I think most people know him from the eighties show LA LAW. He played a mentally challenged office worker, I gather. I never watched the show, hated it. Nevertheless, Drake was in it. Fast forward to his post-L.A. LAW career and we see him as the main bad-guy in the film DARKMAN. It was here where I first saw him. He was a great villain in my opinion. His fat, rotund face belied a wicked sense of humor. He has a perpetual gleam in his eye, the mark of someone who is very intelligent.
Drake is a physical actor too. It was a great thing to watch him in a couple of gunfights in the film, running, jumping, dodging. After that he played a hysterically funny, and weirdly horrifying mad doctor in the film DR. GIGGLES, I wonder if that was REALLY WAS his scary giggling we heard in the film? If it was, hey, Drake baby, see a psychiatrist or something why dont'cha? Kidding, kidding...:)
So where is Drake these days? Playing some goodie two-shoes scientist (with a goatee nonetheless!) on the crappy show PREY. Waste of time. Larry is a better bad-guy than he is a good guy. And that's how JC should use him. As a high caliber villan. Someone who seems indestructable, kinda like a Michael Myers character in my opinion. Larry can be quite frightening when he's angry [see DARKMAN] and I'd hate to see what he'd be like if he really went off the deep-end.
Come to think of it, if Drake had to play a good guy in a JC film I would have recommended a role that doesn't appear in JC's VAMPIRES, but was written into the book by John Steakley. That of Carl, team Crow's resident weapons expert. A fat, lumbering oaf of a man who accompanies the team on their vampire hunting missions, occasionally fighting the creatures himself. In the book Carl dies a violent death at the hands of the vampires.
That's how I'd like to see Larry Drake die in a JC film.
Going down fighting.