LARRY B. SCOTT is an American actor who debuted in the 1978 movie A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich. He played Gerald LeFlore in the 1978 movie One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story. He is best known for playing Lamar Latrelle, the openly gay fraternity member in the Revenge of the Nerds series of comedy films from 1984 to 1994.
In the 1986 film SpaceCamp, he played the character Rudy Tyler. In Fear of a Black Hat, he played Tasty-Taste, a pastiche of rappers Flavor Flav and Eazy-E. Scott also appears in The Karate Kid and is one of the first competitors to lose to Daniel LaRusso in the film’s finale. He also appeared in the movie Iron Eagle. He then co-starred in Extreme Prejudice, directed by Walter Hill. He played a role in the S.E. Hinton adaptation That Was Then… This Is Now.
Scott has also appeared in several television sitcoms, including Barney Miller, The Jeffersons, Seinfeld, St. Elsewhere, Magnum P.I., and Martin, as well as the television movie Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. He starred as tech genius F.X. Spinner on the sci-fi action-adventure series Super Force for two seasons. He was also the voice of the Paladin in the game Diablo II and reprised his role in Diablo IV.
He operates the acting studio W.I.T. (Whatever It Takes) Filmwerks.
BRIAN TOCHI
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