Marc Edward Heuck

Marc Edward Heuck (born July 17, 1969) 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.

Heuck was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He attended Roger Bacon High School and went to college at Ohio State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Photography and Cinema.

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".

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Television