011.
Levy was born to a Jewish family in Hamilton, Ontario. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a foreman at an automobile plant. He went to Westdale Secondary School, and attended McMaster University. He was vice-president of the McMaster Film Board, a student film group, where he met moviemaker Ivan Reitman.
Actors: Jess Platt (miscellaneous crew), Rick Parker (miscellaneous crew), Michael Jaffe (producer), Gilda Radner (writer), Merv Griffin (producer), Lynn Josephson Delaney (miscellaneous crew), Paul Dixon (editor), Marcia Bennett (actress), Ernest Chambers (producer), Howard Braunstein (producer), Karen Robinson (actress), Gilda Radner (actress), George Wyner (actor), Jane Luk (actress), Pamela Hackwell (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The story of comedienne 'Gilda Radner' (qv), based on her autobiography. Covered are her years as part of the original cast of _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv), her marriage to actor/director 'Gene Wilder' (qv) and her battle with ovarian cancer, to which she succumbed in 1989.
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