Larry Laverty

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Larry Laverty
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Born1959 (age 61–62)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
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  • Actor
  • photographer
Years active1986–present

Laurence Laverty (born 1959) is an American character actor. His film roles include playing Larry Davies in The Hamiltons (2006), as well as appearances in Dead Tone (2007) and in Gus Van Sant's Elephant (2003). Laverty made television guest appearances in Judging Amy , The Practice , Breaking Vegas , Nash Bridges , and MADtv . His performance on The Tonight Show led to a number of appearances on daytime soap operas including Days of Our Lives , Passions , Port Charles , and All My Children .

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He is also a writer and photographer and, in 2019, published a book of photography entitled Power and Majesty: The Plight and Preservation of the African Elephant.

Early life

Laverty was born in 1959 in Berkeley, California, and grew up in nearby Oakland. [1] [2] His father was an engineer and a veteran of World War II, [3] and his mother was a bookkeeper and historian.[ citation needed ] Laverty was an Eagle Scout, [4] as well as a member of the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society. [5] He graduated from Skyline High School in Oakland and then moved to Kuna, Idaho, to live on the family farm while he worked a variety of jobs. He earned two college degrees, in business administration and political science, from Boise State University, [6] [7] which included attending an acting class during his last year before graduating in 1985. [8] He also undertook graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. [9]

Career

Laverty performed on stage in a number of plays and musicals while studying acting with the American Conservatory Theater, The Groundlings, and The Second City. [2] [10] He spent 11 years living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in Calgary, Alberta, and in Butte, Montana, while he trained in the hopes of joining the U.S. Olympics team as a speedskater. [2] In 1990, his second film appearance was in a minor role as a soldier in John Frankenheimer's The Fourth War . [4]

Some of Laverty's earliest appearances in a lead role were in two early short films by Irish filmmaker Dermot Tynan, [5] A Talk in the Dark and The Biscuit Eaters. Within the same year, he acted in a Canadian movie production, Icetime, with Canadian actor Jackson Davies.[ citation needed ]

Laverty has appeared in more than 100 films, [11] including Gus Van Sant's Elephant (2003), [12] [13] What's Bugging Seth? (2005), Further North (2008), The Wylds (2010), [14] Cut (2011), [15] American Disciples (2011), Radio Dreams (2016), and The Control Group (2014). He was also a producer of several films including Kid (1993), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Most of the Time (2016), and Gods In Shackles (2016). [5]

Laverty has appeared in a number of horror films. [16] [17] He appeared in the 2007 film Dead Tone in a supporting role. The next year, he appeared in the Antony De Gennaro film Son of Terror [18] and the Phillip Grasso film ChainSmoke. He has also appeared in a number of television roles including Days of Our Lives , Judging Amy , The Practice , and All My Children . [11] In 2016, Laverty traveled to Ireland to work once again with Tynan in Most of the Time (2016). He starred in a lead role and was also co-producer of the short film. [5]

Photography and conservation

Laverty began photography at the age of 5. From 2010 to 2015, Laverty images were published in the MacArthur Metro, a newspaper serving Oakland, California, for which he also was a columnist. [19] Beginning in 2015 onward, his images of wildlife in Africa were published by numerous international wildlife conservation organizations.[ citation needed ]

In 2017, he began taking part in speaking engagements that focused on the plight of the African elephant, engagements that revolved around the presentation of his images taken while spending six months in Africa. In 2019, he released a table-top book of images and observations on African elephants entitled Power and Majesty: The Plight and Preservation of the African Elephant. [20] [21]

Filmography

Laverty has appeared in more than 100 films and televisions series, including:

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1990 The Fourth War Aide to HackworthUncredited
1991IcetimeFredShort film
1992A Talk In The DarkThe Man
1993 Made in America MechanicUncredited
1998 Mafia! Dealer
2002 High Crimes FBI SWAT Team Member
2003 Love Comes Softly Funeral Man
Elephant Teacher #3 [22]
2005 What's Bugging Seth Fred
2006 The Hamiltons Larry Davies
2007 Dead Tone Police officer
2008 In Search of Lovecraft Professor Sutton
The SanguinarianAmmiel
Natural PossessionDetective Al Cooper
2009DogDetective Robert Burns
2010The Adventures of Chris FableIggy
2011The FamilyDeputy Bobby Peterson
2012The LocalsAbel
2013Post Mortem, America 2021Ray
2014 Man from Reno Hotel ManagerUncredited
The Control GroupAgent Trapper
2016Most of the TimeFrankShort film
2017 Branded Salty
Radio Dreams TV reporter [23] [24]
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 Days of Our Lives FBI Agent #21 episode
1999 Nash Bridges Bystander #11 episode (uncredited)
1997–1999 Port Charles Officer Howell / Waiter2 episodes
2000 MADtv Co-pilot1 episode (season 5)
Judging Amy Mr. O'Neil1 episode
2001 Passions Fisherman1 episode
2002 The Practice Jury Foreman1 episode
2003 All My Children BJ's Manager1 episode
2003–2004 The New Detectives Family Member / Robert Brown2 episodes
2005 Breaking Vegas Al Francesco1 episode

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