Damien Leake (born August 12, 1952) is an American actor and record-holding masters track and field athlete. Starting with a role in 1973's Serpico, he has had a continuous career appearing in some 70 motion pictures, plus numerous television and stage acting roles. Through the 1980s he was typecast as a "a tender, sensitive . . . half-crazed killer" including roles in Death Wish and Apocalypse Now. He has branched out to other jobs related to the entertainment industry. He claims to having been a singer, dancer, director, musician, composer, musical director, vocal arranger, playwright, stage fight choreographer and ventriloquist.

Filmography

• 2026Tuna on Rye — Arthur
• The Baxters — Pastor Mark
• 1923 — Marvin
• The Rookie: Feds — Agent Bob Telford
• Messiah — George
• 2018Breaking In — Isaac
• Good Girls — Pastor Collins
• S.W.A.T. — Wesley
• 2017Sleepwalker
• 2016Bad Twin — Dr. Martine
• 2016The Bad Twin — Dr. Martine
• How to Get Away with Murder — Dr. Healy
• Scandal — Judge Leo Theroux
• 2010The Experiment — Govenor
• Dollhouse — Minister
• Men of a Certain Age — Roy
• 2009Prison Break: The Final Break — Detective Marlin
• Eleventh Hour — Dr. Sidney Hayward
• The Mentalist — High Powered Attorney
• 200788 Minutes — The Judge
• Greek — Professor Sommerfield
• Saving Grace — Calvin Revo
• 2007The Great Debaters — Wilson
• Ghost Whisperer — Dr. Chiles, Doctor Chiles
• Boston Legal — Referee
• NCIS — Henry Bennett
• Nip/Tuck — Dr. Moss
• CSI: Miami — Judge Berber
• Without a Trace — Chaplain
• Crossing Jordan — Otis
• Strong Medicine — Principal
• Family Law
• The West Wing — Dr. Ted Tatum
• Ask Harriet — Marty
• 1998Mighty Joe Young — Cop
• 1998Under the bridge — Sammy
• 1997The Devil's Own — Art Fisher
• 1991He Said, She Said — Ray, the Technical Director
• 1991Separate but Equal — Dr. Kenneth Clark
• Separate but Equal — Dr. Kenneth Clark
• 1989Born on the Fourth of July — Patient - VA Hospital
• 1989Collision Course — Tenement Man
• 1989Sea of Love — Ernest Lee
• 1988Last Rites — Detective Brown
• Married... with Children — Principal Alburton
• 1986Highlander — Tony
• The Cosby Show — Andy Anderson
• 1984The Cotton Club — Bub Jewett
• 1984The Killing Floor — Frank Custer
• American Playhouse — Dale 'D.J.' Jackson, Frank Custer
• 1979Apocalypse Now — Machine Gunner
• 1974Death Wish — Alley Mugger #2 (uncredited)
• 1973Serpico — Joey
• 1972Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man — Hitch

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1996Looking for Richard — Self