Larry Drake

Known for ActingBorn 1949-02-21Died 2016-03-17Tulsa, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

NBC 75th Anniversary Special

The Skin of Our Teeth

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

Firefly

Stargate SG-1

Justice League

Batman Beyond

Six Feet Under

E! True Hollywood Story

Boston Legal

Tales from the Crypt

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Star Trek: Voyager

The Outer Limits

Superman: The Animated Series

Fantasy Island

Johnny Bravo

Crossing Jordan

Batman Beyond: The Movie

L.A. Law: The Movie

The Karate Kid

Green Lantern: First Flight

L.A. Law

Hunter

The Journey of August King

As Told by Ginger

Prey

The Legend of Calamity Jane

Road Rovers

Golden Globe Awards

Spun

The Naked Truth

American Playhouse

Bean

For Keeps

7th Heaven

Darkman

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Hardcastle and McCormick

The Beast

American Pie 2

Inferno

This Stuff'll Kill Ya!

The Beast

One More Mountain

Mrs. Harris

Pathology