Larry Hankin was born on December 7,1937 and is an American character actor, performer, director, comedian, and producer.
18 Facts About Larry Hankin
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Larry Hankin is known for his major film roles as Charley Butts in Escape from Alcatraz, Ace in Running Scared, and Carl Alphonse in Billy Madison.
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Larry Hankin had smaller roles as Doobie in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Sergeant Larry Balzak in Home Alone, Mr Heckles in Friends, and Joe in Breaking Bad and El Camino.
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Larry Hankin graduated from Far Rockaway High School and Syracuse University, where he befriended Carl Gottlieb.
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Larry Hankin was an early member of the Second City, training with improvisational theater legends Viola Spolin and Paul Sills, and in 1963 moved to San Francisco to co-found another influential improv troupe, The Committee.
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Larry Hankin is known for his roles in TV shows Breaking Bad, Matlock, Friends and Seinfeld, as well as for his major role in Escape from Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood.
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Larry Hankin had cameo appearances in three John Hughes films, Planes, Trains and Automobiles ; She's Having a Baby ; and Home Alone ; which coincidentally featured Roberts Blossom, whom he co-starred with in Escape from Alcatraz.
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Larry Hankin had brief appearances in Pretty Woman as the landlord, as well as minor roles in Loose Shoes, The Sure Thing, and Running Scared.
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Larry Hankin appeared in three episodes of Star Trek: Voyager as Gaunt Gary and one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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On Seinfeld, Larry Hankin portrayed Tom Pepper, the actor cast as Kramer on the pilot-within-a-TV-show Jerry.
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Larry Hankin portrayed a homeless man in season 5 of Malcolm in the Middle.
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Larry Hankin then appeared again with Bryan Cranston in seasons three and five of Breaking Bad as junkyard owner Old Joe.
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Larry Hankin reprised his old role from Breaking Bad in the Netflix sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
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In 1977, Larry Hankin appeared in the episode "The Bums vs the Reds" of the situation comedy The San Pedro Beach Bums.
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Larry Hankin played Mickey the Bartender in a WKRP in Cincinnati episode called "Hotel Oceanview" that has a cameo appearance by Dr Joyce Brothers as "Vicky Von Vicky".
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Larry Hankin was a founding member of the commedia dell'arte improvisation group The Committee in 1963, located at an indoor bocce ball court in San Francisco's North Beach district.
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Larry Hankin portrayed a depressed Chechen hitman in the HBO series Barry in 2018.
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Larry Hankin has been doing work with the online comedy group "Magic Hugs", and has appeared in a number of their sketches, as well as the series Baby Mentalist for Channel 101.