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"Law & Order" Star Orbach Dead
Jerry Orbach, who patrolled NBC's Law & Order beat for the last 12 seasons as sardonic Detective Lennie Briscoe, has died of prostate cancer, his publicist said Wednesday. He was 69.
Orbach died Tuesday night in Manhattan. Earlier this month, Orbach's manager, Robert Malcolm, confirmed that the veteran actor had been diagnosed with the disease and had been undergoing treatment since last spring, but said that Orbach's prognosis was good.
"We expect he'll be fine," Malcolm told the New York Daily News. "He's been playing golf, shooting his episodes and doing real well."
Orbach left Law & Order at the end of last season and was due to appear in a new spinoff series, Law & Order: Trail by Jury, scheduled to debut in early 2005. No word on how the series, the fourth installment in Dick Wolf's L&O franchise, will deal with Orbach's passing, but the show remains in production, and Briscoe is still slated to appear in early episodes, Wolf's office said. The cast also includes Candice Bergen, Bebe Neuwirth and Fred Thompson.
"I'm immensely saddened by the passing of not only a friend and colleague, but a legendary figure of 20th century show business," Wolf said in a statement. "He was one of the most honored performers of his generation. His loss is irreplaceable."
During his years on L&O, Orbach netted one Emmy nomination for Lead Actor and seven Screen Actors Guild nominations as part of the show's ensemble cast.
Apart from playing the wisecracking, tough-talking Briscoe on the small screen for the last decade-plus, the Bronx-born Orbach's credits extended to both the stage and cinema.
On the New York stage, Orbach created the roles of El Gallo in the long-running off-Broadway sensation The Fantasticks, Billy Flynn in Chicago and Julian Marsh in 42nd Street.
Orbach won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Promises, Promises in 1969 and was nominated for Tonys for his performances in Guys and Dolls in 1965 and Chicago in 1976. Broadway producers will dim marquee lights for one minute at curtain time Wednesday night in Orbach's memory.
To film fans, Orbach is best remembered as Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey)'s stern but loving father in 1987's cult classic, Dirty Dancing and as the voice of the cheery candelabra Lumiere in 1991's Oscar-nominated animated feature Beauty and the Beast. His big-screen résumé also included the 1989 Woody Allen film Crimes and Misdemeanors, the 1981 crime drama Prince of the City and the 1992 action flick Universal Soldier.
Orbach is survived by his second wife, Elaine, whom he met working on Chicago and married in 1979, and two grown sons, Chris and Tony, from his first marriage.
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