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Leonard Harris is a Actor born on 27 september 1929
Leonard Harris (September 27, 1929 – August 28, 2011) was an American critic, author, and actor. He played Senator Charles Palantine in the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver and the mayor in Hero at Large.
Leonard Jerome Harris was born in the Bronx on Sept. 27, 1929. He graduated from City College and served in the Army at Fort Dix during the Korean War. In 1961 he married Mary Ann Wurth. They divorced in 1973. He also had homes in Stanfordville, N.Y., and West Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr. Harris began his career writing obituaries and book reviews for The Hartford Courant in 1958. In 1966 he became a culture critic at WCBS-TV in New York City, a position he held until 1974. He had three novels published and worked as a television writer later in his career. He served on the Tony Award Nominating Committee in the later 1980s and early 1990s.
Mr. Harris also played the mayor in a 1980 romantic comedy, “Hero at Large.” He wrote three novels published in his lifetme. His first, “The Masada Plan,” was called “gripping, fast-moving, expertly engineered” by the novelist Meyer Levin in The New York Times Book Review. A fourth novel was published posthumously.
He died on August 28, 2011 in Hartford, Connecticut, aged 81, from complications of pneumonia.
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Birth name Leonard Jerome Harris
Birth 27 september 1929
Death 28 august 2011 (at 81 years)
Birth 27 september 1929
Death 28 august 2011 (at 81 years)
Leonard Harris (September 27, 1929 – August 28, 2011) was an American critic, author, and actor. He played Senator Charles Palantine in the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver and the mayor in Hero at Large.
Leonard Jerome Harris was born in the Bronx on Sept. 27, 1929. He graduated from City College and served in the Army at Fort Dix during the Korean War. In 1961 he married Mary Ann Wurth. They divorced in 1973. He also had homes in Stanfordville, N.Y., and West Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr. Harris began his career writing obituaries and book reviews for The Hartford Courant in 1958. In 1966 he became a culture critic at WCBS-TV in New York City, a position he held until 1974. He had three novels published and worked as a television writer later in his career. He served on the Tony Award Nominating Committee in the later 1980s and early 1990s.
Mr. Harris also played the mayor in a 1980 romantic comedy, “Hero at Large.” He wrote three novels published in his lifetme. His first, “The Masada Plan,” was called “gripping, fast-moving, expertly engineered” by the novelist Meyer Levin in The New York Times Book Review. A fourth novel was published posthumously.
He died on August 28, 2011 in Hartford, Connecticut, aged 81, from complications of pneumonia.
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Hero at Large (1980)
, 1h38Directed by Martin Davidson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about television, Superhero films
Actors John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Allan Rich, Harry Bellaver
Roles Mayor
Rating59%
Steve Nichols is a struggling actor in New York City who takes the job posing as comic-book hero Captain Avenger at comics stores and conventions. He finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger. The costume is for a film he is hired to promote, but Nichols decides to continue being a superhero and discovers that the superhero life is more complex than he initially thought.
Taxi Driver (1976)
, 1h49Directed by Martin Scorsese, Todd Phillips
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Erotic thriller films, Auto-justice
Actors Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd
Roles Charles Palantine
Rating81%
Travis Bickle, an honorably discharged U.S. Marine, is a lonely and depressed man in New York City. He becomes a taxi driver to cope with chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the boroughs of New York City. He also spends time in seedy porn theaters and keeps a diary. Travis becomes infatuated with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. After watching her interact with fellow worker Tom through her window, Travis enters to volunteer as a pretext to talk to her, and takes her out for coffee. On a later date, he takes her to see a Swedish sex education film, which offends her, and she goes home alone. His attempts at reconciliation by sending flowers are rebuffed, so he berates her at the campaign office, before being kicked out by Tom.