Leland Crooke

Leland Crooke is an American actor who works in both stage and film and is closely associated with the plays and movies of David Beaird. He made his stage debut in 1980 in Bal at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and later that year played Swiss Cheese in Mother Courage and Her Children at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, returning there in 1981 for Cyrano de Bergerac. After meeting Beaird in 1984, he appeared in Beaird's films The Party Animal (1984), My Chauffeur (1986), It Takes Two, Pass the Ammo, Scorchers, and The Civilization of Maxwell Bright, as well as in the Beaird plays Scorchers and 900 Oneonta in Los Angeles. He also took guest roles on television series including Matlock, Melrose Place, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, JAG, Angel, and Charmed.