| Art LaFleur | |
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| Born | September 9, 1943 Gary, Indiana, USA |
Art LaFleur (born September 9, 1943) is an American character actor.
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La Fleur was born in Gary, Indiana. He played football in 1962 as a redshirt at the University of Kentucky under Coach Charlie Bradshaw as chronicled in a 2007 book, The Thin Thirty.
La Fleur has had many guest-starring roles on television shows, including Angel and JAG. He played baseball player Babe Ruth in The Sandlot. He had another notable role as the eccentric and obsessive character Red Sweeney (Silver Fox), in the 1995 family comedy film Man of the House (1995 film). He also appeared in one episode of the TV show M*A*S*H in season 9 ("Father’s Day”) as an MP looking for the people responsible for a stolen side of beef. La Fleur played a soldier in the 1985 WW2Scifi film Zone Troopers.
La Fleur also appeared as a baseball player, Chick Gandil, in Field of Dreams, as the White House's security chief in First Kid, as "McNulty" in both Trancers (1985) and Trancers II (1991). He has appeared in Air America (1990), The Replacements (2000) and Beethoven's 4th (2003) as Sergeant Rutledge.
La Fleur played a coach for the New York Yankees in the 1992 film, Mr. Baseball. He also appeared in The Santa Clause 2 in 2002, and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause in 2006 as the tooth fairy. In 2005 he appeared in Hostage. In 2009, he appeared in Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective and in the Science-Fiction horror film "The Rig".[1]
He also appeared on House, M.D. in 2005 as Warner Fitch, in the episode entitled "Sports Medicine." He also appeared on " Home Improvement as Jimbo in season 1 episode 7 (Nothing more than feelings).