Biographie

Bluffed his way into the "bullwhip" movies telling director Robert Emmett Tansey he knew how to use one when he didn't. The studio liked his acting work anyway and later hired a true expert, Rex 'Snowy' Baker, to teach him how to use it. La Rue in turn taught Harrison Ford for his "Indiana Jones" movies.

He unwittingly played a fully clothed villain in what turned out to be an adult film entitled La chevauchée érotique (1972). The sex scenes were later shot and inserted around the scenes he previously filmed. Shocked by this, he later became a born-again Christian and turned into a high-voltage evangelist in some sort of act of repentance. He also performed whip and gun stunts for the Florida-based Hollywood Western Revue for the Lord.

Lash LaRue comic books sold over one million copies each around the world and many of them featured Lash and wife Barbra Fuller's godson, J.P. Sloane; in fact, Sloane was the only child ever to appear on the "Six-Gun Heroes" comic books when he appeared with Lash on the cover of issue 19.

LaRue's film sidekick, toothless, grizzled Al St. John, was formerly a member of the Keystone Kops, Their first pairing was Law of the Lash (1947).

Beset with alcohol problems, he was arrested in 1966 for vagrancy in Miami, Florida.