Biography
General-purpose actor Larry Blake made his screen debut playing a young Adolf Hitler in
James Whale's troubled
The Road Back (1937), only to see his scenes end up on the cutting room floor. A difficult actor to pigeonhole, Blake went on to play everything from cops to robbers in a long career that lasted through the late '70s and included such television shows as
The Lone Ranger,
The Adventures of Superman,
Yancy Derringer,
Perry Mason,
Leave It to Beaver,
Gunsmoke,
The Munsters,
The Beverly Hillbillies,
Ironside,
Little House on the Prairie, and
Kojak. His son is Michael F. Blake, a well-known makeup artist and the biographer of silent screen star
Lon Chaney. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide