He is played by Ben Stiller, who also played Greg Focker, Alex the Lion, and Derek Zoolander. Larry Daley was a man who had trouble finding work his inventing career did not take off for a while so he found employment at The Museum Of Natural History as a night guard. When he found out that everything came to life he wanted to quit but then he realised that he needed to protect the tablet of Akhmenrah of everything in the museum turns to dust.