Larry W. Underwood is an American actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 best known for his portrayal of Dr. Gangrene

Dr. Gangrene

Dr. Gangrene is a writer, artist, and award winning television horror host based in the Middle Tennessee area, portrayed by Larry Underwood.-History:...

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Television career

Larry Underwood has appeared in a number of short films, as well as the documentary American Scary. However his best known work is as the Horror Host

Horror host

Horror hosts are a particular type of television presenter, often tasked with presenting low-grade films to television audiences. This tradition is primarily American, though there have been a few international hosts over the years.-Film Packages:...

Dr. Gangrene

Dr. Gangrene

Dr. Gangrene is a writer, artist, and award winning television horror host based in the Middle Tennessee area, portrayed by Larry Underwood.-History:...

 on the long running WNAB

WNAB

WNAB, virtual channel 58 is the CW-affiliated television station in Nashville, Tennessee. It is owned by Tennessee Broadcasting, although operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group under an outsourcing agreement. It currently serves as a sister station to WZTV and WUXP-TV. It is currently branded as...

 television program Creature Feature.

Comics

Underwood also printed a series of underground comics through his companies Volunteer Comics and Out of the Cellar Comics which he ran alongside his longtime creative partner, Chuck Angell. Among the books they published was "Best Cellars" which featured early work of Eric Powell (comic writer) in a pre-cursor to The Goon

The Goon

The Goon is a comic book series by Eric Powell. The series has a paranormal slant, with the average story concerning ghosts, ghouls, skunk-apes with an unnatural hunger for pies, extra-dimensional aliens, and mad scientists.-Publication history:...

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Personal life

Larry Underwood is married with three sons, and has resided in Hendersonville, Tennessee

Hendersonville, Tennessee

Hendersonville is a city in Sumner County, Tennessee, United States, on Old Hickory Lake. The population was 51,372 at the 2010 census. Hendersonville is part of the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located 18 miles northeast of downtown Nashville. The city was settled around 1784 by...

, just north of Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

 since 1996.

External links

• Larry Underwood interview on (re)Search my Trash