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Larry Drake

Larry Drake

Birthday: 1950-02-21 | Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Larry Richard Drake (February 21, 1950 – March 17, 2016) was an American actor. The son of Lorraine, a homemaker, and Raymond Drake, a drafting engineer for an oil company. Drake is renowned for his portrayal of developmentally disabled Benny Stulwicz on the television show L.A. Law from 1987 until the show's end in 1994, for which he won two consecutive Emmy Awards (1988, 1989). He returned to the part of Benny in L.A. Law: The Movie, a "reunion" movie aired on NBC in 2002. Drake has appeared in numerous television and film roles, including: Time Quest, Dark Asylum, Paranoid, Bean, Overnight Delivery, The Beast, The Journey of August King, Murder in New Hampshire, Dr. Giggles, Darkman, Darkman II: The Return of Durant, The Taming of the Shrew (1983), American Pie 2, and Dark Night of the Scarecrow. He was also a regular on the 1998 science fiction TV show Prey. Drake provided the voice acting for Pops on Johnny Bravo. In 2007 he co-starred in the made for TV movie Gryphon, a Sci-Fi Pictures original film. Drake married actress Ruth De Sosa in 1989; they divorced in 1991. In October 2009, he married horror writer and model Marina Drujko, but later they divorce in the same year, 2009. On March 17, 2016, Drake was found dead in his Los Angeles home at the age of 66. Drake's manager, Steven Siebert, reported that the actor had some health problems in the months before his death. It was later reported that Drake suffered from a rare form of blood cancer that caused his blood to thicken. Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Drake, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2009
Green Lantern: First Flight

as    Ganthet (voice)

2007
Attack of the Gryphon

as    Armand

2006
Dorm Daze 2

as    Dean Dryer

2005
Officer Down

as    Captain Raymond Taggart

2001
Dark Asylum

as    The Trasher

1999
Durango Kids

as    Dudley

1999
Inferno

as    Ramsey Hogan

1998
Paranoia

as    Calvin Hawks

1998
Prey

as    Dr. Walter Attwood

1998
Overnight Delivery

as    Hal Ipswich

1998
The Treat

as    Ray

1996
The Beast

as    Lucas Coven

1995
Darkman II: The Return of Durant

as    Robert G. Durant

1992
Dr. Giggles

as    Dr. Evan Rendell

1990
Darkman

as    Robert G. Durant

1988
Too Good to Be True

as    Glen Robie

1986
L.A. Law

as    Benny Stulwicz

1981
Dark Night of the Scarecrow

as    Bubba Ritter

1975
Truckin' Man

as    Diesel Joe

1971
This Stuff'll Kill Ya!

as    Bubba