Damien Leake
Born: 1952-08-12
• The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
Breaking In
Sleepwalker
Bad Twin
The Bad Twin
The Experiment
Prison Break: The Final Break
The Great Debaters
88 Minutes
Mighty Joe Young
The Devil's Own
Looking for Richard
Separate But Equal
He Said, She Said
Born on the Fourth of July
Sea of Love
Collision Course
Last Rites
Highlander
The Cotton Club
The Killing Floor
Apocalypse Now
Death Wish
Serpico
Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man