Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. was born on November 1, 1942, in Lakeville, a small isolated community in the hills of Magoffin County, in eastern Kentucky. He was the son of Edith (Arnett) and Larry Claxton Flynt, a sharecropper. He had a sister named Judy who died in 1951 from leukemia at age five, and a brother, Jimmy, born in 1948. His parents separated when he was ten, and he moved with his mother and brother to Hamlet, Indiana. Flynt ran away from home at age 16 in 1958 and enlisted in the U.S. Army. Discharged a year later, he took odd jobs as a farm picker, dishwasher and manual laborer. Moving on to Dayton, Ohio, he enlisted in the US Navy in 1960 and worked as a radar operator on the USS Enterprise until October 1962. After his discharge in 1964, he was married for a time while trying to open his own bar in Dayton, selling his own moonshine whiskey; he also opened another bar that same year. His next experiment in strip clubs proved more of a success, in particular the Hustler Club which opened in 1968. By 1971 Flynt owned a string of Hustler strip clubs all over Ohio, in Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati and Akron. During that period he had affairs with three strippers, resulting in a child by each of them. By 1973 he owned eight Hustler clubs with annual incomes between $75,000 and $100,000 each. Wanting to expand his empire, he decided to publish his own girlie magazine, "Hustler", named after his clubs. The first issue came out in July 1974 and was instantly a hit, owing to its detailed pornographic descriptions of women. After a few months, however, sales dipped to a low point, resulting in bankruptcy by 1975, although candid photographs of a nude Jacqueline Kennedy--at that time Jackie Kennedy Onassis--published in August 1975 put Hustler back in the national spotlight. Flynt's controversial and unconventional ways earned him both respect and hatred from a broad spectrum of individuals and organizations, including many feminists who found the articles in Hustler misogynist, offensive and demeaning. He continued having affairs with various women, including a model named Althea Leasure (1953-1987), whom he married in August 1976. Charged in February of 1977 with obscenity and organized crime ties, he was tried in Cincinnati and convicted of all charges, although the verdict was later overturned on appeal due to allegations of prosecutorial misconduct and judicial and jury bias. Flynt's legal hassles brought him to the attention of Ruth Carter Stapleton, sister of President Jimmy Carter, who inspired him to make a career turn. Becoming a born-again Christian, Flynt soon included religion in his Hustler issues, which infuriated Christian and religious fundamentalist groups. He abandoned his faith in March 1978 when he was shot by a sniper outside a courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down (as it turned out, the shooter--a neo-Nazi white supremacist named Joseph Paul Franklin took offense at several photo spreads in Hustler depicting black men having simulated sex with white women and stalked Flynt until he had a chance to shoot him). With daily death threats against him, and the police both unwilling and unable to protect him, Flynt moved his publishing company from Ohio to Los Angeles at the end of 1978, living in a huge mansion in Bel Air with Althea. Wracked by constant back pain from internal injuries as a result of the gunshot wounds, and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he lived almost as a recluse, seldom venturing outside his house unless accompanied by several burly, armed-to-the-teeth bodyguards. Addicted to painkillers, Flynt took Valium, Percodan, Percocette, Librium, Demerol, morphine and Dialdud pills and injections on a daily basis. In 1980 he suffered a near-fatal stroke caused by one of several overdoses of his analgesic medications; he recovered but has had speech pronunciation difficulties since. In 1983 he underwent the first of a series of DREZ laser surgeries on his back to repair the damage to the nerve center around his bullet wounds (the second was in 1987, the third in 1994), which slowly cured him of his back pain and his painkiller addiction. Flynt continued his practice of bringing lawsuits against various parties, one of which, in November 1983, involved his ownership of a videotape showing the real nature of the arrest and entrapment of car entrepreneur John DeLorean for drug trafficking. Flynt then (and to this day) refused to disclose how he came to acquire the videotape and was sentenced to 15 months in a mental hospital for contempt of court. During his stay in the hospital, he was clinically diagnosed as having bipolar disorder, which is responsible for his unpredictable verbal outbursts and fits of rage in which he remains on medication to this day. That same month Hustler magazine published an article lampooning Christian fundamentalist televangelist Jerry Falwell, a longtime opponent of Flynt's polices; the article portrayed Falwell as a drunkard who had committed incest with his mother. Flynt was flown to Virginia in December 1984 after Falwell filed a $45-million civil suit against him. After a week-long trial, a jury ruled that Flynt was not liable for the article, but published it deliberately to cause emotional distress, and awarded Falwell $200,000. Flynt took his appeal against the verdict all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in December 1987, and the verdict was overturned two months later. Flynt's marriage to Althea Flynt deteriorated when she was diagnosed with AIDS in 1983, aggravated by her drug addiction. She died in June 1987 at age 33 from drowning in her bathtub following a heroin overdose. Flynt continued running his publishing company, Flynt Publications, in Los Angeles, and to the day of his death, on February 10, 2021, was hated and admired by many.
Larry Francis
Larry Francis is an actor, known for Murder by Television (1935).
Larry Freedman
Larry Freedman is known for Let's Make a Deal (2003), Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story (1993) and Angel City (2023).
Larry French
Larry French was born on November 4, 1951 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Dallas (1978), The Bionic Woman (1976) and The Incredible Hulk (1977). He died on May 28, 2010 in New York City, New York, USA.
Larry Gamell Jr.
Lawrence C. Gamell Jr. ( aka Larry Gamell Jr.) has been on stage since the age of 5, appearing in over a 125 plays and productions. He was the winner of The Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Award in 1993, "For Best Supporting Performance by a Male", for "Nevas Tale", the play directed by Ted Lange and written by Doctor Cliff Harper. He won a 2nd Award the same year from The L.A. Weekly, for "Best Featured Male Performance for the same production. In 1995 he won an "Actors Recognition Award" from the Off-Broadway Theatre in Las Vegas for his portrayal as the lead in "12 Angry Men". In 1997 he won the first ever "Best Actor Award" at the Colsac Theatre Co. for his portrayal as Aaron The Moor in Shakesperes, "Titus and Andronicus". He has appeared in film, television and various commercials over the years. He is The Artistic Director of "The Alkebu-lan Theatre Group", located inside the Alkebu-lan Cultural Center in Pasadena, where he has produced, directed, and performed in various productions as, "Othello", "Master Harold and The Boys", "A Raisin In The Sun", "Having our Say", "Harriet", "The Meeting", "For Colored Girls .." and others for the past 10 years. Lawrence has been a bi-coastal actor making New Orleans his second home, he has worked on the last several projects within his beloved "Crescent City", and had just completed filming two projects before returning to his California residence approximately 2 months before Katrina hit. New Orleans changed his life when he received his role in "Ray" and he looks forward to his second home recovering from the storm, "New Orleans never gave up on me, so I won't give up on her".
Larry Gara
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Larry Gatlin
Larry Gatlin was born on May 2, 1948 in Odessa, Texas, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Next of Kin (1989), Stroker Ace (1983) and Big Bad John (1990). He has been married to Janis Ross since August 9, 1969. They have three children.
Larry Gevirtz
Larry Gevirtz is an actor and producer, known for Wolves (2016), Texas Frightmare Massacre (2010) and The Road Killer.
Larry Glaister
Larry Glaister is known for Arizona (2018), Briarpatch (2019) and Death & Taxes (2014).
Larry Gleason
Larry Gleason is known for Unfaithful (2002).