Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Jewish-Canadian actor, television director, producer and writer who is best known for his operate around American television series and American movies and television series. He exposed film at McMaster University and graduated in 1967. As a student at McMaster, he was vice president of the McMaster Film Board, a student film class action in which he met moviemaker Ivan Reitman.

An grad of each 2nd City Toronto & a classic sketch comedy television import SCTV, Levy typically plays unusual supporting characters by using nerdy streaks. He's the frequent cast member around triple threat Christopher Guest's mockumentary features, sustaining a virtually all recent plan existence In your Consideration (2005). He likewise played a ignorant however caring daddy in the sex comedies of the U.s. Pie films, & an high-strung pursuer around Ron Howard's Splash (1984). At one point, Levy understand for a dispense with the hit NBC series A West Wing (1999), the role that afterwards attend Richard Schiff.

Eugene Levy too appeared in the HBO pasquinade docudrama titled The Canadian Conspiracy about the supposed subversion of the United States by American innate media personalities. Levy was a insider world health organization blew a whistle on the conspiracy.

As of 2004, Levy was on the Advisory Committee for the Comedy program at Humber College, the exclusively such sheepskin program in the globe.

Filmography
Foxy Lady (1971) Cannibal Girls (1973) Running (1979) Double Negative (1980) Nothing Personal (1980) Heavy Metal (1981) (voice) ''National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) Going Berserk (1983) Splash (1984) Tears Are Not Enough (1985) (documentary) Club Paradise (1986) Armed and Dangerous (1986) Speed Zone! (1989) Father of the Bride (1991) Once Upon a Crime... (1992) (Cameo) (also director) Stay Tuned (1992) I Love Trouble (1994) Father of the Bride Part II (1995) Multiplicity (1996) Waiting for Guffman (1996) (also writer) Akbar's Adventure Tour (1998) (short subject) Almost Heroes (1998) Holy Man (1998) (Cameo) The Secret Life of Girls (1999) Dogmatic (1999) American Pie (1999) Silver Man (2000) Best in Show (2000) (also writer) The Ladies Man (2000) Down to Earth (2001) Josie and the Pussycats (2001) (Cameo) American Pie 2 (2001) Serendipity (2001) Repli-Kate (2002) Like Mike (2002) Bringing Down the House (2003) A Mighty Wind (2003) (also writer) Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) American Wedding (2003) New York Minute (2004) The Man (2005) Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) (currently filming) For Your Consideration (2006) (also writer) (presently filming) Curious George (2006) (voice) (currently filming) Over the Hedge'' (2006) (voice) (currently filming)