Where’ve I Seen that Face? L.A. Noire’s Character Actor Line-Up: Detective Biggs, Gloria Bishop, Captain Gordon Leary and More
With L.A. Noire now available worldwide, players working their way through the game are bound to come across various actors from the worlds of television and film that may look familiar (fans of Mad Men are sure to recognize many faces beyond Aaron Staton, who plays Detective Cole Phelps).
So for those that may have a burning question about where they may recognize some of these character actors from, we present the debut edition of Where’ve I Seen that Face? L.A. Noire’s Character Actor Line-Up.

Arson Detective Herscel Biggs is played by Keith Szarabajka, who you may recognize from his role as Detective Stephens in The Dark Knight, or from his turns on the small screen as vampire hunter Daniel Holtz in Angel and mercenary Robert Morrison during season 4 of 24.

Gloria Bishop, the wife of film producer Mark Bishop and a person of interest in "The Fallen Idol" Traffic desk case is played by Carla Gallo. In addition to a litany of roles in some of writer/director/producer Judd Apatow's most popular work (Undeclared, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall among them), Carla's also been a frequent guest star on both Bones and Californication.

In addition to recent appearances on Mad Men and The Event, Ned Vaughn, who plays Traffic desk Captain Gordon Leary, has a long history of character roles in action-oriented film and television. His resume includes 24, Heroes, Murder One, China Beach, The Hunt for Red October and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Courtney Gains plays Eli Rooney, one of the suspects in the Golden Butterfly case. In addition to a role in Back to the Future, Gains is known for his roles as superstitious gunner Sgt. Eugene McVey in Memphis Belle, and most memorably as Malachai in the 1984 film adaptation of Stephen King's Children of the Corn.

Brian Krause, who plays shopkeeper Clem Feeney, is probably most recognizable as Leo Wyatt on Aaron Spelling's long-running TV show Charmed. Additionally, Krause starred opposite Milla Jovovich in Return to the Blue Lagoon, and has also appeared in episodes of CSI: Miami, Mad Men and Castle.
Look for more character actor line-ups in the weeks ahead, and be sure to let us know in the comments if there's somebody you recognize in L.A. Noire but you just can't put your finger on where you remember them from.
- BrainDead928on September 7 2011, 7:10pmReplyFlagEli Rooney is one creepy S.O.B.
- on July 4 2011, 12:25pmThis is some great stuff. Playing through the game several times I had that feeling "I've seen this guy/girl before."
More of those acrticles, please! - on June 29 2011, 7:03pmWhenever I see Courtney Gains, I think of Bruce Dern eyeballing him in The 'Burbs.
Klopek? What is that... Slavic?!
HEY PINOCCHIO! WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOIN?! - on June 20 2011, 11:32amAnyone notice Patrick Fischler that plays Mickey Cohen he has had tons of small roles!!! Like: Black Dahlia, Lost, Twister, and like so many of the actors...Mad Men
- on June 20 2011, 3:30amLoved that guy in The Dark Knight. It would be real shame if he isn't in The Dark Knight Rises. He made a good impression with a small, but memorable role.
on June 18 2011, 7:59pm@NiceFella Haha - yes, he's also well known for playing the sidekick to Patrick Dempsey in "Can't Buy Me Love" from the 80s- on June 17 2011, 3:04pmKurt Fuller who played Archangel Zachariah in Supernatural is car salesman Richard Coombs in the case A Slip Of The Tongue
on June 15 2011, 11:03am@Namssorg @lordemil @NikkyFlippers & others, good stuff guys, we'll have another article in the weeks ahead- on June 15 2011, 10:52amI can swear that the Bar Man from El Dorado (In the same case where Clem Finney Appears) Is Carl, the barman of McLaren's in How I Met Your Mother.
- on June 15 2011, 10:09amWow - I *thought* that was Holtz from Angel! That bring the total to three people from Angel in L.A. Noire: Holtz, Vonnor and the guy who plays Mickey Cohen was a conspiracy theorist who worked at a bookstore in the fourth season.
- on June 15 2011, 3:47amI love it how there are some actors from Mad Men in L.A. Noire, such as, of course, Aaron Staton, Andy Umberger and Vincent Kartheiser. Anyone else, Rockstar?
- on June 14 2011, 11:30pmMatt Parkman in Heroes, real name Greg Grunberg.
he was in "The Golden Butterfly" homicide case. - on June 14 2011, 8:01pmAnyone recognize this guy (Max Adler), Karofsky from GLEE? http://imgur.com/A6oTZ
on June 14 2011, 2:07pm@JustoDaDon Nice catch, you're right- on June 14 2011, 1:38pm"I was watching an episode of Lost on netflix the other day and I couldnt figure out why one of the characters looked so familiar, then I popped in La Noire and I realized it was the captain, I thinks his name was Capt. Donnelly. I thought that was pretty cool. "
I recognized him right away too. He was also Blumburg on the show Felicity and I think he was on the show Heroes too. - on June 14 2011, 12:34pmThis is awesome.. Now its gonna be like "hey, this is the dude from L.A Noire.."
- on June 14 2011, 12:20pmI was watching an episode of Lost on netflix the other day and I couldnt figure out why one of the characters looked so familiar, then I popped in La Noire and I realized it was the captain, I thinks his name was Capt. Donnelly. I thought that was pretty cool.
















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