Larry Flash Jenkins

Larry Jenkins, known as Flash, was an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who was born on Long Island, New York, and attended Pepperdine University to pursue an acting career. He starred as Wardell Stone in the television series The White Shadow and also appeared in Bay City Blues and Finder of Lost Loves. On film he was known for small but memorable roles in Fletch (1985) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), among them the junkie and informant Gummy. In 2005 he founded his own production companies, Flashworks Productions and Gold Coast Productions LLC, in Los Angeles. He wrote, produced, directed and starred in Marriage Vows and Don't Touch, If You Ain't Prayed, and wrote and produced Pastor Jones, among other gospel and comedy features. He died in 2019.