Laurence Luckinbill Shares How Chance and the Theater Saved His Life | The Jim Masters Show
Exclusive Interview with legendary American actor, playwright and director Laurence Luckinbill and award-winning television, radio, multimedia personality, host, presenter, journalist and entertainer Jim Masters on this episode of The Jim Masters Show Live entertainment, lifestyle, celebrity talk show series. Laurence has worked in television, film, and theatre, doing triple duty in the theatre by writing, directing, and starring in stage productions. He is known for penning and starring in one-man shows based upon the lives of United States President Theodore Roosevelt, author Ernest Hemingway, and famous American defense attorney Clarence Darrow; starring in a one-man show based upon the life of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson; and for his portrayal of Spock's half-brother Sybok in the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Laurence Luckinbill has written and performed four award-winning solo performances portraying Lyndon Johnson, Clarence Darrow, Theodore Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway around the world. Luckinbill received an M.F.A. in play writing from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. During the
Kennedy administration, he joined the State Department as director and lecturer on theatre for the U.S. Foreign Service. After two years in Africa and Italy (where he directed an Arabic version of Macbeth and an Italian version of Our Town), he returned to New York for his first Broadway play, A Man For All Seasons. He became a charter member of four theatre companies: The Great Lakes Shakespeare Company, The APA-Phoenix, The Lincoln Center Repertory, and the American Conservatory Theatre. He then received critical acclaim for his appearance in the stage and film versions of The Boys In The Band. Luckinbill’s many New York appearances include The Memory Bank (NEW YORK CRITIC’S CIRCLE AWARD); A Prayer for My Daughter; What The ButlerSaw; The Shadow Box (TONY AWARD nomination); Neil Simon’s Chapter Two; Pavel Kohout’s Poor Murderer (co-translated with Herbert Berghof); Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo ; and national tours of Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Social Security, They’re Playing Our Song and I Do! I Do!, followed by a long run at NYC’s Lincoln Center in the Jon Robin Baitz play, A Fair Country. He also appeared on Broadway as Herr Schultz in Sam Mendes’ production of Cabaret.
Luckinbill’s feature films include starring roles in Such Good Friends; The Promise; Not For Publication; Cocktail; Messenger of Death; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, as Sybok. On television, Mr. Luckinbill starred in his own ABC series, The Delphi Bureau; for CBS, his favorite TV film, with wife Lucie Arnaz, The Mating Season; and also with Lucie a comedy pilot he created, One More Try; and in many other films including, A & E’s Dash and Lilly, directed by Kathy Bates, and Court TV’s premiere feature film, The Exonerated. For PBS, Mr. Luckinbill starred in The 5:48 for director James Ivory; The Boston Massacre; and Lyndon (Emmy nomination).
As a journalist, Mr. Luckinbill has contributed to The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times, American Theatre Magazine and Esquire. In 1993, Mr. Luckinbill wrote the narrative story for and co-produced (with Lucie Arnaz) Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie, a NBC two-hour television special (EMMY AWARD).
In 1996, his play about attorney Clarence Darrow, Clarence Darrow Tonight!, was honored with the American Bar Association’s SILVER GAVEL AWARD, and in 1999 it was nominated for a DRAMATIST GUILD AWARD. He has performed his plays in New York, at the LBJ Library, at numerous regional arts centers, and at the 1997 Presidential Inauguration. In 2002, he opened the new Abingdon Theater in New York with the premiere of his one-man play about president 2 Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Tonight! In 2005, he played the Abingdon again in a new solo play about the last two minutes of the life of Ernest Hemingway. All of his one-man show work has been filmed and is available on DVD.
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