Larry Laverty


Laurence Arthur Laverty is an American actor known for his roles as Larry Davies in The Hamiltons and Ammiel in The Sanguinarian. Laverty made television guest appearances in Judging Amy, The Practice, Breaking Vegas, and had a supporting role in Gus Van Sant's Elephant.
His performance on The Tonight Show led to a number of appearances on daytime soap operas.
As of 2014, he has appeared in more than 65 films, including his roles in Passions with Juliet Mills, in Dead Tone with Rutger Hauer, in Further North, The Wylds, with Tony Todd in Cut, with Jeffrey Weissman and Michelle Page in American Disciples and with Richard Brake in Extinction in 2012 and with Brad Dourif in The Control Group.
In 2017 Laverty co-stars in the film Radio Dreams.

Early life

Laverty was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in nearby Oakland. His father was an engineer and a veteran of World War II, and his mother was a bookkeeper and historian. Laverty was an Eagle Scout, and graduated from Oakland's Skyline High School. He then moved to Kuna, Idaho to live on the family farm and worked a variety of jobs as he earned two college degrees from Boise State University, including an acting class.

Career

Laverty performed on stage in a number of plays and musicals while studying acting with the American Conservatory Theater, The Groundlings, and Second City. Some of Laverty's earliest appearances were in two early films by Irish filmmaker Dermot Tynan, A Talk in the Dark and The Biscuit Eaters. Within the same year, he acted in a Canadian movie production, Icetime, with Canadian Jackson Davies.
Laverty has acted in a number of horror films. He played in the 2007 film Dead Tone in a supporting role, and the next year appeared in the Antony De Gennaro film Son of Terror and the Phillip Grasso film ChainSmoke.
In 2010 he was hired to act in the cast of the film Us.
As the son of a veteran of World War II, Laverty was involved in the production of a documentary film, Legacy, about the World War II generation that involves lengthy filmed interviews of about 20 veterans.

Photography

Laverty began photography at the age of 5.
From 2010-2015, Laverty images were published in the MacArthur Metro, a newspaper serving Oakland, California, for which he also was a columnist.
Beginning in 2015 onward, his images of wildlife in Africa were published by numerous international wildlife conservation organizations.
In 2017, he began taking speaking engagements that focused on the plight of the African Elephant, engagements that revolved around the presentation of his images secured while spending 6 months in Africa with elephants.
In 2018, he is preparing a table-top book on the African Elephant for publication entitled Elephant Sunrise.