1903年出生，16岁登台演唱，18岁进入百老汇，1927年在银幕亮相，因为能歌善舞，在有声片初期非常走红，30年代末名声大减后淡出影坛。 代表作：《亲密的和谐》、《青春年华》等。
1904年1目18日，英国布里斯托尔一个贫穷的家庭里诞生了一名男婴，取名阿奇博尔德·亚历山大·里奇（Archibald Alexander Leach），他是家里唯一的孩子，6岁时随父亲看戏团表演而深受吸引，到了九岁的某一天，小里奇放学回家被告之母亲去了度假，直到廿多几他才知道事实上母亲是发疯进了精神病院...
Discovered on Broadway by director Howard Hawks, La Rue was originally brought to Hollywood to play a gangster in Scarface (1932). He lost that role to George Raft, and similarly was replaced by Humphrey Bogart in the film version of The Petrified Forest (1936). Eventually, he became well-known to movie-goers as a mean, sexy gangster type in sadistic roles like Miriam Hopkins' abductor in The Story of Temple Drake (1933). Film audiences, who loved to loathe him on-screen, were occasionally surprised by his being cast against type in such movies as A Farewell to Arms (1932). His final film was in the low-budget film Paesano: A Voice in the Night (1977).
