1. John Larroquette played J B Bigley in a role for which he received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical.
24 Facts About John Larroquette
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John Larroquette made his film debut by providing the opening narration of the horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, following which he appeared in films such as Stripes, Choose Me, Blind Date, Madhouse, Richie Rich, and the Hallmark Channel mystery series McBride.
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John Larroquette played clarinet and saxophone through childhood and into high school.
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John Larroquette attended Holy Cross School through his sophomore year before involuntarily moving to Francis T Nicholls High School to finish his secondary education.
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John Larroquette was offered a scholarship to Louisiana State University after winning a state high school speech title but decided not to attend the university.
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John Larroquette's first acting role in Hollywood was providing the opening voiceover narration for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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John Larroquette did this as a favor for the film's director Tobe Hooper, and was paid in marijuana.
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John Larroquette ran down a hall into a door that was supposed to open but did not, and his head went through the window in the door.
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John Larroquette played Assistant District Attorney Dan Fielding on Night Court; the character was initially rather conservative, but changed after the sitcom's creator Reinhold Weege came to learn more about John Larroquette's sense of humor.
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Later, John Larroquette ended up on the 2023 series continuation as the only regular character from the original in the revival.
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On February 13,2024, while talking to reporters, John Larroquette admitted feeling a little sad when he first walked on the set of the Night Court revival, due to being one of the only cast members from the original run still living.
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The John Larroquette Show, named by the insistence of NBC, starred Larroquette as the character John Hemingway.
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John Larroquette reprised the role for one episode in 2002, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.
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John Larroquette appeared in an episode of The West Wing as White House Counsel Lionel Tribbey.
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In 2003, John Larroquette reprised his narration for the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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John Larroquette guest-starred in the drama House where he played a previously catatonic father awakened to try to save his son.
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From 2014 to 2018, John Larroquette was a regular on The Librarians as Jenkins, who provides support to the Librarians as a researcher and caretaker.
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John Larroquette's starring roles include the 1989 film Second Sight with Bronson Pinchot, and Madhouse with Kirstie Alley.
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John Larroquette made his Broadway debut in the 2011 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as J B Biggley alongside Daniel Radcliffe.
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John Larroquette won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in the show.
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John Larroquette appeared on Broadway in a revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, starring James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, and Candice Bergen.
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John Larroquette met his wife Elizabeth Ann Cookson in 1974 while working in the play Enter Laughing.
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Cookson brought her daughter Lisa from a previous relationship into the marriage, and she and John Larroquette would have two sons together, Jonathan and Benjamin.
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John Larroquette battled alcoholism from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.