SAM LEVENE
ACTING
Sam Levene was a Broadway, film, radio and television actor who in a career spanning 5 decades created some of the most legendary comedic roles in American theatrical history.
Levene appeared in a staggering list of 38 Broadway productions, 33 of which were the original Broadway productions, including Nathan Detroit, the craps-shooter extraordinaire, in the 1950 original Broadway production of "Guys and Dolls", Max Kane, the hapless agent, in the original 1932 Broadway production of "Dinner at Eight", Patsy, the comedic gambler, in the 1935 Broadway farce "Three Men on a Horse" , Gordon Miller, the shoestring producer, in the original 1937 Broadway production of "Room Service", Sidney Black, the theatrical producer, in " Light Up the Sky" , Horace Vandergelder, the crotchety merchant of Yonkers, in the 1954 premier UK production of Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" and Al Lewis, the retired vaudevillian, in the original 1972 Broadway production of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys".
- Sweet Smell of Success1957
- Action in the North Atlantic1943
- God Told Me To1976
- Designing Woman1957
- Crossfire1947
- Brute Force1947
- Dial 11191950
- After the Thin Man1936
- Shadow of the Thin Man1941
- The Killers1946
- The Purple Heart1944
- The Opposite Sex1956
- The Babe Ruth Story1948
- Guilty Bystander1950
- Golden Boy1939
- The Mad Miss Manton1938
- Last Embrace1979
- Grand Central Murder1942
- ...And Justice for All1979
- Gung Ho!1943
- Whistling in Brooklyn1943
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue1957
- Killer McCoy1947
- The Big Street1942
- Three Men on a Horse1936
- Destination Unknown1942
- I Dood It1943
- Act One1963
- Three Sailors and a Girl1953
- Kathy O'1958
- Married Bachelor1941
- Boomerang!1947
- The Shopworn Angel1938
- A Likely Story1947
- A Dream of Kings1969
- Such Good Friends1971
- Yellow Jack1938
- The True Glory1945
- Leather Gloves1948
- Follow the Boys1944
- Studio One1948
- Studio One1948