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Birthday:

11-21-1934 (90 years)

Birthplace:

Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA

Biography

Laurence Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright and director. He has worked in television, film, and theatre, doing triple duty in the theatre by writing, directing, and starring in stage productions. He is probably best known for penning and starring in one-man shows based upon the lives of United States President Theodore Roosevelt, author Ernest Hemingway, and famous American defense attorney Clarence Darrow; starring in a one-man show based upon the life of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson; and for his portrayal of Spock's half-brother Sybok in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

Luckinbill is married to actress Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. They have three children together: Simon, Joseph, and Katharine. Arnaz and Luckinbill have toured together in theatrical productions such as They're Playing Our Song. He also has two sons from his previous marriage to actress Robin Strasser, Nicholas and Benjamin.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Act like Sybok

event1989 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.

See China and Die

Act like Dr. Glickman

event1981 top_panel_open

A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.

Messenger of Death

Act like Homer Foxx

event1988 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any comment on the case, is taken into protective custody. Journalist Smith persuades him to help him in the investigation - and finds out about economic motives for the murder.

The Boys in the Band

Act like Hank

event1970 star_border 7 top_panel_open

A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game, unleashing dormant and unspoken emotions.

Death Sentence

Act like Don Davies

event1974 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband.

Corky

Act like Wayne Nesbitt

event1972 star_border 4 top_panel_open

A country boy wants to make it big as a stockcar racer.

The Promise

Act like Dr. Peter Gregson

event1979 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

Such Good Friends

Act like Richard

event1971 star_border 4.9 top_panel_open

Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations.

To Heal a Nation

Act like Senator Bob Mathias

event1988 star_border 4 top_panel_open

The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky, he begins to find a new life for himself, and a personal goal when he agrees to begin a determined campaign to raise funds for a veteran's memorial.

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

Act like Gov. Hal Hoffman

event1976 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.

The Delphi Bureau

Act like Glenn Garth Gregory

event1972 top_panel_open

A government agent with a photographic memory is assigned to solve the disappearance of an entire fleet of old Air Force planes. Pilot for short-lived TV series

Murder Impossible

Act like Patch

event1974 top_panel_open

A scientist is murdered and his new invention is stolen and held for ransom.

One Terrific Guy

Act like Jim Burton

event1986 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A highly respected and revered baseball coach has been accused by a female student of conducting some kind of research that borders on sexual molestation. When her parents decide to report him to the authorities. They are held in contempt, because the community can't believe that this wonderful man could do the things that they are accusing him of.

Not for Publication

Act like Mayor Franklyn

event1984 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

A tabloid reporter and her new photographer, who've recently started working for the mayor of New York City, stumble upon evidence of conspiracy and political corruption that may involve their beloved mayor.

Lyndon Johnson

Act like Lyndon Baines Johnson

event1987 top_panel_open

A one-man show about President Lyndon Johnson.

Winner Take All

Act like Bill Anderson

event1975 star_border 7 top_panel_open

The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.

Ike

Act like Maj. Richard Arnold

event1979 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.

Cocktail

Act like Richard Mooney

event1988 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.

The Money

Act like Richard Banks

event1976 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

A prominent businessman's children become the target of a young, unemployed man, who sees them as his ticket to wealth.

Lights Out

Act like Sabina's second Husband Howard

event1972 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill. This was a pilot for a proposed but unrealized TV series to be titled "Light Out!," based on the much earlier radio program of the same name.

The November Plan

Act like Noel Crosman

event1977 top_panel_open

A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.

And the Bones Came Together

Act like Robert Cooper

event1973 star_border 3 top_panel_open

When an elderly man is forced from his home in the name of urban renewal, he invokes Jewish mysticism against the man he deems responsible.

The Five Forty-Eight

Act like John Blake

event1979 top_panel_open

An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him and forces him to confront the squalor of his life.

Moonwalk One

Act like Narrator

event1972 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

This documentary by Theo Kamecke from 1970 gives an indepth and profound look at the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. NASA footage is interspersed with reactions to the mission around the world as the film captures the intensity as well of the philosophical significance of the event. Won special award at Cannes. Written by Adam Bernstein .

The Exonerated

Act like Prosecutor

event2006 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.

Panic on the 5:22

Act like Lawrence Lewis

event1974 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.

The Mating Season

Act like Harry McClain

event1980 top_panel_open

They say opposites attract, but could a romance possibly develop between an attorney, successful at work but unlucky in love, and a divorced man whose main interest is birdwatching?

Lincoln

Act like Joshua Speed (voice)

event1992 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

Dash and Lilly

Act like Joseph Rauh

event1999 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry, but deeply in love, the two engaged in many affairs and battled alcoholism.

Murder, She Wrote

Act like Howard Crane (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Columbo

Act like Mark McAndrews (1 ep.)

event1971 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Law & Order

Act like Cyrus Weaver (1 ep.)

event1990 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

The Rookies

(1 ep.)

event1972 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.

The F.B.I.

Act like Danzer (1 ep.)

event1965 star_border 5.5 top_panel_open

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

Return of the Saint

Act like Bruno Walters (1 ep.)

event1978 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

Hotel

(1 ep.)

event1982 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.

Delphi Bureau

(8 ep.)

event1972 top_panel_open

The Delphi Bureau is an American dramatic television series aired in the United States by ABC as one of three elements of The Men, a wheel series shown as part of its 1972-73 schedule. The Delphi Bureau starred Laurence Luckinbill as Glenn Garth Gregory, a man with a photographic memory, whose obscure United States Government "agency" ostensibly did obscure research for the President of the United States. Its actual role was counter-espionage and its main operative was Gregory, whose liaison with the group's unnamed superiors was Sybil Van Lowreen, a Washington D.C. society hostess. A framing design for each episode involved a limerick, a single new line of which was added for each segment of the show, until the entire limerick was completed in the final segment.

The Secret Storm

(319 ep.)

event1954 star_border 3.7 top_panel_open

The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life. Gloria Monty of General Hospital fame was a longtime director of the series. Like most CBS Soap Operas of the time such as The Guiding Light and As the World Turns The Secret Storm was filmed, and later taped, in New York at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 52 Street.

Harry O

(1 ep.)

event1974 star_border 4.6 top_panel_open

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

Where the Heart Is

(213 ep.)

event1969 star_border 3 top_panel_open

Where the Heart Is was an American soap opera telecast on the CBS television network from September 8, 1969 to March 23, 1973. Created by Lou Scofield and Margaret DePriest, the program ran for 25 minutes, the remaining five minutes of its timeslot ceded to a CBS news break. Scofield and DePriest were the original head writers. A year after the soap’s premiere, they were succeeded by Pat Falken Smith. In 1972, Smith was replaced by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer. The series was produced by Tom Donovan and directed by Richard Dunlap.

City of Angels

(3 ep.)

event1976 star_border 6 top_panel_open

City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files. American mystery novelist Max Allan Collins has called City of Angels "the best private eye series ever."

Barnaby Jones

Act like Elliot Rexford / Lt. Damon Maxwell (2 ep.)

event1973 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".

Bonanza

Act like Barnabas Freed (1 ep.)

event1959 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

The Mike Douglas Show

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event1961 star_border 5.1 top_panel_open

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The Bold Ones: The Senator

Act like Chancellor Steinitz (1 ep.)

event1970 star_border 3 top_panel_open

The Bold Ones: The Senator is an American political television drama series that aired on NBC from 1970 through 1971, lasting for nine episodes. The series stars Hal Holbrook as Senator Hays Stowe. The Senator was part of The Bold Ones, a rotating series of dramas that also included The New Doctors, The Lawyers, and The Protectors. As a group of dramas, The Bold Ones was nominated for nine Emmy Awards and won five awards. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe for best Drama TV Show. The series was based on an earlier television movie, A Clear and Present Danger.

Dan August

Act like Arthur Coleman (1 ep.)

event1970 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Dan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series stars Burt Reynolds as the title character. Reruns of Dan August aired in prime time on CBS from May to October 1973 and from April to June 1975.

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