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Damien Leake

Acting

Born August 12, 1952 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Damien Leake (born August 12, 1952) is an American actor and record-holding masters track and field athlete. Starting with a role in 1973's Serpico, he has had a continuous career appearing in some 70 motion pictures, plus numerous television and stage acting roles. Through the 1980s he was typecast as a "a tender, sensitive . . . half-crazed killer" including roles in Death Wish and Apocalypse Now. He has branched out to other jobs related to the entertainment industry. He claims to having been a singer, dancer, director, musician, composer, musical director, vocal arranger, playwright, stage fight choreographer and ventriloquist.

Filmography47 titles

The Mentalist

2008as High Powered Attorney

The West Wing

1999as Dr. Ted Tatum

Apocalypse Now

1979as Machine Gunner

1923

2022as Marvin

The Baxters

2024as Pastor Mark

Ghost Whisperer

2005as Doctor Chiles

S.W.A.T.

2017as Wesley

The Killing Floor

1984as Frank Custer

Boston Legal

2004as Referee

Good Girls

2018as Pastor Collins

How to Get Away with Murder

2014as Dr. Healy

Men of a Certain Age

2009as Roy

CSI: Miami

2002as Judge Berber

Married... with Children

1987as Principal Alburton

NCIS

2003as Henry Bennett

Prison Break: The Final Break

2009as Detective Marlin

Serpico

1973as Joey

Strong Medicine

2000as Principal

The Great Debaters

2007as Wilson

Saving Grace

2007as Calvin Revo

Without a Trace

2002as Chaplain

Messiah

2020as George

Scandal

2012as Judge Leo Theroux

Dollhouse

2009as Minister

Nip/Tuck

2003as Dr. Moss

Crossing Jordan

2001as Otis

The Rookie: Feds

2022as Agent Bob Telford

Born on the Fourth of July

1989as Patient - VA Hospital

The Cosby Show

1984as Andy Anderson

Highlander

1986as Tony

Death Wish

1974as Alley Mugger #2 (uncredited)

Looking for Richard

1996as Self

Greek

2007as Professor Sommerfield

Eleventh Hour

2008as Dr. Sidney Hayward

Sea of Love

1989as Ernest Lee

The Cotton Club

1984as Bub Jewett

The Experiment

2010as Govenor

Mighty Joe Young

1998as Cop

The Devil's Own

1997as Art Fisher

Breaking In

2018as Isaac

Separate but Equal

as Dr. Kenneth Clark

He Said, She Said

1991as Ray, the Technical Director

88 Minutes

2007as The Judge

Bad Twin

2016as Dr. Martine

Sleepwalker

2017

Last Rites

1988as Detective Brown

Collision Course

1989as Tenement Man