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Larry Drake (born February 21, 1950) is an American actor.
Drake was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Lorraine, a homemaker, and Raymond Drake, a drafting engineer for an oil company. Drake is best known 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.
Actors: Brandon E. Brooks (actor), Brandon E. Brooks (producer), Charlie McDermott (actor), Dave Manzo (editor), Amy Carlson (actress), Michael Jacques (actor), Adam C. Edwards (actor), Kathilynn Phillips (director), Kathilynn Phillips (writer), Kathilynn Phillips (producer), Gildart Jackson (actor), Laurence Lau (actor), David Forsyth (actor), Maurice Lavelle (actor), Chrystopher Ryan Johnson (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: James H. Nicholson (producer), Herman Cohen (writer), Paul Brinegar (actor), Frank Richards (actor), Herman Cohen (actor), Herman Cohen (producer), Robert Shayne (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), John Ashley (actor), Thomas Browne Henry (actor), Eddie Marr (actor), Paul Maxwell (actor), Malcolm Atterbury (actor), Walter Reed (actor), Herman Cohen (writer),
Plot: Accomplished but eccentric movie make-up artist Pete Dumond has been with the studio for decades and is totally devoted to his art especially in the creation of screen monsters. His world ends abruptly when new management acquires the company and arbitrarily decides that the horror cycle has run its course, and the studio will now concentrate on escapist musicals. When Dumond hears he will be pink-slipped, the neurotic but usually affable Pete turns psychotic and vows vengeance on the two movie executives responsible. Using a combination of hypnosis and a newly developed chemical formula, Dumond is able to use mind control to compel the young actors playing the teenage Frankenstein and werewolf to exact vengeance for him.
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