
Damien Leake
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Damien Leake (born August 12, 1952) is an American actor and record-holding masters track and field athlete. Starting with a role in 1973's Serpico, he has had a continuous career appearing in some 70 motion pictures, plus numerous television and stage acting roles. Through the 1980s he was typecast as a "a tender, sensitive . . . half-crazed killer" including roles in Death Wish and Apocalypse Now. He has branched out to other jobs related to the entertainment industry. He claims to having been a singer, dancer, director, musician, composer, musical director, vocal arranger, playwright, stage fight choreographer and ventriloquist.
Known for
Credits

Apocalypse Now (1979)
as Machine Gunner

Highlander (1986)
as Tony

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
as Patient - VA Hospital

The Devil's Own (1997)
as Art Fisher

Death Wish (1974)
as Alley Mugger #2 (uncredited)

88 Minutes (2007)
as The Judge

The Cotton Club (1984)
as Bub Jewett

Sea of Love (1989)
as Ernest Lee

Mighty Joe Young (1998)
as Cop

The Experiment (2010)
as Govenor

Prison Break: The Final Break (2009)
as Detective Marlin

The Great Debaters (2007)
as Wilson

Serpico (1973)
as Joey

Breaking In (2018)
as Isaac

Looking for Richard (1996)
as Self

He Said, She Said (1991)
as Ray, the Technical Director

Collision Course (1989)
as Tenement Man

Last Rites (1988)
as Detective Brown

Sleepwalker (2017)
Actor

Bad Twin (2016)
as Dr. Martine

The Killing Floor (1984)
as Frank Custer

Separate but Equal (1991)
as Dr. Kenneth Clark
Under the bridge (1998)
as Sammy

The Bad Twin (2016)
as Dr. Martine

Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man (1972)
as Hitch

Tuna on Rye (2026)
as Arthur





