Larry Michael Hankin (born December 7, 1937) is an American character actor, performer, director, comedian and producer. He is known for his major film roles as Charley Butts in Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Ace in Running Scared (1986), and Carl Alphonse in Billy Madison (1995). He had smaller roles as Doobie in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Sergeant Balzak in Home Alone, Mr. Heckles in Friends, and Joe in Breaking Bad.

Filmography

• 2026I Got A Bullet with Your Name on It! — Mario The Mouth
• 2025A Cell Phone Movie — Larry
• 2025Bad Haircut — Gus
• Liam and Michael Presents: Cohan and Danny — Bens Grandfather
• 2024The Invisible Raptor — Murray
• Liam and Michael — Ben's Grandfather
• 2023Unstuffed: A Build-A-Bear Story — Concession Worker
• 2022I Hear the Trees Whispering — Dale
• 2021The Eden Theory — Farmer Joe
• 2020Date Nite — Janitor
• 2020The Tree — Old Man ("The Tree") / The Projectionist
• 2019El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — Old Joe
• 2018Appland — Fred Grassi
• Barry — Stovka
• 2018Salami on White — Larry
• Bad Internet — Mr. Heckles / The Rock
• Baskets — Mortician
• 2015The Mourning — Dad
• 2014Elwood — Sammy the Sausage
• 2013Pain & Gain — Pastor Randy
• 2012Buzzkill — Granger
• Breaking Bad — Old Joe
• 2008The Alphabet Killer — Perry
• 2008The Outlaw Emmett Deemus and the Porno Queen — Emmett Deemus
• 2007Nobel Son — Dr. Polaczek
• Saving Grace — Crusty
• The Sarah Silverman Program — Mister Johnson
• 2006Grilled — Story
• My Name Is Earl — Tom Sparks
• Wanted — Sex Shop Owner
• 2004Nobody Knows Anything! — Blind Man
• 2003Hard Ground — Toothless
• Joan of Arcadia — Homeless Man God
• 2003Knee High P.I. — Fudgie
• Monk — Bearded Man
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Zapata Childs, Old Stoner Dude
• Malcolm in the Middle — Luther
• 2000The Independent — William Henry Ellis
• 1999Enemy Action — Yuri
• 1998Amazing Stories: The Movie III — Jubal
• 1998Kisses in the Dark — Sometimes Jones (Solly's Diner), Director, Writer
• Martial Law — Father Bosley
• Claude's Crib
• 1997Money Talks — Roland
• The Tony Danza Show — Gary
• 1997Vegas Vacation — Preacher
• 1995Billy Madison — Carl Alphonse
• Star Trek: Voyager — Gaunt Gary
• The Naked Truth — Stan
• ER — Bearded Homeless Guy
• Ellen — Larry
• Friends — Mr. Heckles
• 1994It's Pat: The Movie — Postal Supervisor
• Party of Five — Corkery
• 1994Prehysteria! 2 — Ketchum
• 1994The Shadow — Taxi Driver
• Weird Science
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman — Dr. Martin Solsvig
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Doc
• 1992Deuce Coupe — Slick Lowry
• Mad About You — Bob the Security Guard
• 1992Nickel & Dime — Wito-Wito-Wito
• 1992Out on a Limb — Officer Darren
• Picket Fences — Bernie Thompson
• 1992T Bone N Weasel — Rev. Gluck
• 1991Black Magic Woman — Hank Warfield
• Home Improvement — Larry
• Step by Step — Abe Lincoln
• 1990Dark Romances Vol. 1 — Drunk Bum
• 1990Death Warrant — Mayerson
• 1990Home Alone — Officer Balzak
• 1990Pretty Woman — Landlord
• Shannon's Deal
• Seinfeld — Tom Pepper (Kramer)
• 1988Nightfall — Desert King
• 1988She's Having a Baby — Hank
• 1987Amazon Women on the Moon — Man in Pub (segment "Son of the Invisible Man")
• 1987Fatal Beauty — Jerry Murphy
• Jake and the Fatman — Holly
• Married... with Children — Mary
• 1987Planes, Trains and Automobiles — Doobie
• ALF — Andrew Seminick
• 1986Amazing Stories — Jubal
• 1986Armed and Dangerous — Kokolovitch
• Joe Bash
• L.A. Law — Lyle Kendrick
• Matlock — Clayton Hood
• 1986Ratboy — Robert Jewell
• 1986Running Scared — Ace
• Amazing Stories — Jubal
• 1985Howie Mandel: Live from Carnegie Mall
• 1985The Sure Thing — Trucker
• Brothers
• Hunter — Jimmy Cracklin, Jimmy Cracklin (uncredited)
• 1984Young Lust: A Soap Opera — Binney
• At Ease
• Goodnight, Beantown
• 1983The Star Chamber — Detective Kenneth Wiggan
• 1983The Sting II — Handicap
• 1982Annie — Pound Man
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Mr. Bert Man
• Family Ties — Walter
• Newhart — Wild Mel
• Hill Street Blues
• 1980Die Laughing — Bock
• 1980Gridlock — Sill
• 1980Solly’s Diner — Sometimes Jones, Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
• 1980The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything — René
• Benson
• California Fever
• 1979Escape from Alcatraz — Charley Butts
• 1979The Jerk — Circus Hand (uncredited)
• 1978Doctor Dracula — Wainwright
• Free Country
• 1978Loose Shoes — 2nd Veteran
• 1978Outside Chance — Deputy in Van
• 1978Peeping Times — Nutritionist
• 1978Uncle Joe Shannon — Sound Technician
• WKRP in Cincinnati — Mickey Broadhead
• Eight Is Enough
• The San Pedro Beach Bums
• Laverne & Shirley
• Barney Miller — Earl Kelso
• 1974Lucifer's Women — John Wainwright, 'Svengali'
• 1973Steelyard Blues — Bill the Garbage Truck Driver
• 1972Evil Roy Slade — Snake
• 1972Thumb Tripping — Simp
• 1970The Phynx — Philbaby
• The Music Scene
• 1969Viva Max! — Romero
• 1968How Sweet It Is! — Policeman #1
• 1968Yours, Mine and Ours — Supermarket Clerk
• 1967Funnyman — Roger
• That Girl
• Echoes from the Midnight Mansion
• The Farmhouse Murders — Sheriff Tom Riley

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2026The Best Pizza is in LA — Self
• 2021Friends: The Reunion — Self
• 2019The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — Self
• 1965Dylan Speaks — Self