Lord Lawrence Wolf

I love you

Larry was one of my oldest friends. He performed in several of my earliest performance works, and was a regular actor in most of Robert Downey(Sr)'s films. As both friend & performance collaborator, the relationship was, without exception, smooth, fun and profound all at once.
I used to visit him on the film set of 'Pound' ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066234 )
in which he played a Mexican hairless dog about to be euthanized, & had a scene with Robert Downey Jr, age 5, playing a puppy in Jr's first ever speaking film role.
It's nothing but understatement to say that Larry was an extraordinary actor and person. There's nobody even remotely like him -- and he was (this 'was' is difficult to write) full of heart, funny as hell, a staunch and loyal friend for decades.
Like Mike Nichols, Larry had alopecia & lost all the hair on his body shortly after high school. He embraced this unusual & striking look. He played both God & the Devil in 'Castle of Perseverance', a work I created in 1977 based on the earliest script written in the English language. In this photo, though he's playing God, he looks like an angel -- which is what he is now.
I somehow thought he would never die.
Larry was capable of infinite love. He was completely and utterly in love with his wife Nancy & she with him.
I'll be grieving his loss for a long time, and send his wife Nancy & sons Adam & Peter loads of warmth during this time of heartbreak.

Larry introduced me to the wild and funny and tender and musical aspects of NYC when I was a naive 20-something, newly living in the city and he was the wise guy something or other. What a lucky happenstance! He helped me find my way ... Including all the joy along the way! I am forever grateful and eternally saddened that he is no longer singing. No longer pontificating. No longer laughing. No longer holding me in his large and fussy heart. I am so sorry for his family's loss and sending love to Nancy and their boys ... oxox Patricia Horn O'Brien