Lorin McCraley

Lorin McCraley is an American actor who discovered acting while attending Scottsdale Community College on a football scholarship. Born in Kingman, Arizona, he grew up in several places across the American Southwest before settling in Cottonwood, Arizona, where he played football and baseball at Mingus Union High School. He earned a B.A. in theater from Ottawa University in Kansas, then left the University of Missouri-Kansas City's graduate acting program early to head for Los Angeles. In his first month there, while working as an extra on the television show Double Rush, he was fired by the first assistant director, then invited back by director Michael Lembeck. He returned the following morning and was given a first line on television, along with his SAG card. Years of stage work in Los Angeles led to a niche as a Hollywood heavy. With writing partner Edward Cieplinski, he also wrote screenplays.