Marc Edward Heuck Explained

Marc Edward Heuck
Birth Name:Marc Edward Heuck
Years Active:2001-Present
Notable Works:Beat the Geeks, The Director's Chair
Occupation:Actor, Writer, Producer

Marc Edward Heuck is an American actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his role as The Movie Geek on the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Career

Heuck has worked as a film projectionist at Nuart Theatre, New Beverly Cinema, and Cinefamily.

He appeared as a contestant on Win Ben Stein's Money before being cast as The Movie Geek on Beat the Geeks.

Heuck provided audio commentary tracks and interview segments for the DVD releases of the 1981 slasher Scream, 1995 slasher satire Night of the Dribbler, Savage Streets, Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend, The Candy Snatchers, The Pyx, The Visitor, and the dark comedy Men Cry Bullets. Heuck also recorded a historical commentary for the 1981 punk rock satire Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains that was legally barred from inclusion on the DVD, but can be downloaded online.

More recently, he provided audio commentary tracks and/or interview segments for the BluRay releases of Kingdom of the Spiders, Private Lessons (with Gariana Abeyta and Jackson Stewart), Mirror, Mirror, Malibu High, Mark L. Lester's Steel Arena, Stewart Raffill's Mac and Me, Cheech Marin's Born in East L.A., Jeff Kanew's V.I. Warshawski, Philippe Mora's The Return of Captain Invincible, and the Australian ViaVision release of Richard Fleischer's The Don is Dead (with Glenn Erickson).

Heuck wrote the foreword for Marc Salzman's DVD Confidential, a non-fiction book designed to help DVD viewers locate easter eggs in movies. He has been a writer for New Beverly Cinema and Night Flight and wrote trivia bumpers for El Rey Network's "Grindhouse Friday" movie broadcasts.

In 2014, Heuck was an Associate Producer on The Director's Chair for El Rey Network during its first season.

From 2019 to its conclusion in 2022, Heuck was a competitor in the Movie Trivia Schmoedown, where he portrayed a villain often called "The Enigma".

Filmography

Film

YearTitleActorWriterProducer
2008The Killing of a Chinese Cookie
2014Out of Print
2015
2017Scumbag
2020Choke
2023Masters of the Grind

Television

YearTitleEpisodeActorWriterProducer
2001Beat the GeeksSeasons 1-2
2002Win Ben Stein's MoneyJune 24 Ep.
2014The Director's ChairSeason 1

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Game show spotlights media geeks. 2002-04-24. Daily Bruin. en. 2020-04-26.
  2. Book: Sconce, Jeffrey. Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics. 2007-10-24. Duke University Press. 978-0-8223-3964-9. en.
  3. Book: Nedeff, Adam. This Day in Game Show History- 365 Commemorations and Celebrations, Vol. 4: October Through December. BearManor Media. en.
  4. Web site: Working The 'Beat'. EW.com. EN. 2020-04-26.
  5. Book: Popular Science. March 2002. Bonnier Corporation. en.