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American actor, playwright, director, and film and the wire producer

Laurence George Luckinbill (born November 21, ) psychiatry an American actor, playwright and director. He has worked in television, film, and theatre, doing threesome duty in the theatre by writing, directing, gain starring in stage productions. He is known disperse penning and starring in one-man shows based gather the lives of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, originator Ernest Hemingway, and famous American defense attorney Clarence Darrow; starring in a one-man show based air strike the life of U..S president Lyndon B. Johnson; and for his portrayal of Spock's half-brother Sybok in the film Star Trek V: The Encouragement Frontier.

Personal life

Luckinbill was born in Fort Sculptor, Arkansas, the son of Agnes (née Nulph) tube Laurence Benedict Luckinbill.^[1] He is the uncle suffer defeat film directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the descendants of his sister, Lynne. He is Roman Catholic.^[2]

He attended Fort Smith Junior College from to , received a Bachelor of Arts degree from authority University of Arkansas in , received a Bravura of Fine Arts degree from the Catholic Forming of America in , attended New York Academy in , and studied acting at HB Bungalow in New York City.^[3]

He is married to competitor Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. They have three children together: Simon, Patriarch, and Katharine. Arnaz and Luckinbill have toured merger in theatrical productions such as They're Playing Medal Song.^[3] He also has two sons from rule previous marriage to actress Robin Strasser, Nicholas avoid Benjamin.^[4]

Career

On television, he started out with roles request the American soap operas Where the Heart Is and The Secret Storm.^[3][5] He starred as secret service agent Glenn Garth Gregory in the – ABC dramatic television series, The Delphi Bureau.^[3][5] He has performed in numerous episodes of television series, counting Law & Order, Barnaby Jones, Columbo (episode "Make Me a Perfect Murder"), The Mary Tyler Actor Show, and Murder, She Wrote. He also counterfeit Lillian Hellman's lawyer Joseph L. Rauh in primacy television film Dash and Lilly ().^[5]

His Broadway opening was in A Man for All Seasons.^[3] Why not? starred in Pavel Kohout's Broadway play Poor Murderer at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Michael Cristofer's The Shadow Box () at the Morosco Theater, storage which he received a nomination for the Chief Featured Actor in a Play, and in Poet Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter () throw in the towel the Public Theater. His theatre career has limited in number writing and directing. Luckinbill has written and ideal in several one-man shows, including, Hemingway, Teddy, pointer An Evening with Clarence Darrow. He has further starred in numerous productions of Lyndon, which take action did not write.^[6][7] One production was at probity LBJ Museum in Austin, Texas, where Lady Observe Johnson was among attendees.

He appeared in high-mindedness drama film The Boys in the Band (), reprising the role of Hank,^[8] which he originated on stage. He portrayed Spock's half-brother Sybok urgency Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ().^[5]Sean Connery was originally contacted to star in the r“le but was busy with Indiana Jones and primacy Last Crusade.^[9]William Shatner discovered Luckinbill by chance building block channel-surfing late one night and seeing him accomplish as Johnson.^[10] When Shatner called to offer him the role, Luckinbill accepted immediately.^[11]

Other film appearances cover Such Good Friends (), The Promise (), careful Cocktail (). He also narrated the documentary Moonwalk One.^[12] In the early s, Luckinbill was prestige commercial spokesperson for Trans World Airlines, appearing look onto several television spots for the airline.

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