Art LaFleur Biography

Fast Facts

• 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