Larry Drake

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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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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1950-02-21
  • event Death Date 2016-03-17
  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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Bean

1997-07-03

6.1

Inferno

1999-09-25

6.5

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

1981-10-24

5.1

Dead Air

2009-10-27

5.6

Overnight Delivery

1998-04-07

6.4

Darkman

1990-08-24

5.6

Dr. Giggles

1992-10-23

6.7

The Journey of August King

1995-09-14

7

Green Lantern: First Flight

2009-07-28

4.3

Attack of the Gryphon

2007-01-27

5.6

Darkman II: The Return of Durant

1995-07-11

3.5

Durango Kids

1999-10-10

4.5

Timequest

2003-05-09

3

Truckin' Man

1975-05-01

2.7

Darkman

1992-02-21

1

I Will Avenge You, Iago!

2005-04-19

3.3

Too Good to Be True

1988-11-14

10

The Skin of Our Teeth

1983-01-18

5.4

Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story

1991-09-23

7.2

Batman Beyond: The Movie

1999-01-10

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NBC 75th Anniversary Special

2002-05-05

4.6

Dorm Daze 2

2006-09-05

3.8

Dark Asylum

2001-11-08

6

Mrs. Harris

2006-02-25

4.8

Paranoia

1998-06-01

6

This Stuff'll Kill Ya!

1971-02-26

5.1

Date with a Kidnapper

1976-01-01

4

The Treat

1998-09-10

6.5

For Keeps

1988-01-15

7.6

L.A. Law: The Movie

2002-05-12

6

Officer Down

2005-08-01

6.2

American Pie 2

2001-08-10

5

The Beast

1996-04-28

4.5

The Secrets of Emily Blair

2016-10-01

6.2

One More Mountain

1994-03-06

6.6

Spun

2003-02-07

4

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

1983-02-06

6.7

Runaway Virus

2000-01-29

4.6

The Seniors

1978-06-30

7.2

The Karate Kid

1984-06-22

5.9

The Big Brawl

1980-08-18

5.7

Pathology

2008-04-11

8.7

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

1999-09-07

7.1

L.A. Law

1986-09-15

8.1

Six Feet Under

2001-06-03

8.1

Batman Beyond

1999-01-10

8

Tales from the Crypt

1989-06-10

7.3

Johnny Bravo

1997-07-07

7.2

Crossing Jordan

2001-09-24

8

E! True Hollywood Story

1996-08-21

6.8

Prey

1998-01-15

7.6

Superman: The Animated Series

1996-09-06

8.3

Stargate SG-1

1997-07-27

7.3

Hunter

1984-09-18

7.9

Boston Legal

2004-10-03

6

American Playhouse

1982-01-12

7.7

The Outer Limits

1995-03-26

8.1

Justice League

2001-11-17

7.8

Star Trek: Voyager

1995-01-16

8

Tales from the Crypt

1989-06-10

6.5

As Told by Ginger

2000-10-25

8.4

Firefly

2002-09-20

6.8

Road Rovers

1996-09-07

7

The Legend of Calamity Jane

1997-09-14

6.3

The Beast

1996-04-28

7.9

What's New, Scooby-Doo?

2002-09-14

4

The Fearing Mind

2000-10-21

6.4

The Naked Truth

1995-09-13

6.4

Hardcastle and McCormick

1983-09-18

6.4

7th Heaven

1996-08-26

7.5

Fantasy Island

1998-09-26

6.8

Golden Globe Awards

1944-01-20