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Steve Bean, also known as Steve Levy, died on January 21 after a long battle with cancer. The 58-year old actor, best known for roles in Ray Donovan and Shameless, shared his battle with the rare Sino-Nasal Squamous Cell Carcinoma publicly, even writing an essay about it in 2016 titled A Year Without My Nose. Throughout his career, Steve Bean held many roles on popular shows such as Days of Our Lives, Monk, Married with Children and Dharma and Greg, just to name a few. Upon learning of his death, there have been a few questions about Bean’s television roles […]

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Actor and comedian Steven Levy, aka Steve Bean, died Jan. 21 after a battle with cancer. He was 58 years old.

Born in Lynn, Mass. and raised in Providence, R.I, Levy attended Carnegie Mellon University and cut his theatrical teeth performing stand-up at local Pittsburgh area nightclubs. In 1980, Levy teamed up with comic Chris Zito, a duo that became known as Zito and Bean. In Boston, Zito and Bean garnered an enthusiastic following. They became mainstays of the Boston comedy scene and enjoyed a three-year run with their own show at a popular club, Play It Again Sam’s. After about a decade, Levy split from the duo to move to Los Angeles, where he joined the Groundlings Improv Group and wrote for such shows as the “Tim Conway Show” and ABC’s “Dot Comedy.” As an actor he landed roles on such series as “Quantum Leap,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Married with Children” and “Monk,...