Sorrell Booke

Booke succumbed to cancer in 1994. In 2004, Laurie stars in the Fox Broadcasting medical drama, House. Sanders, personnel manager at Archie's workplace, Pendergast Tool and Die. In 2003 he starred in and also directed comedy-drama series Fortysomething. Booke had a recurring role in Norman Lear's groundbreaking sitcom All in the Family as Mr. In 1996, his book The Gun Seller, a humorous novel of suspense, was published. Booke had parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as Black Like Me and A Fine Madness before transitioning to focus primarily on television parts in the 1970s and voice acting in the 1980s and 1990s. Other film appearances include Maybe Baby and Stuart Little.

Fluent in five languages, Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. He has also had more serious roles, such as his parts in the films, Peter's Friends and Sense and Sensibility. Sorrell Booke (born January 4, 1930 in Buffalo, New York; died February 11, 1994 in Sherman Oaks, California) was an American actor best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard. However, like Fry, Laurie has branched out into a solo career as an actor in both comic roles (such as the Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson as Prince George and Lieutenant George). Laurie played Bertie Wooster, a role for which his talent as a pianist and singer came in handy. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories.

G. Fry and Laurie had several series of their own as a double act, as well as starring in the television series Jeeves and Wooster, an adaptation of P. It was when Footlights took their end-of-year revue to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1980 that Laurie met Stephen Fry. In his final year, he was the President of the Club, while Emma Thompson was the Vice-president.

He also joined the famous Footlights Club at Cambridge, which has been the starting point for many successful British comedians. During his first year at university, Laurie went out for a while with Emma Thompson, now a well-known actress. His father had won an Olympic gold medal in rowing, and he himself was a rower at school and university taking part in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race of 1980. He was born and raised in Oxford, where he attended the Dragon School (a famous prep school), before going on to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read Archaeology and Anthropology.

Hugh Laurie (born June 11, 1959) is a British comedian, actor, and author best known for his television work, especially his double act with Stephen Fry.