John Larroquette

Emmy Award-winning American actor John Larroquette currently appears on the television show Boston Legal as Carl Sack. Larroquette gained a great deal of attention playing a lawyer earlier in his career with his role as the slimy, lecherous prosecutor Dan Fielding on the NBC sitcom Night Court.

Though Larroquette had several small film and guest TV roles in the early 1980s, most notably as a Klingon soldier in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, he first became prominent as a morally lax lawyer on the television sitcom Night Court. Larroquette won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series four times in a row, and after the fourth time asked that his name be removed from consideration for the award. He has played a lawyer of a different stripe as crusader Mike McBride in the McBride series of TV movies for Hallmark, four of which he has also directed. He also won an Emmy Award for a guest turn as an accused murderer in The Practice. In 2007, he joined the cast of The Practice spinoff Boston Legal as lawyer Carl Sack. He has also played a White House lawyer in a guest spot on The West Wing.

NBC sitcom The John Larroquette Show, a dark comedy about a recovering alcoholic, achieved critical acclaim and a cult following.

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• November 25, 1947: Born

• 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: IMDb | Mahalo | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1981 Stripes: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1984 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock: IMDb

• 1984-1992 Night Court: IMDb | Mahalo | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1987 Blind Date: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1993-1996 The John Larroquette Show: IMDb

• 1997-2002 The Practice: IMDb

• 1999 The West Wing: IMDb Mahalo | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2000 The 10th Kingdom: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: IMDb | Mahalo | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2006 Southland Tales: IMDb | Mahalo | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2006 House M.D.: IMDb | Mahalo

• 2007-Present Boston Legal: IMDb | Mahalo | Rotten Tomatoes