John Larkin

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John Larkin is the name of several individuals:

• John Larkin (Boston deacon) (died 1808) deacon of the Old North Congregational Church in Boston, who provided the horse ridden by Paul Revere following the hanging of warning lanterns in that church
• John Larkin (priest) (1801-1858) Sulpician Roman Catholic priest prominent during the 1840s and 1850s in Lower Canada and the United States
• John Larkin (movie actor) (1879-1936) African-American actor who played numerous small roles in movies between 1931 and 1936, invariably cast as servants or other menials. He also appeared in a few films during the early silent period, starting in 1911.
• John (Francis) Larkin (1901-1965) prolific American screenwriter, primarily in the 1940s, who directed two films, 1942's Quiet Please, Murder, which he also scripted and 1945's Circumstantial Evidence
• John Larkin (radio and television actor) (1912-1965) forceful American actor best known for his long-running radio portrayal of Perry Mason and starring role as attorney Mike Karr on the television daytime drama The Edge of Night from 1956 to 1961. Between 1962 and 1965 he made many TV guest appearances and had prominent supporting roles in two TV series and three films.
• John Paul Larkin (1942-1999) scat-singing jazz musician renowned as Scatman John
• John Larkin (Australian actor) occasional billing for John Larking, busy film and television performer in his native Australia, remembered for his portrayals of Vince Talbot in 1980 and Joe McCormack in 1986 on the TV series Prisoner
• John Charles Larkin (born 1968) Spanish-Irish-American writer, producer and director of show business documentaries. His subjects have included Ocean's Eleven, KISS, Dean Martin, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and Bettie Page. In the 1990s he co-founded a Los Angeles comedy troupe and was the lead singer in a punk band. Usually billed as Carlos Larkin