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.