Damien Leake
Acting • Born 1952-08-12
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.
Filmography
52 credits
Prison Break: The Final Break
Movie • 2009
Detective Marlin
He Said, She Said
Movie • 1991
Ray, the Technical Director
Collision Course
Movie • 1989
Tenement Man
Mighty Joe Young
Movie • 1998
Cop
The Experiment
Movie • 2010
Govenor
The Great Debaters
Movie • 2007
Wilson
Serpico
Movie • 1973
Joey
Death Wish
Movie • 1974
Alley Mugger #2 (uncredited)
Born on the Fourth of July
Movie • 1989
Patient - VA Hospital
Sea of Love
Movie • 1989
Ernest Lee
Apocalypse Now
Movie • 1979
Machine Gunner
Separate But Equal
Movie • 1991
Dr. Kenneth Clark
Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man
Movie • 1972
Hitch
Bad Twin
Movie • 2016
Dr. Martine
Highlander
Movie • 1986
Tony
Breaking In
Movie • 2018
Isaac
The Killing Floor
Movie • 1984
Frank Custer
The Devil's Own
Movie • 1997
Art Fisher
The Cotton Club
Movie • 1984
Bub Jewett
Last Rites
Movie • 1988
Detective Brown
88 Minutes
Movie • 2007
The Judge
Sleepwalker
Movie • 2017
The Bad Twin
Movie • 2016
Dr. Martine
Looking for Richard
Movie • 1996
Self
Ghost Whisperer
TV • 2005
Dr. Chiles
Ghost Whisperer
TV • 2005
Doctor Chiles
Greek
TV • 2007
Professor Sommerfield
Good Girls
TV • 2018
Pastor Collins
The Rookie: Feds
TV • 2022
Agent Bob Telford
Men of a Certain Age
TV • 2009
Roy
The Mentalist
TV • 2008
High Powered Attorney
Married... with Children
TV • 1987
Principal Alburton
Scandal
TV • 2012
Judge Leo Theroux
How to Get Away with Murder
TV • 2014
Dr. Healy
CSI: Miami
TV • 2002
Judge Berber
S.W.A.T.
TV • 2017
Wesley
NCIS
TV • 2003
Henry Bennett
Dollhouse
TV • 2009
Minister
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Dr. Ted Tatum
Strong Medicine
TV • 2000
Principal
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Chaplain
The Cosby Show
TV • 1984
Andy Anderson
Crossing Jordan
TV • 2001
Otis
Messiah
TV • 2020
George
Family Law
TV • 1999
Separate but Equal
TV • 1991
Dr. Kenneth Clark
1923
TV • 2022
Marvin
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Dr. Moss
Eleventh Hour
TV • 2008
Dr. Sidney Hayward
Boston Legal
TV • 2004
Referee
The Baxters
TV • 2024
Pastor Mark
Saving Grace
TV • 2007
Calvin Revo