John Larroquette
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| Born | John Bernard Larroquette November 25, 1947 New Orleans, Louisiana |
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John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American Emmy Award-winning film and television actor. His best known roles include Dan Fielding on the series Night Court and Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride. He joined the cast of Boston Legal in fall 2007.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Larroquette was born in New Orleans, Louisiana the son of Bertha Oramous (née Helmstetter), a department store clerk, and John Edgar Larroquette,[1] who was in the U.S. Navy.[2] He played reed instruments as a child and moved to Los Angeles, California in 1973.
[edit] Career
Larroquette's first role was uncredited, as an Army soldier in Follow Me, Boys! (1966). He also had an uncredited role as the narrator of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). His most memorable non-comedy role was in the 1970s NBC program Baa Baa Black Sheep where he portrayed a WWII U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot named Luke Witkowski.
Larroquette first broke into TV on the soap opera Doctors' Hospital, and may be best known for his role as boorish, sex-obsessed Dan Fielding on Night Court, a role for which he won Emmy Awards in 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988. In 1989, he asked not to be considered for an Emmy.[citation needed] His four consecutive wins were, at the time, a record. Night Court ran on NBC from 1984 until 1992. Only Larroquette, Harry Anderson, and Richard Moll (as Bull Shannon) appeared in every episode of the series.
Larroquette later starred on The John Larroquette Show as the character John Hemmingway. The show was lauded by critics and enjoyed a loyal cult following.
In 1998, he guest-starred on three episodes of the legal drama The Practice. His portrayal of Joey Heric, a wealthy, wisecracking, narcissistic psychopath with a habit of stabbing his gay lovers to death, won him his fifth Emmy Award. He reprised the role for one episode in 2002, for which he was once again Emmy-nominated.
His starring roles include the 1989 movie Second Sight, with Bronson Pinchot, and Madhouse, with Kirstie Alley. Other movies Larroquette had significant roles in include: Blind Date, Stripes, Meatballs Part II, Summer Rental, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, JFK, and Richie Rich.
During the filming of Stripes, his nose was nearly cut off in an accident. He was running down a hall into a door which was supposed to open, but it didn't, and his head went through the window in the door.[3]
In 2003, Larroquette narrated the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this time fully credited. From 2004 to 2006, he played the title role in the McBride series of American TV movies. He also guest starred in the drama House where he played a previously catatonic father awakened to try to save his son. In June 2007, The Insider reported that Larroquette was set to join the cast of Boston Legal.[4]
[edit] Personal life
Larroquette has three children with his wife, Elizabeth Ann Cookson. He is also a registered member of the Libertarian Party, a fact to which he alluded when he made an appearance on Dennis Miller's CNBC show on the "Varsity Panel".[citation needed] During an appearance on Tom Snyder's show, Larroquette mentioned that he almost quit the party when they nominated Howard Stern to run for governor of New York.[citation needed]
Larroquette was born and raised in New Orleans,LA in the middle ninth ward. He lived in New Orleans until he was 22. He returned there after Hurricane Katrina and found the home in which he lived until age 12. He stated that returning to New Orleans after the hurricane was like returning to a post-apocalyptic world.[citation needed]
In the seventies and eighties, Larroquette battled alcoholism. On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 10, 2007 he joked, "I was known to have a cocktail or 60".[citation needed] He had also revealed that he'd suffered from black outs when drinking, a condition he describes as 'horrible'.[citation needed] To illustrate the severity of these black outs, he told Leno about one experience he had while drinking in which he woke up from a nap, realizing he was on a plane and had no idea where it was headed. He said that he was too embarrassed to ask where they were headed. (He eventually found out the plane was headed from Los Angeles to his hometown of New Orleans.) [5]
He enjoys collecting rare books. Authors whose works he has focused on include Samuel Beckett, Charles Bukowski, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs and Robinson Jeffers.[3] He is an avid fan of the New Orleans Saints.[citation needed]
A rumor circulated on the internet that Larroquette suffered from, and became a spokesman for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS); however, on January 14, 2008, while a guest on The Bob Rivers Show on KZOK he stated that the IBS rumor was completely false[6]. He noted this falsehood again on March 28, 2008 during the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
[edit] Filmography
Larroquette has appeared on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on numerous occasions, as well as several appearances on both David Letterman's shows. He has hosted Saturday Night Live twice. He also won another Emmy Award for his guest spot on "The Practice."
[edit] References
- ^ John Larroquette Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- ^ John Larroquette Biography (1947-)
- ^ a b "20 Questions," Playboy, April 1990
- ^ http://www.theinsideronline.com/news/5917/
- ^ The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, October 4, 2007.
- ^ The Bob Rivers Show Audio Player
[edit] External links
- John Larroquette at the Internet Movie Database
- John Larroquette article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- The Onion A.V. Club Random Roles interview
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