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name: "Oscar Levant"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 December 1906"
died: "14 August 1972"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T02:15:05.558174+00:00"
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# Oscar Levant

Actor. Born 27 December 1906 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 14 August 1972.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 December 1906, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 14 August 1972
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Levant, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q945042, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505157/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27966

## Biography

Oscar Levant (27 December 1906 – 14 August 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, actor and author. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he studied piano with Zygmunt Stojowski and composition with Arnold Schoenberg. He composed scores for numerous Hollywood films and Broadway productions, and performed extensively as a pianist, including works by George Gershwin.

Levant appeared in supporting roles in several Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals, playing Adam Cook in *An American in Paris* (1951), Lester Marton in *The Band Wagon* (1953) and Ezra Millar in *The Barkleys of Broadway* (1949). He also portrayed himself in the Gershwin biopic *Rhapsody in Blue* (1945) and appeared in *Humoresque* (1947). He was a regular panellist on the radio quiz show *Information Please* and hosted his own television programme in the late 1950s. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *An American in Paris* (1951), Fi1m 76, as Adam Cook — [page](https://film.one/film/an-american-in-paris.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *That's Entertainment! III* (1994), as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *That's Entertainment, Part II* (1976), as (archive footage)
- *The Cobweb* (1955), as Mr. Capp
- *The Band Wagon* (1953), as Lester Marton
- *The I Don't Care Girl* (1953), as Charles Bennett
- *O. Henry's Full House* (1952), as William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
- *An American in Paris* (1951), as Adam Cook — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/an-american-in-paris.md)
- *The Barkleys of Broadway* (1949), as Ezra Millar
- *Romance on the High Seas* (1948), as Oscar Farrar
- *You Were Meant for Me* (1948), as Oscar Hoffman
- *Humoresque* (1947), as Sid Jeffers
- *Rhapsody in Blue* (1945), as Oscar Levant
- *Fellow Americans* (1942), Music
- *Kiss the Boys Goodbye* (1941), as Dick Rayburn
- *Rhythm on the River* (1940), as Billy Starbuck
- *Made for Each Other* (1939), Music
- *Nothing Sacred* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *Charlie Chan at the Opera* (1936), Music
- *In Person* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Crime Without Passion* (1934), Additional Music
- *Let's Try Again* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *Love Comes Along* (1930), as Songs
- *Tanned Legs* (1929), as Songs
- *Night Parade* (1929), as Ann Pennington's Piano Accompanist
- *The Delightful Rogue* (1929), as Songs
- *Street Girl* (1929), as Songs
- *The Dance of Life* (1929), as Jerry Evans

## Gallery

- ![Oscar Levant](https://film.one/media/person/1236635/gallery-9aec2bfd57ba.jpg) Oscar Levant — Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Oscar_Levant_in_Rhapsody_in_Blue_trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Oscar Levant in the Barkleys of Broadway (1949)](https://film.one/media/person/1236635/gallery-e650c5fd026c.jpg) Oscar Levant in the Barkleys of Broadway (1949) — film trailer screenshot (MGM), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Oscar_Levant_in_Barkleys_of_Broadway.jpg/1280px-Oscar_Levant_in_Barkleys_of_Broadway.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Oscar Levant](https://film.one/media/person/1236635/gallery-23d31f14575a.jpg) Oscar Levant — Image via TMDB
- ![Oscar Levant](https://film.one/media/person/1236635/gallery-9e9ed639cf1d.jpg) Oscar Levant — Image via TMDB

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