Larry Cedar is known for playing Leon, the opium-addicted thief and dealer of a French gambling card game from what century?
Larry Cedar Larry Cedar (born March 6, 1955) is an American actor and a voice actor best known as one of the players of the highly acclaimed Children's Television Workshop mathematics show "Square One TV" on PBS from 1987 to 1994. He also played Alex the Butcher in a series of commercials for Kroger in 1989. Cedar is also known for playing Leon, the opium-addicted thief and faro dealer, in the internationally acclaimed HBO series, "Deadwood".
French playing cards French playing cards ("jeu de cartes") are cards that use the French suits of "trèfles" (clovers or clubs ♣ ), "carreaux" (tiles or diamonds ), "cœurs" (hearts ♥ ), and "piques" (pikes or spades ♠ ). Each suit contains three face cards; the "valet" (knave or jack), the "dame" (lady or queen), and the "roi" (king). Aside from these aspects, decks can include a wide variety of regional and national patterns which often have different deck sizes. In comparison to Spanish, Italian, German, and Swiss playing cards, French cards are the most widespread due to the geopolitical, commercial, and cultural influence of France and the United Kingdom in the past two centuries. Another reason for their expansion was the simplicity of the suit insignia which simplifies mass production and the popularity of whist, contract bridge, and the recent poker boom.