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- Birth nameLawrence Benjamin Bunker
- Larry Bunker was born on November 4, 1928 in Long Beach, California, USA. He was a producer, known for The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), A Boy and His Dog (1975) and One from the Heart (1981). He was married to Brandyn Bunker. He died on March 8, 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseBrandyn Bunker(? - March 8, 2005) (his death, 1 child)
- Jazz drummer and longtime movie studio percussionist. First film was Stalag 17 (1953); last was The Incredibles (2004).
- The Pianist Bill Evans had a huge influence in the jazz fraternity and particularly on the drummer Larry Bunker. Bunker seems to have taken it calmly in 1963 when Evans, who was playing a couple of weeks at a club in Bunker's home town of Los Angeles, called the drummer over from his seat at the bar and asked him to make up a trio.
- During the Sixties he played jazz as a sideman in Los Angeles with groups led by Bud Shank, Pete Jolly and Clare Fischer. He toured Australia backing Judy Garland in 1964 and in 1965 Japan with Stan Getz.
- The Gerry Mulligan Quartet had been in existence for only a few months when in 1953 Bunker replaced its drummer Chico Hamilton. Bunker moved into a band that included Mulligan, his trumpeter Chet Baker, Evans, and Art Pepper.
- American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist. A member of the Bill Evans Trio in the mid-1960s, he also played timpani with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
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