Lorin McCraley was born in Kingman, Arizona. As a child, he grew up in
a myriad of locations across the American Southwest, before landing in
Cottonwood, Arizona. While there, he was an All-Conference football and
baseball player at Mingus Union High School. A football scholarship
took him to Scottsdale Community College, where a fist fight and a
resulting broken hand, forced him to miss his sophomore season, but
indirectly led to his discovery of acting. He received his B.A. in
Theatre from Ottawa University in Ottawa Kansas. At Ottawa he was a
Captain on the football team and received All-KCAC honors. He left the
M.F.A. professional acting program at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City early to pursue a career in Los Angeles. In his first month in LA
he received his SAG card after the impromptu stealing of a purse as an
extra during a take of the television show "Double Rush". After being
immediately fired by the 1st AD, he was invited back by the director,
Michael Lembeck. Upon arriving on set the next morning, he was given
his first line on television: "All right Rock-n-Roll!", and the coveted
SAG card. Years of treading the boards on the stages of LA eventually
led to Lorin carving out his own niche on screen as a Hollywood heavy.
Arguably one of the few Little League baseball coaches in America whose
day job consists of being a serial killer, a wanna-be vampire, and a
homicidal cowboy. In addition to his flourishing career as an actor,
Lorin, along with writing partner Edward Cieplinski, has three
screenplays (Boone Helm Kentucky Cannibal, Jersey City German Shepherd,
and Most Popular Corpse) in various levels of development.
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction(1997)as Henry Ziegland
Babushka(2025)as Russian Orthodox Priest
With Love(2021)as Bob
Hank(2022)as Jackson McDowell
Paydirt(2020)as Rosco
Boone
On the Set W Jasper Cole(2013)as Self - Guest
The Colony(2009)as Marauder
The Jamie Kennedy Experiment(2002)as Lionel
