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John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American film and television actor. His best known roles include Dan Fielding on the series Night Court and Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride. He joined the cast of Boston Legal in fall 2007. Larroquette was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Bertha Oramous (née Helmstetter), a department store clerk, and John Edgar Larroquette, who was in the U.S. Navy. He played reed instruments as a child and moved to Los Angeles, California in 1973. The family lived in the middle Ninth Ward. Larroquette lived in New Orleans until he was 22. He returned there after Hurricane Katrina and found the home in which he lived until age 12. He stated that returning to New Orleans after the hurricane was like returning to a post-apocalyptic world. Larroquette enjoys collecting rare books. Authors whose works he has focused on include Samuel Beckett, Charles Bukowski, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs and Robinson Jeffers.[4] He is an avid fan of the New Orleans Saints.

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