Leland Crooke is an American actor from stage and film. He is known from several stage plays and films by David Beaird.
Career
In February 1980, Crooke gave his stage debut in the play Bal (Richard Nelson's loose adaptation of
Bertolt Brecht's play
Baal with
James Belushi in title role) which was staged at the
Goodman Theatre in
Chicago.
[Otis L. Guernsey: The Best Plays of 1979-1980. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1981. ] In October of the same year he was cast as Swiss Cheese, the youngest son of Mother Courage in Sharon Ott's adaption of Brecht's play
Mother Courage and Her Children at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
[ Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History Mother Courage and Her Children] In 1981 he was seen as Lackey (a musketeer) in Cyrano de Bergerac at the same theatre.
In 1984, he met director, screenwriter, and playwright
David Beaird with whom he collaborated at the films
The Party Animal (1984),
My Chauffeur (1986),
It Takes Two,
Pass the Ammo (both 1988),
Scorchers (1991), and
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005). Crooke was also seen in Beaird's stage plays
Scorchers (1985 in the role of Jumper at the Equity Waiver Theater in Los Angeles)
[ LA Times: The Little Play That Could] and
900 Oneonta (1999 in the role of Dandy at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles). In addition Crooke played guest roles in television series including
Key West (created by Beaird),
Matlock,
Melrose Place,
ER,
,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
JAG,
Angel, and
Charmed.
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