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Lenny von Dohlen

Highest Rated: 81% Tender Mercies (1983)

Lowest Rated: 35% Home Alone 3 (1997)

Birthday: Dec 22, 1958

Birthplace: Augusta, Georgia, USA

An off-center character lead of stage, film, and TV since the early 1980s, Lenny Von Dohlen's angular, oddly handsome looks and strikingly blue eyes were somewhat reminiscent of the young Anthony Perkins. He tended to be cast accordingly: as obsessive hitmen ("Love Kills" 1991); deceptively wholesome child molesters (a 1985 ABC Afterschool Special entitled "Don't Touch"); and weird yet sympathetic neighbors ("Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" 1992). He was a strangely apt choice to play an extraterrestrial TV enthusiast in "Distant Signals," a superior installment of the syndicated "Tales From the Dark Side." The Georgia-born actor worked hard to lose his southern accent before pursuing an acting career. Ironically, Von Dohlen would make his film debut playing the leader of a C&W band in "Tender Mercies" (1982). More typically, as the star of the fanciful "Electric Dreams" (1984), he found himself in a love triangle with his computer. Von Dohlen may be best known for the recurring role of Harold Smith, a reclusive confidante of the slain Laura Palmer, on the cultish "Twin Peaks." He also worked on stage, mostly in regional theater. He co-starred in "Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story" (1996) and was among the group of thugs attempting to wrest a computer chip hidden in a child's toy from an enterprising tot in "Home Alone 3" (1997). Lenny Von Dohlen died on July 5, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA at the age of 63.

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Highest rated movies

81% 81% Tender Mercies
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80% 45% Teeth
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80% 91% The Maestro Watchlist
60% 69% Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
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47% 71% Electric Dreams
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43% 73% Ray Meets Helen Watchlist
40% 68% Leaving Normal
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36% 39% Jennifer Eight
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35% 27% Home Alone 3
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0% Blind Vision
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Filmography

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Sallywood Unknown (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet 100% Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story Oskar Knight (Character) - 2018
80% 91% The Maestro Luc (Character) - 2018
43% 73% Ray Meets Helen Armond (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Just Within Reach Mr. Baker (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Threshold Dr. Clair (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Obituaries Clifford Roderick (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Annie and the Gypsy Unknown (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 17% Downstream Elder Daniel (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beautiful Loser Reggie (adult) (Character) - 2008
80% 45% Teeth Bill (Character) $347.6K 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ponder Heart DeYancey Clanahan (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Frontline Ludwig Haig (Character) - 1999
35% 27% Home Alone 3 Jernigan (Character) $30.7M 1997
60% 69% Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story Forster Batterham (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Good Turn Matt Forrest (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bird of Prey Johnny McKenna (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Amberwaves Justin Campenella (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 36% Tollbooth Jack (Character) - 1994
40% 68% Leaving Normal Harry (Character) $1.4M 1992
36% 39% Jennifer Eight Blattis (Character) $11.0M 1992
No Score Yet 0% Eyes of the Beholder Janice Bickle (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 0% Blind Vision William Dalton (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Kills Jonathan Brinkman (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 35% Dracula's Widow Raymond (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Billy Galvin Billy Galvin (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Under the Biltmore Clock Knowleton Whitney (Character) - 1985
47% 71% Electric Dreams Miles Harding (Character) - 1984
81% 81% Tender Mercies Robert (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sessions Paulie (Character) - 1983

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75% 89% The Orville Valondis (Guest Star) 2017
No Score Yet 83% Criminal Minds Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet 87% Ghost Whisperer Unknown (Guest Star) 2007
No Score Yet 65% CSI: Miami Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
33% No Score Yet The Magnificent Seven Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet 95% The Pretender Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Hope Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walker, Texas Ranger Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
82% 93% Picket Fences Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet 82% Red Dwarf Cop (Guest Star) 1992
78% 92% Twin Peaks Harold Smith (Guest Star) 1990
83% No Score Yet thirtysomething Roy MacCaulay (Guest Star) 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Equalizer Dan Turner (Guest Star) 1986
71% 89% Miami Vice Unknown (Guest Star) 1984