Mitch Laurance

Mitch Laurance is an American actor and sports broadcaster, best known for HBO’s “Not Necessarily the News “during the 1980s and recurring roles on TV series like L.A. Law, Reasonable Doubts, Matlock and Dawson’s Creek. Mitch also made guest appearances on shows such as Laverne & Shirley, The Outer Limits, One Tree Hill, Night Court, Prison Break, MacGyver, Beauty and the Beast, Midnight Caller, Empty Nest, and Jake and the Fatman, and played Ben Arnold in the soap opera Santa Barbara. He acted in feature films such as Stepfather II, The Runestone, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Urban Mythology, and numerous TV movies. He also appeared in numerous TV Movies with such iconic stars as Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Karl Malden, Kris Kristofferson and Henry Winkler, as well as in Tom Hanks’ award-winning HBO Miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon”. Mitch has been a sports-talk host at WFMZ, a sports radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Play-by-Play commentator for ESPN Championship Billiards, and the host of over 450 golf podcasts over 3 shows, “Hooked on Hickories’, Golf Connections with Mitch Laurance, and the current ‘Talking GolfGetaways with Mitch and Darin’ on the Golf News Net platform. He is married to Ewa Mataya Laurance, a multiple times billiards world champion and, since 2004, a member of the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame . They reside in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.