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Jerry Orbach
Age: 69 (passed away Dec. 28th, 2004)
Height: 6' 2"
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Oct. 20th, 1935
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BIOGRAPHY: Jerry was born in the Bronx. His father, Leon, was a former vaudevillian actor and his mother, Emily, was a radio singer. His family moved frequently and eventually settled in Waukegan, Illinois where he went to high school. The constant moving made him the new kid on the block and forced him to become "a chameleon" to blend in his new settings. He studied drama at the University of Illinois and at Northwestern. He then went to study acting in New York and got constant work in musicals. He slowly pushed to get acting roles in tv and movies, but was frequently overlooked because of his musical roots.
TRIVIA:
- Appeared in episodes of three different series with 'Jesse L. Martin' (qv): _"Law & Order" (1990)_ (qv), _"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999)_ (qv) and _"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)_ (qv).
- Made his Broadway stage debut as Smith, the Police Constable, in "The Threepenny Opera".
- 'Jesse L. Martin' (qv) performed the song "Razzle Dazzle" from the musical "Chicago" at the 2005 Tony Awards just as the "In Memoriam" section of the show was finishing. The last photo shown during the memorial was that of Orbach, who was both Martin's costar on _"Law & Order" (1990)_ (qv) and the first person to perform "Razzle Dazzle" in the original Broadway production of "Chicago".
- He played the same character (Detective Lennie Briscoe) in five different television series: _"Law & Order" (1990)_ (qv), _"Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993)_ (qv), _"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999)_ (qv), _"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)_ (qv) and _"Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005)_ (qv).
- On _"Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005)_ (qv), when he was so ill that he couldn't speak above a whisper, they rewrote the scene so that he and the other characters around him all had reason to whisper (outside of a courtroom door).
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 405-407. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
- According to his book "Hollywood Animal", 'Joe Eszterhas' (qv) said that when he was down and out, Orbach would fill his station wagon with groceries and deliver them to his house.
- The New York Landmark Conservancy declared him a Living Landmark.
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