Laurence Luckinbill

Laurence Luckinbill

Nacimiento : 1934-11-21, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA

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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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Laurence Luckinbill

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The Exonerated
Prosecutor
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Dash and Lilly
Joseph Rauh
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.
Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie
Executive Producer
Emmy Award-Winning Special Desi and Lucy's daughter, Lucie Arnaz, hosts this emotional and honest glimpse at the extraordinary lives of her world-famous parents, highlighted by never-before-seen color family movies along with insightful interviews from family members, business associates and celebrity friends such as Bob Hope. Winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special, LUCY & DESI: A HOME MOVIE is a sensitive and absorbing documentary that details the circumstances which brought the immortal twosome together and ultimately drove them apart.
Lincoln
Joshua Speed (voice)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Star Trek V: La última frontera
Sybok
La nave Enterprise se dirige al planeta Nimbus III, para negociar la liberación de unos embajadores secuestrados. Allí descubrirán que el jefe de la banda es un pariente de Spock, obsesionado por encontrar el planeta que es considerado la fuente de la vida.
Mensajero de la muerte
Homer Foxx
Garret Smith es un periodista que investiga un caso de asesinato múltiple en un pueblo de Colorado: las víctimas son los miembros de una familia de mormones. La policía sospecha que el móvil es de carácter religioso, pero Smith va descubriendo poco a poco la verdad y también las oscuras razones que han llevado al asesino a proceder así.
Cocktail
Richard Mooney
Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise), un joven ambicioso recién licenciado del ejército, trabaja como camarero en un local de copas de Nueva York para costearse los estudios. Gracias a los consejos de su jefe Douglas Coughlin (Brian Brown), se convierte en la atracción del local. Pero él aspira a abrir su propio local con el nombre de "Coktails y Sueños". Para conseguir el dinero necesario se va a Jamaica a trabajar de camarero. Allí conoce a Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue), una ingenua joven que está de vacaciones en la isla.
To Heal a Nation
Senator Bob Mathias
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.
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson
A one-man show about President Lyndon Johnson.
One Terrific Guy
Jim Burton
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
Mayor Franklyn
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.
See China and Die
Dr. Glickman
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.
The Mating Season
Harry McClain
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?
The Five Forty-Eight
John Blake
The Five Forty-Eight, drawn from a Cheever story about the fictional New York suburb of Shady Hill, concerns an advertising man, John Blake (Laurence Luckinbill), who is emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him. His disturbed secretary, Miss Dent (Mary Beth Hurt), whom he has seduced and then fired and discarded, pursues him harrowingly, and in a final scene in which she holds him at gunpoint in a field beyond the Shady Hill railroad station, she forces him to confront the squalor of his life.
Ike
Maj. Richard Arnold
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.
The Promise
Dr. Peter Gregson
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.
The November Plan
Noel Crosman
A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.
The Money
Richard Banks
A prominent businessman's children become the target of a young, unemployed man, who sees them as his ticket to wealth.
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Gov. Hal Hoffman
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.
Winner Take All
Bill Anderson
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Panic on the 5:22
Lawrence Lewis
Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.
Death Sentence
Don Davies
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.
Murder Impossible
Patch
A scientist is murdered and his new invention is stolen and held for ransom.
And the Bones Came Together
Robert Cooper
When a graveyard caretaker is fired from his job, his exacts a terrifying supernatural vengeance.
Moonwalk One
Narrator
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 Delphi Bureau
Glenn Garth Gregory
A government agent with a photographic memory is assigned to solve the disappearance of an entire fleet of old Air Force planes.
Lights Out
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.
Extraña amistad
Richard
Adaptación de una novela de Louis Gould, en la que Otto Preminger proponía una trama a medio camino entre el drama sombrío y la comedia negra. El marido de Julie es sometido a una intervención quirúrgica, pero una complicación inesperada lo deja en estado de coma. Durante su estancia en el hospital, ella descubre que él le ha sido infiel en reiteradas ocasiones. Sintiéndose profundamente humillada, decide vengarse seduciendo a los amigos de su marido.
Los chicos de la banda
Hank
Adaptación de una exitosa obra de Mart Crowley. Nueve chicos se reúnen para una fiesta de cumpleaños; ocho de ellos se declaran abiertamente gays, y el noveno sostiene que no lo es. Primer film con homosexuales con final no trágico producido en Hollywood.