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Larry Carroll (December 11, 1950) is a telecaster, actor and producer, who appeared as himself as a member of the KTNS newsteam reporting on Mindy's arrest for refusing to name her sources in Season 4's Cheerleaders in Chains.

Biography[]

Larry Carroll was born on December 11th, 1950, in Chicago, the only son of attorney Lawrence William Carroll Jr., a Cook County Circuit Court judge. He atteneded High School at the prestigious University of Chicago Laboratory School, in the 1960s, where he also marched in civil rights demonstrations.[1] After High School he left Illinois to take up a place at private libera arts Pomona College in Claremont, California where he balanced school work with radio station and local television jobs, before graduating in 1973 with a degree in economics.

Within months of leaving school, he won a job as a news writer and producer at KABC-TV Channel 7, the West Coast flagship station of the ABC television network, licensed to Los Angeles, starting his decades long career in TV broadcasting. By 1974, he was a weekend anchor. Over the next 11 years he anchored, worked as a senior correspondent, and produced two documentaries on famine and relief efforts in East Africa.

Carroll had already married and divorced twice, but during a trip to Ethiopa in 1984 to produce those documentaries he met his future wife, Roman in a hotel bar in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[2] After she escaped to Djibouti, Carroll found her and brought her to Los Angeles, where they were wed in 1986. They have two children Yenea born in 1987, prematurely, and Lawrence Carroll IV, born 1990.

After 17 years he left KABC to join KCAL, in 1989 when it was then owned by Disney. [3] He anchored the late evening newscast while the main anchor covered the war in the Persian Gulf. After that, Carroll returned to reporting and weekend anchoring before losing his contract in 1993. Later that year, he became a local correspondent for NBC News. In 1995, he moved to KCBS, to anchor weekends and early evening weekday broadcasts, where he stayed till May 1999 when, in the midst of a fraud case, which he was subsequently cleared of, his contract was not renewed.[2]

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After leaving KCBS TV he moved into radio taking on the News Anctor role at CBS Radio KFWB-AMCBS for 7 years. He then became a Producer and Consultant at SCA TV between 2012 - 2014 and presenting news for WE-HO West Hollywood TV. He also took up the position of Chariman of the Commodity Exchange Associates (2009 - 2018), started the Diversified Entertainment Group (2007 - Present) and became a Director of Chatsworth Henderson Capital, Ltd (2018 - present).[4]

Career (Acting)[]

Carroll was so much the epitome of the reporter/broadcaster, and such a natural on screen that he became almost a go to for movie and tv productions to portray exactly that in a host of Film and TV Series productions through the 70s and 80s, builidng up quite an acting resume.[5]

Filmography[]

Year TV Series Episode(s) Role
1975 McCloud Sharks! Helicopter Pilot
1975 Get Christie Love! I'm Your New Neighbor The Newscaster
1976 Cannon Point After Death Sportscaster
1976 Emergency! The Nuisance

The Game

Jeff Pitcher, the TV Newscaster
1976-1982 Quincy M.E. A Star Is Dead

Death Casts a Vote

Mode of Death

Bitter Pill

Newsman

TV Reporter

MacKenzie

Wenkel

1979 Salvage 1 Shangri-la Lil Newscaster
1979 Blind Ambition Part I - IV TV Commentator
1979 ABC Weekend Specials The Contest Kid Strikes Again Greg Hill
1980 Condominium Ep 1.1

Ep 1.2

1st Newscaster
1980 Beyond Westworld The Lion Narrator
1982 Mork & Mindy Cheerleaders in Chains Larry Carroll, KTNS
1982 The Powers of Matthew Star Genius Weatherman
1983 Hart to Hart Trust Your Hart Clay Garrett
1985 The A-Team Mind Games Newsreader
1986 Hunter Overnight Sensation Melendez's Lawyer
1987 Outlaws Hymn Newsman
1988 Favorite Son Part 1 - 3 TV Host
1989 Baywatch Shelter Me Newsman
1990 Major Dad All Quiet on the Home Front:

Part 2

Newscaster
1992-93 Murder, She Wrote Incident in Lot 7

Double Jeopardy

Anchorman

Telecaster

1998 Sister, Sister For the People Newscaster
1999 Diagnosis Murder Voices Carry Newscaster
2000-2001 The West Wing In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part II

Bartlet's Third State of the Union

TV Announcer

Newscaster #2

2001 Any Day Now It's Not Just a Word: Part 1
2002 Greg the Bunny SK-2.0 Moderator
2002 American Dreams The Home Front Rosey Grier
Year Movie Role
1976 Rocky TV Interviewer
1977 Billy Jack Goes to Washington
1982 One Dark Night T.V. Reporter
1984 2010: The Year We Make Contact Anchorman on TV
1987 Beverly Hills Cop II T.V. Reporter
1990 The Last of the Finest Newsman
1992 Miracle Beach TV Announcer
1997 Volcano Larry Carroll - The Media
2000 Agent Red Newscaster
2002 Clockstoppers Newscaster
2004 A Day Without a Mexican Newscaster
Year TV Movie Role
1990 Shattered Dreams Newscaster
1991 Fatal Friendship
1993 Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth Anchorman
2000 American Tragedy TV Commentator

He also lent his voice to the part of Detective Miller in the Spider Woman Animated Series (1979-1980), and the films A Man, a Woman and a Bank Radio Announcer (1979); Venomous (2001).

Mork & Mindy[]

Larry Carroll appeared as a member of the KTNS newsteam in Boulder, reporting on Mindy's arrest and arraignment for her failure to reveal her source in her story revealing corruption in a local Highway building project after being subpoena-ed in court. His report accompanying footage of Mindy being taken into jail in Hidden Springs.

References[]

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