1. Daniel Joseph Lauria was born on April 12,1947 and is an American actor, who played the role of Jack Arnold in The Wonder Years, Jack Sullivan on Sullivan and Son, and Al Luongo on Pitch.
14 Facts About Dan Lauria
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Dan Lauria graduated from Lindenhurst Senior High School in 1965 as a varsity football player, and he briefly taught physical education at Lindenhurst High School.
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Dan Lauria graduated from Southern Connecticut State University in 1970.
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Dan Lauria got his start in acting while attending Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut, on a football scholarship.
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Dan Lauria is best known for his portrayal of Jack Arnold, the stern, but loving, money-conscious father on the TV series The Wonder Years, which ran from 1988 to 1993.
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Dan Lauria played Commanding Officer, USA in 1996's Independence Day and NASA Administrator James Webb in the 1998 TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
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Dan Lauria has appeared in a 1997 episode of Boy Meets World, starring Ben Savage, the younger brother of Fred Savage, Lauria's on-screen son in The Wonder Years.
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Dan Lauria appeared on stage in New York in the summer of 2006 in an off-Broadway production of A Stone Carver by William Mastrosimone with Jim Iorio and Elizabeth Rossa.
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Dan Lauria had a small role in a season two episode of Army Wives, as well as a season one episode of The Mentalist.
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In late 2009, Lauria returned to the off-Broadway stage, appearing as Jimmy Hoffa in Brian Lee Franklin's Good Bobby, a fictionalized account of Robert F Kennedy's rise.
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In 2010, Dan Lauria appeared as Vince Lombardi in the Broadway play Lombardi.
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In 2012, Dan Lauria played the part of Jean Shepherd in the Broadway production of A Christmas Story: The Musical, a role which he reprised off-Broadway at Madison Square Garden in 2013.
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In 2021, Dan Lauria starred as a right-wing conspiracy theorist who marries a Russian mail-order bride in Wes Hurley's autobiographical dramedy Potato Dreams of America.
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Dan Lauria served one year as a Department of Veterans Affairs celebrity hospital visitor, during which he toured many VA hospitals, meeting patients.