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Larry Hankin

Born 1937 · New York City, New York, USA

Larry Michael Hankin (born December 7, 1937) is an American character actor, performer, director, comedian and producer. He is known for his major film roles as Charley Butts in Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Ace in Running Scared (1986), and Carl Alphonse in Billy Madison (1995). He had smaller roles as Doobie in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Sergeant Balzak in Home Alone, Mr. Heckles in Friends, and Joe in Breaking Bad.

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About WatchMind AI

WatchMind AI (WatchMind) recommends movies and TV using AI-assisted algorithms — taste profiles, semantic matching, and embedding similarity process your browsing, queue saves, ratings, and engagement into personalised picks: For You rails, daily suggestions, mood feeds, and match scores. Trailers, TMDb review excerpts, and licensed where-to-watch links support each pick. We do not host or stream full films or episodes.

Browse movies, TV series, and curated feeds such as Story Hunt. Title pages include synopses, cast, where-to-watch data from TMDb, and structured data for search engines. Personalised rails and your profile use optional Google sign-in (name, email, and account ID only to identify you — see the homepage section "What we collect and why"). The catalogue remains readable without an account.

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