Jerome Bernard "Jerry" Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer.He was best known as Lennie Briscoe in the Law & … Sadly, in 2004 it was learned that his cancer had spread. He played El Gallo in The Fantasticks and won a Tony Award in 1969 for his role in Promises. Curtis has a scuffle with a man in a holding cell and is ordered by Anita Van Burento take the day off. See more ideas about jerry orbach, law and order, law and order svu. Kincaid decides to take a sick day, while McCoy returns to the office. Lennie Briscoe: Home Alone is a movie, not an alibi. \r\rHe had served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, and attained the rank of corporal. In Law & Order …Detective Lennie Briscoe (played by Jerry Orbach, 1992–2004), District Attorney Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston, 1994–2010), Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth, 1990–95), Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy, 1993–96), Detective Reynaldo Curtis (Benjamin Bratt, 1995–99), District Attorney Arthur Branch (Fred Thompson, 2002–07), and Lieut. Lennie Briscoe : My screw ups? With Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston. The actor was 69. Briscoe and Curtis have the day off, but Curtis decides to finish up some paperwork. Although he appeared in the popular show MURDER, SHE WROTE, Orbach was best known on television for his portrayal of the hard-bitten detective Lennie Briscoe in the long-running LAW & … \r\rHis daughter Cathy was arrested for drug possession, and was murdered after testifying in court against the dealer. Det. The only child of Emily (nee O'Lexy), a greeting card manufacturer, and Leon Orbach, a restaurant manager. Jerry Orbach was a consummate professional, incredible performer, and one of the nicest guys in the business. Lennie Briscoe: I’m trying to decide what to arrest you for, obstruction of justice, harboring a fugitive or just being a general pain in the ass! (L\u0026O: Nowhere Man) \r\rAfter leaving the homicide division of the NYPD, Briscoe joined the District Attorney's office, becoming a DA Investigator alongside Hector Salazar. ', Herman Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for 'Citizen Kane.'. Lennie Briscoe. Orbach's best known TV role was as Detective Lennie Briscoe on Law & Order. Briscoe's Final Year (2003-2004)\r\rCOPY/PASTE \u0026fmt=18 AT THE END OF THE URL TO VIEW THIS IN HIGH QUALITY! In the fall of 1955, Orbach decided to forego his senior year at Northwestern and move to New York City, where he found work as an understudy in The Threepenny Opera. Launching off from his illustrious theater career, Orbach began to move increasingly toward roles in film and television in the 1980s and 1990s. Jerry Orbach was born in the Bronx, New York, the only child of Leon Orbach, a former vaudevillian actor, was a German Jewish immigrant, who was born in Hamburg, Germany, and Emily (nee Olexy), a radio singer, was born in Pennsylvania to immigrant Polish-Lithuanian Roman Catholic parents, Alexander Olexy and Susanna (nee Klauba). He then lent his voice and personality to the loquacious lantern, Lumiere, in the animated musical Beauty and the Beast (1991). With Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston. Detective Ed Green : Well, maybe I take chances because my partner can't get it up. 1.9k. He was loved by all. Jack McCoy, Claire Kincaid, Lennie Briscoe and Rey Curtisattend the execution of a man each had a part in helping to convict. In 1959, he received two simultaneous acting offers, one for a Broadway production paying $250 a week and the other for an off-Broadway show paying only $45 a week. Since Logan was expelled to Staten Island in 1995, Briscoe has worked with Detective Reynaldo Curtis and later Ed Green. Currently there is a YouTube channel under Lennie Briscoe. Orbach first appeared on the critically acclaimed NBC series Law & Order in 1990, and in 1992, landed a regular role on the show, playing the quick-witted and sharp-tongued Detective Lennie Briscoe. Your stuff's been getting thrown out of court ever since you got here. In 1979, Orbach married Elaine Cancilla, who had replaced Chita Rivera as his co-star in the 1975 production of Chicago. https://www.biography.com/actor/jerry-orbach. Directed by Caleb Deschanel. Briscoe and Curtis serve an arrest warrant on a Hollywood director in the film-executive murder case. Logan is partnered up with Lennie Briscoe, and Ceretta tells Logan that he isn't returning to the precinct after his shooting. Jerry Orbach, Actor: Law & Order. See more ideas about jerry orbach, actors & actresses, actors. He had left “Law & Order” last season with the retirement of his character, Det.