Desmond Herzfelder · CC BY 4.0

Eugene Levy made a career of the perpetually flustered straight man, first on the sketch series SCTV and then across four Christopher Guest mockumentaries he co-wrote, including Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind, which won him a Grammy for its title song. Decades later he co-created Schitt's Creek with his son Dan Levy, playing patriarch Johnny Rose in a role that won him the 2020 Emmy for lead comedy actor. Canada named him to the Order of Canada in 2011.