Dan Lauria
Dan Lauria was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on April 12th, 1947 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 77, Dan Lauria biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Daniel Joseph Lauria (born April 12, 1947) is an American actor best known for his role as Jack Arnold in The Wonder Years.
Early life
Lauria, an Italian-American, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and the son of Carmela (née Luongo) and Joseph J. Lauria. He grew up in Lindenhurst, New York. He graduated from Lindenhurst Senior High School in 1965 as a varsity football player and taught physical education at Lindenhurst High School for a short time. Lauria, a Vietnam War soldier, served in the United States Marine Corps at the same time in his life as Jack Arnold, his character in The Wonder Years, did during the Korean War. He served as a platoon commander at An Loc, which is just south of Vietnam, along 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 money-conscious father on the television series The Wonder Years, which ran from 1988 to 1993. In 1998's Independence Day, Jim Webb played NASA Administrator James Webb in the television miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Commander James Webb of the United States. In The Spirit, he has appeared as Police Commissioner Eustace Dolan. In The Three Stooges N.Y.U.K., he appeared as Coach Hamstrung. AMC was founded in 2000. In a William Mastrosimone Off Broadway production of A Stone Carver with Jim Iorio and Elizabeth Rossa, Lauria appeared on stage in New York in the summer of 2006. Lauria was also present in a season two episode of Army Wives as well as a season one episode of The Mentalist. Lauria's name has appeared in 2009 as General Lee Whitworth, M.D. In Criminal Minds season 4, the four main characters are women. Ben Savage, Fred Savage's younger brother, has also appeared in a Boy Meets World episode. Lauria returned to Off Broadway in late 2009, as Jimmy Hoffa in Brian Lee Franklin's Good Bobby, a fictionalized account of Robert F. Kennedy's ascension.
In 2010, Lauria performed Vince Lombardi in the Broadway play Lombardi. The play received rave reviews, with sportswriter Jim Hague remarking that "Lauria truly becomes Vince Lombardi." You might not know you're watching an actor. From the wire-framed glasses to the threatening scowl, he's Lombardi through and through. Vince Ascolese, a north Bergen football coach, said, "I felt like he was Lombardi." It was uncanny." During the NFL on FOX debut of 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. Lauria's portrayal of Lombardi was used during the NFL on FOX debut of Super Bowl XLV, where one of the two participating teams was used. In that game, the Packers advanced to defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Lauria played Jean Shepherd in The Broadway production of A Christmas Story: The Musical, a role he reprised off Broadway at Madison Square Garden in 2013. He appeared on Sullivan & Son, Jack Sullivan from 2012 to 2014.
During his time as a Department of Veterans Affairs celebrity hospital visitor, Lauria visited many VA hospitals and visiting patients.