Lawrence H. "Larry" Toffler (born February 6, 1963) is an actor and American game show host who was 21 years old and working as a tour guide at Universal Studios Hollywood (after a successful stint at the Bennigans in Englewood, NJ) when he was given the job of hosting Finders Keepers. He hosted the syndicated edition for one season before the show moved back to Nickelodeon with reruns of both his version and the Nickelodeon version with Wesley Eure

Wesley Eure

Wesley Eure is an American actor.Eure came to prominence when he appeared in two long running television series in the 1970s, Days of our Lives and Land of the Lost. For several years, he appeared in both shows simultaneously...

.

Toffler was later a contestant on several game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

s, including Greed

Greed (game show)

Greed is an American television game show that aired on Fox from November 4, 1999 until July 14, 2000. The game consisted of a team of contestants who answered a series of multiple-choice questions for a potential prize of up to $2 million...

and Debt

Debt (game show)

Debt is an American game show hosted by Wink Martindale, which aired on Lifetime from June 3, 1996 to August 14, 1998. The show featured contestants who were trying to earn money to get out of debt.-Gameplay:...

. On October 14, 2002 he appeared on Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette (game show)

Russian Roulette is an American game show created by executive producer Gunnar Wetterberg that ran for two seasons on Game Show Network from June 3, 2002 to June 13, 2003. It was hosted by Mark L. Walberg, with Burton Richardson announcing. Todd Newton hosted an April Fool's Day episode in 2003....

(but was eliminated in Round 2), then appeared on Catch-21

Catch 21

Catch 21 is an American game show centered around blackjack, created by Merrill Heatter and taped at the Hollywood Center Studios...

on July 1, 2009 (he busted himself in Round 1, but won the game and $1,000 in the bonus round). Although this made him one of a few game show hosts to have been both a contestant and a host, Toffler is the only one to be a game show contestant after becoming a host.

Toffler also appeared in bit roles on Monk

Monk (TV series)

Monk is an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk. It originally ran from 2002 to 2009 and is primarily a mystery series, although it has dark and comic touches.The series debuted on July...

and Joey

Joey (TV series)

Joey is an American sitcom, which stars Matt LeBlanc reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani from the sitcom Friends. It premiered on the NBC television network, on September 9, 2004, in the former time slot of its parent series, Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m...

. He currently runs a live interactive game company.