Larry Laverty
Birthday: 30 June 1959, Berkeley, California, USA
Birth Name: Laurence Arthur Laverty
Laurence Arthur "Larry" Laverty is an American actor. Laverty is best known for his hilarious appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and for his supporting roles in Gus Van ...Show More
I've watched a lot of hopeful people in this business, good friends of mine, get kicked to the curb Show more
I've watched a lot of hopeful people in this business, good friends of mine, get kicked to the curb and left in the dust, but I'm still standing, drunk on hope and making movies. Hide
[on becoming an actor] I worked all these jobs to pay for every single day I went to college, thinki Show more
[on becoming an actor] I worked all these jobs to pay for every single day I went to college, thinking at the end I'd be OK spending my life in a cubicle, a big-shot businessman, but I've got to have thunder and lightning in my life and this crazy career in acting is all that. Hide
Cine 7...my neighborhood movie theater in Oakland during the late 60's and 70's...It was the Roman C Show more
Cine 7...my neighborhood movie theater in Oakland during the late 60's and 70's...It was the Roman Colosseum for movie watching during a turbulent time in American history. Every night a movie played, it was like a rock concert, a super bowl, and the best party you've ever been to all rolled into one. As a young kid, I hung out at that crazy place as much as I could and took note through the clouds of pot smoke of the booze, the sex in the seats, the cat calls, and the firecrackers and flaming cigarettes that made their way toward the screen when the movie got slow, on and on. Movies were an event like no other at Cine 7 and while those days and the theater are long gone, I try to keep the spirit of that place alive in the way I play my characters and the way I live my life. Hide
Hollywood. I've worked a few days in this town. And I've noticed the Walk of Fame and all that, but Show more
Hollywood. I've worked a few days in this town. And I've noticed the Walk of Fame and all that, but the real heroes around here are the rank and file who just keep showing up, on both sides of the camera, their names on unmarked slabs up and down the boulevard. Hide
I often think to myself, I'm wasting my life... doing this acting thing. I should be out there savin Show more
I often think to myself, I'm wasting my life... doing this acting thing. I should be out there saving animals or fighting to save our environment... two things I've been passionate about all my life. But here I am... immersed in this outrageously successful acting career... fiddling while Rome burns. Hide
I always thought I'd accomplish something special in life... and I'm just gonna keep on thinking tha Show more
I always thought I'd accomplish something special in life... and I'm just gonna keep on thinking that way til I'm 6 feet under. Hide
I'm old-school, you know, old-fashioned in the way I am in the world and the way I'd like to see the Show more
I'm old-school, you know, old-fashioned in the way I am in the world and the way I'd like to see the world be. Always have been. At the same time, the madness I see in the world gives me endless amounts of delicious inspiration to play the offbeat characters I do. Hide
[on losing his buddy Theo to cancer] I'd watched about three foreign films in my entire life, the We Show more
[on losing his buddy Theo to cancer] I'd watched about three foreign films in my entire life, the Westerns by Leone, but Theo being Dutch watched European flicks all the time so I watched those darn things with him and had my eyes opened. We'd talk for hours about those movies and about life, and I've never looked at either the same since. Hide
Even though my G.P.A. was near perfect in college, they denied me admission to this exclusive gradua Show more
Even though my G.P.A. was near perfect in college, they denied me admission to this exclusive graduate school in the Sciences at U.C. Berkeley. But, it turned out they did me a favor. At that point, I decided I'd dedicate my life to art, to acting. Life's been the wildest adventure you could imagine ever since. Hide
Larry Laverty's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (49)