Laurence Luckinbill
Acting • Born 1934-11-21
Biography
Laurence Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright and director. He has worked in television, film, and theatre, doing triple duty in the theatre by writing, directing, and starring in stage productions. He is probably best known for penning and starring in one-man shows based upon the lives of United States President Theodore Roosevelt, author Ernest Hemingway, and famous American defense attorney Clarence Darrow; starring in a one-man show based upon the life of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson; and for his portrayal of Spock's half-brother Sybok in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Luckinbill is married to actress Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. They have three children together: Simon, Joseph, and Katharine. Arnaz and Luckinbill have toured together in theatrical productions such as They're Playing Our Song. He also has two sons from his previous marriage to actress Robin Strasser, Nicholas and Benjamin.
Filmography
50 credits
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Movie • 1989
Sybok
See China and Die
Movie • 1981
Dr. Glickman
Messenger of Death
Movie • 1988
Homer Foxx
The Boys in the Band
Movie • 1970
Hank
Death Sentence
Movie • 1974
Don Davies
Corky
Movie • 1972
Wayne Nesbitt
The Promise
Movie • 1979
Dr. Peter Gregson
Such Good Friends
Movie • 1971
Richard
To Heal a Nation
Movie • 1988
Senator Bob Mathias
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Movie • 1976
Gov. Hal Hoffman
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
Movie • 1972
Glenn Garth Gregory
Murder Impossible
Movie • 1974
Patch
One Terrific Guy
Movie • 1986
Jim Burton
Not for Publication
Movie • 1984
Mayor Franklyn
Lyndon Johnson
Movie • 1987
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Winner Take All
Movie • 1975
Bill Anderson
Ike
Movie • 1979
Maj. Richard Arnold
Cocktail
Movie • 1988
Richard Mooney
The Money
Movie • 1976
Richard Banks
Lights Out
Movie • 1972
Sabina's second Husband Howard
The November Plan
Movie • 1977
Noel Crosman
And the Bones Came Together
Movie • 1973
Robert Cooper
The Five Forty-Eight
Movie • 1979
John Blake
Moonwalk One
Movie • 1972
Narrator
The Exonerated
Movie • 2006
Prosecutor
Panic on the 5:22
Movie • 1974
Lawrence Lewis
The Mating Season
Movie • 1980
Harry McClain
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
Joshua Speed (voice)
Dash and Lilly
Movie • 1999
Joseph Rauh
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Howard Crane
Columbo
TV • 1971
Mark McAndrews
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Cyrus Weaver
The Rookies
TV • 1972
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Danzer
Return of the Saint
TV • 1978
Bruno Walters
Hotel
TV • 1982
Delphi Bureau
TV • 1972
Glenn Garth Gregory
The Secret Storm
TV • 1954
Harry O
TV • 1974
Where the Heart Is
TV • 1969
City of Angels
TV • 1976
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Lt. Steve Warren
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Elliot Rexford / Lt. Damon Maxwell
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Barnabas Freed
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Sgt. Cooper
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
John Galloway
The Bold Ones: The Senator
TV • 1970
Chancellor Steinitz
Dan August
TV • 1970
Arthur Coleman
Ike
TV • 1979
Maj. Richard Arnold