John Larkin

John Larkin is the name of several individuals:

*John Larkin (cricketer) (died 1782), English player prominent during the 1749 English cricket season
*John Larkin (Boston deacon) (died 1808), American religious leader who, as deacon of the Old North Church in Boston, provided the horse ridden by Paul Revere following the hanging of warning lanterns in that church
*John Larkin (priest) [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38142] (1801–1858), English preacher and instructor; Sulpician Roman Catholic priest prominent during the 1840s and 1850s in Lower Canada and the United States
*John Larkin (movie actor) (1879–1936) African-American actor who played numerous small roles in movies between 1931 and 1936, invariably cast as servants or other menials; appeared also in a few films during the early silent period, starting in 1911.
*John (Francis) Larkin (1901–1965), American screenwriter, prolific during the 1940s; directed two films—1942's "Quiet Please, Murder", which he also scripted, and 1945's "Circumstantial Evidence"
*John Larkin (radio and television actor) (1912–1965), American actor best known for his long-running radio portrayal of "Perry Mason" and starring role as attorney Mike Karr on TV daytime drama "The Edge of Night" from 1956 to 1961; between 1962 and 1965 made many TV guest appearances and had prominent supporting roles in two TV series and three films
*John Paul Larkin (1942–1999), American jazz musician renowned as the scat-singing "Scatman John"
*John Larking, Australian actor remembered for his portrayals of Vince Talbot in 1980 and Joe McCormack in 1986 on the TV series "Prisoner"; occasionally billed as "John Larkin"
*John Patrick Larkin (born 1965), American community activist and non-profit worker; married Irish Catholic who has served in Queens and the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn
*John Charles Larkin (born 1968), Spanish-Irish-American writer, producer and director of show business documentaries whose subjects have included "Ocean's Eleven", KISS, Dean Martin, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and Bettie Page; co-founded a Los Angeles comedy troupe in the 1990s and was the lead singer in a punk band; usually billed as "Carlos Larkin"

ee also

*Larkin