Dan Lauria

Dan Lauria
Lauria at the ATX TV Festival 2014 for Sullivan & Son
Born	(1947-04-12) April 12, 1947 (age 76) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1962–present
Spouse	Eileen Cregg (m. 1991; div. 2001)

Military career
Service/branch	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1970–1973
Rank	Captain (O-3)
Battles/wars	Vietnam War

Dan Lauria (born April 12, 1947) is an American actor, who played the role of Jack Arnold in The Wonder Years (1988–1993), Jack Sullivan on Sullivan and Son (2012–2014), and Al Luongo on Pitch (2016–2017).

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Early life

Lauria, an Italian-American, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Carmela (née Luongo) and Joseph J. Lauria.^[1] He also lived in Lindenhurst, New York. He graduated from Lindenhurst Senior High School in 1965 as a varsity football player, and he briefly taught physical education at Lindenhurst High School. A Vietnam War veteran, Lauria served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps;^[2] he served at the same point in his life that Jack Arnold, his character in The Wonder Years, did during the Korean War. In Vietnam, he served as a platoon commander at An Loc near the Cambodian border. He got his start in acting while attending Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut, on a football scholarship.

Career

Lauria is best known for his portrayal of Jack Arnold, the stern, but loving, money-conscious father on the TV series The Wonder Years, that ran from 1988 to 1993. He also played NASA Administrator James Webb in the 1998 TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and Commanding Officer, USA in 1996's Independence Day. More recently he has appeared as Police Commissioner Eustace Dolan in The Spirit. He appeared as Coach Hamstrung in The Three Stooges N.Y.U.K. on AMC in 2000. Lauria appeared on stage in New York in the summer of 2006 in an off-Broadway production of A Stone Carver by William Mastrosimone with Jim Iorio and Elizabeth Rossa. Lauria also had a small role in a season two episode of Army Wives, as well as a season one episode of The Mentalist. In 2009, Lauria has appeared as General Lee Whitworth, M.D. in Criminal Minds season 4. He has also appeared in an episode of Boy Meets World, starring Ben Savage, the younger brother of Fred Savage. In late 2009, Lauria returned to the off-Broadway stage, appearing as Jimmy Hoffa in Brian Lee Franklin's Good Bobby, a fictionalized account of Robert F. Kennedy's rise.

In 2010, Lauria appeared as Vince Lombardi in the Broadway play Lombardi.^[3] The play received positive reviews, with sportswriter Jim Hague commenting, "Lauria truly becomes Vince Lombardi. You almost forget you're watching an actor. He's Lombardi through and through, down to the wire-framed glasses and intimidating scowl." North Bergen football coach Vince Ascolese, who met Lombardi, commented "I really felt like he was Lombardi. It was uncanny."^[4] Lauria's portrayal of Lombardi was used during the NFL on FOX introduction to Super Bowl XLV, where one of the two participating teams was the Green Bay Packers; the team Lombardi coached to victories in the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968. The Packers went on to defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers in that game.

In 2012, Lauria played the part of Jean Shepherd in the Broadway production of A Christmas Story: The Musical, a role which he reprised off-Broadway at Madison Square Garden in 2013. From 2012 through 2014, he played Jack Sullivan on the Steve Byrne sitcom Sullivan & Son.

Lauria served one year as a Department of Veterans Affairs celebrity hospital visitor, during which he toured many VA hospitals, meeting patients.

Filmography

Film

1981 C.O.D. as Secret Service Man #2
1983 Without a Trace as Baker
1985 South Bronx Heroes as FBI Agent
1987 Stakeout as Detective Phil Coldshank
1993 Another Stakeout as Captain Phil Coldshank
1995 Excessive Force II: Force on Force as Orlando Franco
1996 Faithful
1996 No One Could Protect Her as Detective Greg Coming
1996 Independence Day as Commanding Officer
1998 True Friends as Pauley
1998 Wide Awake as Father Peters
1999 Stranger in My House as Dennis
1999 A Wake in Providence as Rudy
2001 Full Disclosure as Clive Carter
2001 Ricochet River as Coach Garth
2002 Contagion as General Ryker
2002 Outside the Law as Detective Froman
2002 High Times Potluck as Carmine
2002 The Empath
2003 Dead Canaries as Vito Scaldafieri
2005 The Signs of the Cross as Mr. Coyne
2005 Jesus, Mary and Joey as Father Gino
2006 Big Momma's House 2 as Crawford
2008 Dear Me as Mr. Hunt
2008 The Spirit as Commissioner Eustace Dolan
2009 Alien Trespass as Chief Dawson
2009 Donna On Demand as Detective Lewis
2009 Dead Air as Fred
2009 InSearchOf as Reverend Blackwell
2010 The Waiter as Father Parks
2011 Here's the Kicker as Dave Berry
2011 Life of Lemon as Arthur
2013 Make Your Move as Parole Officer Foster
2014 Sister as Jeffrey Presser
2017 The Concessionaires Must Die! as Jack Fisk
2017 An American Dog Story as Paw Poochini
2017 Locating Silver Lake as Speaker
2020 The Eagle and the Albatross as Dr. Al Wiserman
2020 The Way Back as Gerry Norris
2020 Holidate as Wally
2021 Potato Dreams of America
TBA Reagan as Tip O'Neill

Television

1982 Muggable Mary, Street Cop (TV movie) as Vince Palucci
1984 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as John Shane (episode: 'Kill Devil')
1985–1987 Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Foster / Rogan
1986 Doing Life (TV movie) (with Tony Danza)
1986 Growing Pains as Hockey Coach Brockton
1986–1987 Growing Pains as Dan / Hockey Coach
1987 L.A. Law as Joseph Sears
1987 Wiseguy as Detective Jack Philips
1987–1988 Cagney & Lacey as Detective Harry Dupnick
1988 David (TV movie) as John
1988–1993 The Wonder Years as Jack Arnold
1990 The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (TV movie) as Steve Winslow
1993 In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (TV movie) as Bob Blanchard
1995 Amazing Grace as Harry Kramer
1995 Burke's Law as Coach Jimmy Jackson
1996 Terror in the Family (TV movie) as Todd Marten
1996–1997 Party of Five as Coach Russ Petrocelli
1997 Boy Meets World as Judge Lamb
1997 Prison of Secrets (TV movie) as Sergeant Ed Crang
1997 Walker, Texas Ranger as Salvatore Matacio
1997 Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman as Major Samuel Mortison
1998 From the Earth to the Moon (TV miniseries) as James Webb
1999 Batman Beyond as Bill Wallace (voice)
2000 Static Shock as Sean Foley (voice)
2000 Diagnosis Murder as Donald Purdy
2000 N.Y.U.K. as Coach Hamstrung
2001 Smallville as Coach Walt Arnold
2003 JAG as Allen Blaisdell
2003 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Peter Kurtz
2003 7th Heaven as Andrew Hampton
2005 Ghost Whisperer as Ellis Conway
2007 Psych as Bill Peterson
2007 The Bronx Is Burning (TV miniseries) as Detective Borelli
2007 The Black Donnellys as Franny Kenny
2008 The Mentalist TV series, episode 1x20 as Santino Battaglia
2008 How I Met Your Mother as Nolan
2009 Criminal Minds as General Lee Whitworth
2010 Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Boxing Gym
2011 Nurse Jackie as Carl
2011 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Ray Masters
2011 Harry's Law as Judge Raymond Gillot
2012 NCIS: Los Angeles as James Cleary
2012 Sullivan & Son as Jack Sullivan
2012 Person of Interest as Stanley Amis
2012–2014 Perception as Joe Moretti
2014 Hot in Cleveland as J.J.
2015 Grey's Anatomy as Martin Davis
2015–2019 Blue Bloods as FDNY Commissioner Stan Rourke
2016 Pitch as Al Luongo
2017 The Night Shift as Doug
2017 Elementary as Louis Garmendia
2017 NCIS as Morgan Cade
2018 Christmas At Grand Valley as Frank
2018 Man with a Plan as Frank
2018-2021 Shameless as Mo White
2018 This Is Us as Toby's Father
2019 The Resident as Simon Ortiz
2020 MacGyver as Next Door Neighbor
2021 The Goldbergs as Mr. Wofsy (Next Door Neighbor)
2023 Fantasy Island as Lou Hutchinson
2023 The Good Doctor as Mr. Ermey (Episode: "Loves Labor")