. . . Where Are They Now? . . .Hello fans,Catching up with actor Larry Drake today, who won two Emmy Awards for his portrayal of developmentally disabled Benny Stulwicz on the television show L.A. Law. What has he been up to since the show went off the air in 1994? Read on to find out!
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Don Adams: Played Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, ("Missed it by that much!") on the TV series "Get Smart", he was also the voice of the cartoon characters Tennessee Tuxedo and Inspector Gadget
Jim Jarmusch: Film director, movies include "Stranger Than Paradise", "Coffee and Cigarettes", "Night on Earth", and "Down by Law"
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(Answer at the bottom)*Larry DrakeLearn More About Larry Drake on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: February 21, 1950, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
CLAIM TO FAME: He is best known for his portrayl of Benny Stulwicz on the television show L.A. Law.
FAMILY LIFE: Marina Drujko (October 2009 - December 2009) (divorced)
Ruth de Sosa (15 October 1989 - 1991) (divorced)
INFO: Drake had sporadic roles throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, but struck gold with his portrayal of developmentally disabled Benny Stulwicz on the television show L.A. Law from 1987 until the show's end in 1994. He won two consecutive Emmy Awards (1988, 1989) for the role. Drake reprised this role for L.A. Law: The Movie, which aired on NBC in 2002.
Drake continued to act over the years, accumulating many television and film roles. He was also a regular on the 1998 science fiction TV show Prey.
TRIVIA: Graduate of the University of Oklahoma.
Had originally studied to become a teacher.
In addition to acting, Drake has a passion for classic cinema and also enjoys big band music and reading.
The son of Lorraine, a homemaker, and Raymond Drake, a drafting engineer for an oil company.
WHERE IS HE NOW: In 2008, Drake appeared in an episode of Boston Legal. He provided the voice of Kazdan Paratus for the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and the voice of Ganthet for the video Green Lantern: First Flight.
He once again voiced Kazdan Paratus for the 2009 video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition.
Drake also appeared in the 2009 horror film Dead Air.
*CREDITS:2009 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition (Video Game)...Kazdan Paratus (voice)
2009 Dead Air...Vernon
2009 Green Lantern: First Flight (video)...Ganthet (voice)
2008 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Video Game)...Kazdan Paratus (voice)
2008 Boston Legal (TV series)...Bishop Luke Bernard
The Gods Must Be Crazy (2008)
2008 Pathology...Fat Bastard
2007 Gryphon (TV movie)...Armand
2006 Dorm Daze 2 (video)...Dean Dryer
2006 7th Heaven (TV series)...Mr. Riley
And More Secrets (2006)
2006 Love Hollywood Style...Walter
2006 Living the Dream...Richard
2005 Mrs. Harris (TV movie)...Harris Defense Team Psychiatrist
2005 Officer Down (TV movie)...Captain Raymond Taggart
2005 I Will Avenge You, Iago!...The Warden
2005 Jenny Says (short)...Dr. Weinhouse
1999-2004 Johnny Bravo (TV series)...Pops
2004 What's New, Scooby-Doo? (TV series)...Moss T. Meister / Scooby Snax Monster
Recipe for Disaster (2004)
2003 Justice League (TV series)...Colonel Vox
2003 Crossing Jordan (TV series)...Tom
Wild Card (2003)
2002 Firefly (TV series)...Sir Warwick Harrow
Shindig (2002)
2002 Spun...Dr. K
2002 A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series)...Hackett
Help Wanted, Male (2002)
2002 Six Feet Under (TV series)...Inspector Gerson
The Last Time (2002)
2002 L.A. Law: The Movie (TV movie)...Benny Stulwicz
2002 As Told by Ginger (TV series)...Dr. Weinstein
Never Can Say Goodbye (2002)
2001 Thieves (TV series)...Robert Ventana
The Long Con (2001)
2001 Dark Asylum...The Trasher
2001 Stargate SG-1 (TV series)...Burrock
Beast of Burden (2001)
2001 American Pie 2...Natalie's Dad
2000 Timequest...J. Edgar Hoover
2000 Star Trek: Voyager (TV series)...Chellick
Critical Care (2000)
2000 The Fearing Mind (TV series)...Police Officer Hooper
On the Road
2000 Time of Her Time...Dr. Joyce
2000 Runaway Virus (TV movie)...Dr. Griggs
1999 Durango Kids...Dudley
1999/II Desert Heat...Ramsey Hogan
1999 Batman Beyond (TV series)...Jackson Chappell
The Winning Edge (1999)
1999 Batman Beyond: The Movie (TV movie)...Jackson Chappell (voice)
1998 Fantasy Island (TV series)...Bill Terken
Estrogen (1998)
1998 The Treat...Ray
1998 Prey (TV series)...Dr. Walter Attwood
1998 Paranoia...Calvin Hawks
1998 Overnight Delivery...Hal Ipswich
1997 Dead Man's Gun (TV series)...Samuel 'Buryin' Sam' Roller
Buryin' Sam (1997)
1997 Bean...Elmer
1997 Spy Game (TV series)...Leo Ludwig
Well, Nothing to Fear But Death Itself
1996 Superman (TV series)...Mr. Eelan
My Girl (1996)
1996 Road Rovers (TV series)...Captain Zachary Storm
1996 The Beast (TV movie)...Lucas Coven
1995 The Naked Truth (TV series)...Dr. Bryce Fromm
Elvis Is Coming! (1995)
1995 The Journey of August King...Olaf Singletary
1995 The Outer Limits (TV series)...Robert Vitale
The Message (1995)
1995 Darkman II: The Return of Durant (video)...Robert G. Durant
1987-1994 L.A. Law (TV series)...Benny Stulwicz
1994 One More Mountain (TV movie)...Patrick Breen
1992-1993 The Legend of Prince Valiant (TV series)
The Song of Valor (1993) (voice)
The Guardian (1992) (voice)
1992 Blind Geronimo and His Brother
1992 Dr. Giggles...Doctor Evan Rendell
1992 Darkman (TV movie)...Robert G. Durant
1991 Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (TV movie)...Mark Sisti
1990 Darkman...Robert G. Durant
1989-1990 Tales from the Crypt (TV series)...Santa / Tobias
The Secret (1990) ... Tobias
And All Through the House (1989) ... Santa
1989 Oh, Henry! (TV movie)...Henry
1988 Too Good to Be True (TV movie)...Glen Robie
1988 For Keeps?...Night Clerk
1987 Hunter (TV series)...Kirkland
Hot Pursuit: Part 2 (1987)
1986 Code of Vengeance (TV series)...Jack Fergusen
Rustler's Moon (1986)
1986 The Ladies Club...Cop No. 2
1984 The Karate Kid...Yahoo #1 at Beach
1983 Hardcastle and McCormick (TV series)...Jesse Roberts
Just Another Round of That Old Song (1983)
1983 American Playhouse (TV series)...Conveener / Homer
The Skin of Our Teeth (1983)
1983 The Taming of the Shrew (video)...Baptista
1981 Dark Night of the Scarecrow (TV movie)...Bubba Ritter
1981 The White Lions...Fiske
1980 The Big Brawl...Judge #1
1978 The Seniors...Bus Sign Installer (uncredited)
1976 The Electric Chair...Courtroom Observer (uncredited)
1976 Date with a Kidnapper...Age Home Attendant
1975 Trucker's Woman...Diesel Joe
1971 This Stuff'll Kill Ya!...Bubba
To see Then & Now pictures of Larry Drake, visit: Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Don Adams - DEAD (Infection)
Born: 04/13/1923 Died: 09/25/2005
Jim Jarmusch - ALIVE
Born: 01/22/1953
Steve Landesberg - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 11/23/1945 Died: 12/20/2010
*WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...7/24
Pius Langa, 74, South African judge, Chief Justice (2005-2009), member of the Constitutional Court (1994-2009).
Derek Percy, 64, Australian murderer, longest-serving prisoner in Victoria, cancer.
7/23
Sant Kaur Bajwa, 115, British claimed supercentenarian, UK's oldest and world's second-oldest person, natural causes
Dominguinhos, 72, Brazilian composer and singer, infection and cardiac complications.
Emile Griffith, 75, U.S. Virgin Island boxer, middleweight and welterweight champion, complications from dementia.
Vahram Harutyunyan, 54, Armenian artist.
Jokichi Ikarashi, 111, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest man in the world.
Mike Morwood, 62, Australian archaeologist, discoverer of the Flores hobbit, cancer.
Djalma Santos, 84, Brazilian footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from pneumonia.
Carsten Schloter, 49, German executive, CEO of Swisscom, suicide.
Billy Smith, 35, British boxer, suicide.
Manjula Vijayakumar, 59, Indian actress, blood clot in the stomach.
7/22
Josef Desimone, 44, American chef (Facebook, Google), motorcycle collision.
Dennis Farina, 69, American actor (Law & Order, Get Shorty, Unsolved Mysteries), pulmonary embolism.
GiGi Hines, 76, American blues singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
Ramon T. Jimenez, 89, Filipino lawyer.
Valérie Lang, 47, French actress, brain tumor.
Linda Lewis, 52, Canadian magazine editor (More, Today's Parent), leukemia.
Vallabh Das Mehta, 84, Indian economist and academic.
Lawrie Reilly, 84, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C., national team).
Alejandro Santiago, 49, Mexican sculptor and painter, heart attack.
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, 93, Indian civil servant, Chairman of SCI, Secretary General of IMO, awarded Padma Vibhushan (2009).
Keron Thomas, 37, American train thief, heart attack.
Rosalie E. Wahl, 88, American jurist, member of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1977-1994).
7/21
Kenneth W. Andrews, 83, American newspaper publisher (The Clarion-Ledger), pancreatic cancer.
Andrea Antonelli, 25, Italian motorcycle racer (World Supersport Championship), race collision.
Thony Belizaire, 54, Haitian news photographer (AFP), complications of respiratory difficulty.
Paul Candies, 72, American racing owner (NHRA top fuel and funny car), heart attack.
Yair Clavijo, 18, Peruvian footballer (Sporting Cristal), cerebral edema caused by underlying cardiac condition.
Ronnie Cutrone, 65, American artist.
Det de Beus, 55, Dutch Olympic field hockey champion (1984) and bronze medal-winner (1988).
Denys de La Patellière, 92, French film director (Marco the Magnificent) and novelist.
Irene Gleeson, 68, Australian humanitarian, throat cancer.
Francis Kadenge, Kenyan footballer (A.F.C. Leopards, national team), chronic stomach ulcers.
R. D. Matthews, 92, American underworld figure, Benny Binion's protection, noted in Warren Commission findings of John F. Kennedy assassination.
Pius Oleh, 42, Nigerian footballer (national team), carbon monoxide poisoning.
Willie Reed, 76, American key witness in Emmett Till murder trial.
Ugo Riccarelli, 59, Italian novelist, complications from a heart and lung transplant.
James Russell, 91, American financial journalist and editor (Miami Herald, UPI), correctly predicted the dot com bust.
David Shamoon, 82, Iraqi-born British hotelier (Marbella Club Hotel), pneumonia.
Jude Speyrer, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lake Charles (1980-2000).
Fred Taylor, 93, American football coach (Texas Christian University, 1967-1970).
7/20
Korvotney Barber, 26, American basketball player (Lugano Tigers), drowned.
John Casablancas, 70, American modeling agent and scout, founder of Elite Model Management, father of Julian Casablancas, cancer.
Pierre Fabre, 87, French pharmaceutical and cosmetics executive, founder of Laboratoires Pierre Fabre.
Georgy Guryanov, 52, Russian drummer (Kino), complications of hepatitis C, liver and pancreatic cancer.
Faye Hunter, 59, American alternative rock musician (Let's Active), suicide.
Khurshed Alam Khan, 94, Indian politician, Governor of Goa (1989-1991) and Karnataka (1991-1999), aortic stenosis.
Nkosiphendule Kolisile, 40, South African politician, traffic collision.
Jim Langley, 75, American PGA golfer.
Alexander Lilov, 79, Bulgarian political party leader and academic.
Allan Mapisa, 27, Zimbabwean musician, traffic collision.
Oommen Mathew, 73, Indian politician, Kerala MLA for Kuttanad (1980-1982).
Sarah McCarthy, 38, Australian magazine editor (Girlfriend), heart attack.
Anand Bhaskar Morla, 33, Indian documentary film maker, electrocuted.
Surya Prasad Pokharel, 50, Nepalese jurist, Joint Attorney General (since 2008), traffic collision.
Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao, 66, Indian politician, Andhra Pradesh MLA for Chintalapudi (1983-2004), cardiac arrest.
Augustus Rowe, 92, Canadian physician and politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MLA for Carbonear (1971-1975).
David Spenser, 79, Sri Lankan-born British radio play performer (Just William), actor and producer.
George Szypula, 92, American gymnast (Temple University) and gymnastics coach (Michigan State University, 1947-1988), NCAA Championship (1958).
Helen Thomas, 92, American journalist and author, member of the White House Press Corps.