Damien Leake
Acting
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
TheatersTuna on Rye
2026 · Movie
The Baxters
2024 · Series
1923
2022 · Series
The Rookie: Feds
2022 · Series
Messiah
2020 · Series
Breaking In
2018 · Movie
Good Girls
2018 · Series
S.W.A.T.
2017 · Series
Sleepwalker
2017 · Movie
Bad Twin
2016 · Movie
The Bad Twin
2016 · Movie
How to Get Away with Murder
2014 · Series
Scandal
2012 · Series
The Experiment
2010 · Movie
Men of a Certain Age
2009 · Series
Prison Break: The Final Break
2009 · Movie
Dollhouse
2009 · Series
Eleventh Hour
2008 · Series
The Mentalist
2008 · Series
The Great Debaters
2007 · Movie
Saving Grace
2007 · Series
Greek
2007 · Series
88 Minutes
2007 · Movie
Ghost Whisperer
2005 · Series
Boston Legal
2004 · Series
NCIS
2003 · Series
Nip/Tuck
2003 · Series
Without a Trace
2002 · Series
CSI: Miami
2002 · Series
Crossing Jordan
2001 · Series
Strong Medicine
2000 · Series
The West Wing
1999 · Series
Family Law
1999 · Series
Mighty Joe Young
1998 · Movie
Ask Harriet
1998 · Series
The Devil's Own
1997 · Movie
Looking for Richard
1996 · Movie
Separate but Equal
1991 · Series
Separate but Equal
1991 · Movie
He Said, She Said
1991 · Movie
Born on the Fourth of July
1989 · Movie
Sea of Love
1989 · Movie
Collision Course
1989 · Movie
Last Rites
1988 · Movie
Married... with Children
1987 · Series
Highlander
1986 · Movie
The Cotton Club
1984 · Movie
The Cosby Show
1984 · Series
The Killing Floor
1984 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Movie
Death Wish
1974 · Movie
Serpico
1973 · Movie
Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man
1972 · Movie