Leonard Harris (September 27, 1929 – August 28, 2011)[1] was an American actor, critic and author.
Despite his short acting career, he is well-known for his roles as Senator Charles Palantine in Taxi Driver (1976) and the mayor in Hero at Large (1980).
He graduated from City College and served in the U.S. Army at Fort Dix during the Korean War.
He also had homes in Stanfordville, N.Y. and West Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Harris began his career writing obituaries and book reviews for the Hartford Courant in 1958.
His first novel, The Masada Plan, was called "gripping, fast-moving, expertly engineered" by the novelist Meyer Levin in The New York Times Book Review.