Damien Leake

Damien Leake

Birthday: 1952-08-12

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Movies

Prison Break: The Final Break
Prison Break: The Final Break

Michael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of...

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He Said, She Said
He Said, She Said

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals ...

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Collision Course
Collision Course

A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger....

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Mighty Joe Young
Mighty Joe Young

As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from po...

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The Experiment
The Experiment

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ...

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The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters

The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words ...

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Serpico
Serpico

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his...

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Death Wish
Death Wish

After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man v...

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Born on the Fourth of July
Born on the Fourth of July

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist ...

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Sea of Love
Sea of Love

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and...

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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

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Separate But Equal
Separate But Equal

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroye...

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Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man
Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man

A dramatised documentary which explores ghetto life as seen and felt inside Harlem, based on experie...

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Bad Twin
Bad Twin

A radio host takes in her troubled sister’s twin daughters, unknowingly putting her family, her frie...

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Highlander
Highlander

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on t...

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Breaking In
Breaking In

Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-te...

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The Killing Floor
The Killing Floor

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaug...

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The Devil's Own
The Devil's Own

Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire o...

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The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

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Last Rites
Last Rites

After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where...

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88 Minutes
88 Minutes

Famed forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm enjoys a reputation as one of the most sought-after profi...

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Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker

A young woman seeks help from a sleep clinic for her insomnia, but soon deals with her entire life b...

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The Bad Twin
The Bad Twin

Psychological thriller in which two twin sisters move in with their aunt after their mother is place...

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Looking for Richard
Looking for Richard

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t...

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