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Larry Cedar

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Larry Cedar
Born (1955-03-06) March 6, 1955 (age 69)
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA, MFA)
OccupationActor
Years active1978–present

Larry Frank Cedar (born March 6, 1955) is an American voice, film and television actor, best known as one of the players of the Children's Television Workshop mathematics show Square One TV on PBS from 1987 to 1994. He played Max, Alex the Butcher's assistant, in a series of commercials for Kroger in 1989. He is also known for playing Leon, the opium-addicted thief and faro dealer, in the acclaimed HBO series Deadwood.

Life and career

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Cedar's professional acting career did not begin until shortly after his admission to Hastings Law School when, on an impulse, he decided to audition for, and was accepted into the MFA Theater program at UCLA, from which he graduated in 1978.[1] While there, he won the Hugh O'Brian Acting Competition award for Best Actor, resulting in a one-year artist development contract with Universal Studios. He went on to star in various television films, and numerous episodics and feature films, including a starring role opposite Rebecca De Mornay in the Ivan Reitman-produced Feds, and an appearance as The Creature on the Wing, opposite John Lithgow, in the Steven Spielberg remake, Twilight Zone: The Movie, directed by George Miller. He has also won an L.A. Theater Alliance Ovation Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Other actors in Cedar's family include Jon Cedar and George Cedar.

Cedar spent six seasons in New York starring in the award-winning PBS series Square One TV, and later starred in 40 episodes of the Fox television series A.J.'s Time Travelers. A veteran stage performer, he appeared in the one-man play Billy Bishop Goes to War at the Colony Theatre. He has been nominated for two Los Angeles Theater Alliance Ovation awards for his performances in Anything Goes (as Lord Oakley) opposite Rachel York, and in She Loves Me (as Sipos, for which he won Best Featured Actor in a Musical). His other stage work includes portraying Hoagy Carmichael in Hoagy, Bix, and Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhaus at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum; as Vernon opposite Lea Thompson in They're Playing Our Song; and as Secretary Thompson in 1776 opposite Roger Rees.

In August 2008, Cedar appeared in Towelhead, the directorial debut of Alan Ball (creator of Six Feet Under). He co-starred opposite Adrien Brody as the demented Chester Sinclair in the Ben Affleck/Diane Lane noir feature film Hollywoodland, directed by Allen Coulter, and recurred for three seasons as Leon, the opium-addicted card dealer and thief, in the David Milch helmed HBO series Deadwood opposite Powers Boothe and Ian McShane. His independent film work includes the award-winning short Tel Aviv, the science fiction thriller Forecast, and the full-length horror film Midnight Son. He has also done voice-over work for hundreds of commercials, cartoon series, and video games.

In 2010, Cedar had a role in The Crazies, playing Principal Ben Sandborn. From 2011 to 2012 he portrayed Cornelius Hawthorne, father of Chevy Chase's character Pierce Hawthorne, on 2 episodes of Community.

Cedar is active in the Los Angeles theatre community. In 2013 he starred in King Lear with The Porters of Hellsgate.[2] For the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival, he developed the script for Orwellian: Rants, Recollections, and Cautionary Tales From The Works of Eric Arthur Blair, which is a one-hour adaptation of three works by George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The play was produced by The Porters of Hellsgate in conjunction with the Orwell estate.[3]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie Gremlin Segment: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
1984 Dreamscape Snakeman
1987 The Hidden Brem
1988 Feds Howard Butz
1989 C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. Graves
1992 Demonic Toys Peterson
1992 The Babe Radio Announcer
1996 Pinocchio's Revenge District Attorney
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Car Rental Agent
2002 The Master of Disguise Businessman
2004 Paparazzi Charlie
2005 Constantine Vermin Man
2004 The Gingerdead Man Jimmy Dean
2006 The Ant Bully Ant #8 (voice) [4]
2006 Hollywoodland Chester Sinclair
2007 Towelhead Photographer
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets Control Room Guard
2010 The Crazies Ben Sandborn
2014 Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? Floyd Ferris
2014 The Snow Queen 2 Eric (voice) English dub[4]
2015 Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Thomas Curry (voice) Direct-to-video[4]
2015 Justice League: Gods and Monsters Pete Ross (voice) Direct-to-video[4]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1978 Battlestar Galactica Cadet Shields Episode: "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero"
1979 The Omega Connection Roger Pike Television film
1984 W*A*L*T*E*R Zipkin Failed television pilot
1987–1991 Square One Television Various characters 29 episodes
1990–1991 Get a Life Ted 2 episodes
1991 Saved by the Bell Steven Jameson Episode: "Mystery Weekend"
1994 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Nydrom Episode: "Armageddon Game"
1995–1997 Freakazoid! Oblongata, Anton Mohans, Hans, Bernt, Chip Clavicle (voice) 5 episodes[4]
1995–1998 Pinky and the Brain Various voices 7 episodes[4]
1996 Star Trek: Voyager Tersa Episode: "Alliances"
1996 Animaniacs Andrew Lloyd Webber (voice) Episode: "Dot's Entertainment"[4]
1997 Cow and Chicken French Guy, English Guy (voice) Episode: "Law of Gravity"[4]
1997–1999 Superman: The Animated Series First Mate, Restaurant Owner (voice) 2 episodes[4]
1999 Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain Salesman (voice) Episode: "A Walk in the Park"[4]
1999 The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries Potter, Conductor (voice) 2 episodes[4]
1999–2000 Batman Beyond Pilot, Manor Cop (voice) 2 episodes[4]
2001 Samurai Jack Mr. Pibbles, Doorman (voice) Episode: "Jack and the Gangsters"[4]
2002 The Zeta Project Gate Guard (voice) Episode: "Wired"[4]
2002 Star Trek: Enterprise Tessic Episode: "Marauders"
2004–2006 Deadwood Leon 24 episodes
2005 Stargate SG-1 Ori Prior #2 Episode: "Origin"
2005 Without a Trace Ray Pallidies Episode: "Freefall"
2006 Boston Legal Robert Hooper Episode: "The Cancer Man Can"
2006 Charmed Xar Episode: "Engaged and Confused"
2006 Ben 10 Howell Wainwright, Head Scientist (voice) Episode: "A Small Problem"[4]
2006–2009 Two and a Half Men Policeman, Announcer 2 episodes
2007 The Riches Karl Episode: "This Is Your Brain on Drugs"
2007 State of Mind Larry Carson Episode: "Between Here and There"
2011–2012 Community Cornelius Hawthorne 2 episodes
2017 The Last Tycoon Harold Grife Episode: "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven"
2020 Young Sheldon Lawrence Episode: "A Docent, A Little Lady and a Bouncer Named Dalton"

Video games

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Year Title Role Notes
2002 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 San Francisco Bike Messenger
2003 Tony Hawk's Underground Slave Driver, Tampa Cop, Team Filmer
2003 SOCOM II U.S. Navy SEALs Vandal
2004 Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Additional voices
2004 EverQuest II Various voices
2005 Shadow of Rome Maecanas [4]
2005 Ultimate Spider-Man Additional voices
2006 Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Loki [4]
2011 Star Wars: The Old Republic Additional voices
2012 Hitman: Absolution Edward Wade [4]

References

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  1. ^ "NOTABLE ALUMNI ACTORS". UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  2. ^ "Larry Cedar to Star in The Porters of Hellsgate's King Lear". December 3, 2012. Shakespeare in LA
  3. ^ "Orwellian: Starring Larry Cedar". Hollywood Fringe Festival
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Larry Cedar (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved September 4, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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