Born: November 25, 1947

American actor John Larroquette began gaining public attention as a disc jockey. For several years, he paid the bills with TV and movie voiceovers, notably as the (uncredited) narrator of Tobe Hooper's The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre (1974). Larroquette started getting on-camera assignments in the mid 1970s, making his network TV bow in the role of Dr. Paul Herman in the prime time weekly Doctors' Hospital (1975-76); this was followed by a two-year stint as Robert Anderson on the Robert_Conrad TV vehicle Black_Sheep_Squadron (1976-78). From 1984 through 1992, Larroquette portrayed assistant DA and self-styled ladies man Dan Fielding on the popular sitcom Night_Court, a role which won him four Emmy awards. In 1994, the actor starred in his own series, The_John_Larroquette_Show, playing an erudite recovering alcoholic who manages a St. Louis bus depot. He has also appeared in several forgettable movie roles, mostly in madcap comedies. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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