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name: "Daniel Levins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniel-levins"
roles: []
born: "7 October 1953"
died: "15 September 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T06:01:13.535862+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Daniel Levins

Actor. Born 7 October 1953 in Freeport, New York, USA. Died 15 September 2015.

## Details

- **Born:** 7 October 1953, Freeport, New York, USA
- **Died:** 15 September 2015
- **Active:** 1977–1978
- **Also known as:** Daniel Levans
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Romance 3, Comedy 2, Drama 2
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $498m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2514832

## Biography

Daniel Levins was an American actor and ballet dancer, sometimes credited as Daniel Levans. He played Arnold in the 1977 film *The Turning Point*.

Born on 7 October 1953 in Freeport, New York, he trained in classical ballet and became a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre in the 1970s. He appeared as a dancer in *Grease* (1978) and as a dance instructor in *The Goodbye Girl* (1977), and guest-starred as Kyle Jeffers in an episode of *The Waltons* (1977).

Levins later worked as a choreographer for ballet companies and Off-Broadway productions, and taught at Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech school for 23 years. He died on 15 September 2015 in Brooklyn, New York.

*Sources: nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Grease* (1978), Fi1m 76, as Dancer — [page](https://film.one/film/grease.md)
- *The Goodbye Girl* (1977), Fi1m 68, as Dance Instructor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-goodbye-girl.md)
- *The Turning Point* (1977), Fi1m 70, as Arnold — [page](https://film.one/film/the-turning-point.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Can't Stop the Music* (1980), Choreographer
- *Grease* (1978), as Dancer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/grease.md)
- *The Goodbye Girl* (1977), as Dance Instructor — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-goodbye-girl.md)
- *The Turning Point* (1977), as Arnold — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-turning-point.md)
- *The Red Badge of Courage* (1974), as Soldier
- *The Waltons* (1972), series, as Kyle Jeffers

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