Lavell Crawford - Wikipedia Lavell Crawford Lavell Crawford Crawford in 2008. Birth name Lavell Maurice Crawford St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Medium Stand - up, television Spouse DeShawn Crawford Children Lavell Maurice Crawford is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Huell Babineaux, the bodyguard, assistant, and pickpocket for Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and its spin - off Better Call Saul. Lavell also played the role of Gus Patch in the Netflix original movie The Ridiculous 6. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 References 4 External links Early life Crawford was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri, where he graduated in 1986. As a child, he suffered from numerous hardships, including a struggle with weight, a near - drowning at age ten, and abandonment by his father, who was a bodybuilder. However, as of 2010, the two have reconnected. Career Crawford frequently performed on BET 's ComicView in the 90 's. Lavell was a contestant on NBC 's Last Comic Standing in 2007, where in the two - hour season finale he lost to Jon Reep. In 2011 at the Roberts Orpheum Theatre in St. Louis, he recorded Lavell Crawford : Can a Brother Get Some Love. He went on to appear on the crime drama series Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman 's bodyguard Huell Babineaux, and on It 's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as a stand - up comedian going by the stage name Landslide. He also appeared in an episode of Tosh. 0, where he helps `` the worst stand - up comedian '' redeem himself. He has a small supporting role in the 2015 film American Ultra. Crawford has made multiple appearances on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore in 2015, both as a special correspondent and as a panel member. On Adult Swim, Crawford made a guest appearance in Aqua TV Show Show as Unbelievable Ron and a chimp alien. He also made a celebrity guest appearance in Squidbillies, as well as Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell. In 2017, he appeared on Better Call Saul, reprising his role as Huell Babineaux from Breaking Bad. References Jump up ^ `` Lavell Crawford ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Lavell Crawford getting the last laughs now ''. The Kansas City Star. August 23, 2007. p. E1. Jump up ^ `` ' Breaking Bad ' Q&A : Lavell Crawford Comes Clean on Huell ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 03. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lavell Crawford. Official website Lavell Crawford on IMDb Last Comic Standing season 5 Winner Jon Reep Other Finalists Lavell Crawford Gerry Dee Amy Schumer Ralph Harris Doug Benson Matt Kirshen Debra DiGiovanni Gina Yashere Dante Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series ( 2010 -- 2019 ) 2010 : Boardwalk Empire, season 1 Antonacci Buscemi Coleman Graham de la Huerta Laciura Macdonald Mol Palladino Piazza Pitt Shannon Sparks Stuhlbarg Weiner Whigham 2011 : Boardwalk Empire, season 2 Buscemi Chianese Clohessy Coleman Cox J. Gallina L. Gallina Graham Huston Laciura Lind Macdonald D. McTigue R. McTigue Mol B. Noon C. Noon O'Rourke Palladino Pennewill Piazza Pitt Shannon Sparks Stuhlbarg Van Wagner Whigham Williams Yusef 2012 : Downton Abbey, series 2 Bonneville Boyle Carmichael Carter Coyle Dockery Findlay Finneran Froggatt Glen Howes James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Nicol Nuttall Robb Smith Stevens Wilton 2013 : Breaking Bad, season 5, part II Bowen Brandt Cranston Crawford Fletcher Fraser Gunn Metzler Mitte Norris Odenkirk Paul Plemons Quezada Rankin Sane 2014 : Downton Abbey, series 4 Bonneville Carmichael Carter Coyle Dockery Doyle Froggatt James James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Milne Robb Smith Speleers Theobold Wilton 2015 : Downton Abbey, series 5 Bonneville Carmichael Carter Cassidy Coyle Dockery Doyle Froggatt James James - Collier Leech Logan McGovern McShera Nicol Ovenden Smith Wilton 2016 : Stranger Things, season 1 Brown Buono Chrest Dyer Harbour Heaton Keery Matarazzo McLaughlin Modine Morgan Reynolds Ryder Schnapp Steger Wolfhard Complete list ( 1994 -- 1999 ) ( 2000 -- 2009 ) ( 2010 -- present ) VIAF : 108092375 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lavell_Crawford&oldid=799969396 '' Categories : Living people 20th - century American comedians 21st - century American comedians 20th - century American male actors 21st - century American male actors African - American comedians American male film actors Male actors from St. Louis Last Comic Standing contestants African - American male actors American male television actors Comedians from Missouri Hidden categories : All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from September 2015 Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia فارسی Français Português Simple English Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 10 September 2017, at 22 : 12. 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Question: who is saul's bodyguard on breaking bad
Answer: Lavell Maurice Crawford