Question:  Larry Cedar is known for playing Leon, the opium-addicted thief and dealer of a French gambling card game from what century?
Context: Speculation is a simple gambling card game that was popular in the late 18th century and early 19th century. 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". Thirty-one (French "Trente et un") is a gambling card game played by two to seven people, where players attempt to assemble a hand which totals 31.  Such a goal has formed the whole or part of various games like Commerce, Cribbage, Trentuno, and Wit and Reason since the 15th century. Bing rummy is a variant of kalooki (a rummy-based gambling card game) invented in the mining towns of Alaska.  The game can be played with 2 to 8 players but works best with 3 to 6 players.  It is unknown how the game came to be called “bing” although it may be because of the mining terms: unit of weight equal to 800 pounds, or a pile of rich lead ore.  It is probably the second definition that gives the game its name referring to the pile of coins that accumulate throughout the game; especially as it is the Galena lead mines that popularized the term “bing ore”.  These mines opened in 1919 about the time the game was developed. Faro, "Pharaoh", or "Farobank" is a late 17th-century French gambling card game.  It is descended from basset, and belongs to the lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players.  Winning or losing occurs when cards turned up by the banker match those already exposed. Bouillotte is an 18th-century French gambling card game of the Revolution based on Brelan, very popular during the 19th century in France and again for some years from 1830.  It was also popular in America.  The game is regarded as one of the games that influenced the open-card stud variation in poker.  It also gave rise to the Bouillotte lamp, consisting of one or several candlesticks with a central standard equipped with a non-flammable adjustable shade.  often made of tôle, a painted or lacquered metal, reflective white on the inside, dark on the outside, that could be lowered as the candles burned down. Monte Bank, Mountebank, Spanish Monte and Mexican Monte, sometimes just Monte, is a Spanish gambling card game and was known in the 19th century as the national card game of Mexico.  It ultimately derives from basset, where the banker (dealer) pays on matching cards.  The term "monte" has also been used for a variety of other gambling games, especially varieties of three-card poker, and for the swindle three-card monte. Trente et Quarante (Thirty and Forty), also called Rouge et Noir (Red and Black), is a 17th-century gambling card game of French origin played with cards and a special table.  It is rarely found in US casinos, but still very popular in Continental European casinos, especially in France, Italy, and Monaco.  It is a simple game that usually gives the players a very good expected return of more than 98%. Madiao (), also Ma Diao, Ma Tiu or Ma Tiao, is a late imperial Chinese trick-taking gambling card game, also known as the game of "Paper Tiger."  The deck used was recorded by Lu Rong in the 15th century and the rules later by Pan Zhiheng and Feng Menglong during the early 17th century.  Korean poet Jang Hon (1759-1828) wrote that the game dates back to the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368).  It continued to be popular during the Qing dynasty until around the mid-19th century.  The game was also known in Japan from at least 1791.  It is played with 40 cards and four players. Pok Deng (Thai: ป๊อกเด้ง ) is a Thai gambling card game in which players aim for a hand whose ones digit beats the dealer's, while taking into account pairs, three of a kinds, and flushes.  The game is also known as Pok Kao (Thai: ป๊อกเก้า , "kao" means "nine") or Pok Paet Pok Kao (Thai: ป๊อกแปดป๊อกเก้า , "paet" means "eight") due to eights and nines being high, desirable values.
Answer: 17th-century