Biography
Lou David was a hulking and intimidating actor who was usually cast as menacing bad guys in a handful of movies made in the 70s and 80s. He made his film debut as an Italian mobster in the funky blaxploitation outing "Come Back, Charleston Blue." David had a funny bit part as a mugger in the delightful cross country car race romp "The Gumball Rally." Lou achieved his greatest enduring cult popularity as Cropsy, a mean, vicious and grotesquely disfigured summer camp caretaker who exacts a harsh r...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Last Dragon
1985
as Headline Killer
A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial...
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
1984
as Mr. T
A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlf...
The Burning
1981
as Cropsy
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back...
The Ivory Ape
1980
as Roomie Pope
An ivory ape escapes from a freighter and makes its way to Bermuda. Two anthropologists want to save it, but the local authorities hire a big-game hun...
The Gumball Rally
1976
as Mugger
A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know th...
Fore Play
1975
as SS #9
A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.