Early in his career, John Larroquette's first major asset was his smooth speaking voice. He put it to good use as a New Orleans disc jockey, but went on to make more of an impression with it as the narrator of the cult film classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." He got in front of a camera the next year on television's "Doctor's Hospital" and then landed a regular role on "Baa Baa Black Sheep," a World War II series that ran from 1976 to 1978. Small movie parts gave way to his breakthrough in 1983 with the role of philandering prosecutor Dan Fielding on the hit sitcom "Night Court," a part which earned him four consecutive Emmy Awards. 

Larroquette took enough time off from the series to appear in a string of movies, and in 1993 he got his own series in 1993. "The John Larroquette Show," a well-watched and well-reviewed program, allowed him to play a recovering alcoholic, a role that wasn't much of a stretch. A prolific drinker during the '70s, the actor got sober in 1982 and has spent much of his time sharing his story so that others suffering from the same disease might realize there is a way out of the sickness and insanity of alcoholism.

Larroquette won his fifth Emmy in 1998 as a guest-star in two episodes of the legal drama "The Practice," receiving an additional Emmy nomination in 2002 for his reappearance in the series. In his most recent series, "Happy Family," he played an exasperated dentist and father whose newly adult children couldn't seem to grasp the concept of leaving the family nest. Larroquette also starred as Oscar Madison in Neil Simon's "Felix and Oscar," a revised version of "The Odd Couple," staged at the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles. Additionally, he hosts the A&E show "The Incurable Collector," a one-hour series that focuses on the passion for collecting and the endless hunt for the ultimate collectible. Larroquette is an avid collector of more than 2,000 modern first edition books, as well as antique fountain pens, cameras, photographs, and watches.