Art LaFleur

Birth Name:

Art LaFleur

Birth Place:

Gary, Indiana, United States

Profession

Actor, Writer

Best known for performing the character of famous baseball player Babe Ruth in the iconic baseball movie “The Sandlot” in 1993
He met his wife on the set of the comedy “Rescue from Gilligan's Island” while she worked as a production coordinator, and they married on September 4, 1981
Until 1975, he worked as a salesman and in the restaurant business in Chicago before deciding to move to Los Angeles to become an actor at 31 years old
He performed the character of Louis Earlen in the episode “Red Bulls” of the police procedural television series “The Mentalist” in 2009

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