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He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His last major television role was in HBO 's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012. Early life and police career.
Dennis Farina was an actor who played Detective Joe Fontana in Law & Order. His character replaced Lennie Briscoe ( Jerry Orbach) as a detective on the series. He first appeared in the Season 15 episode "Paradigm".
Jul 22, 2013 · Actor Dennis Farina, the Chicago cop turned actor who played Det. Joe Fontana on TV's "Law & Order" and also starred in numerous movies, died Monday at age 69, his publicist tells NBC News. The...
Jul 23, 2013 · NEW YORK (AP) — Dennis Farina, a onetime Chicago cop who as a popular character actor played a TV cop on “Law & Order” during his wide-ranging career, has died.
Farina proved adept at both drama and comedy, as his turn as gangster Ray "Bones" Barboni, John Travolta's rival in Get Shorty (1995) attested to. In addition to "Crime Story", he also had a major role on Law & Order (1990), essentially replacing Jerry Orbach's character.
- February 29, 1944
- July 22, 2013
Jul 22, 2013 · NEW YORK (AP) — Dennis Farina, a onetime Chicago cop who as a popular actor played a cop on “Law & Order,” has died. Farina died Monday morning in a Scottsdale, Arizona, hospital after suffering a blood clot in his lung, according to his publicist, Lori De Waal. He was 69.
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Jul 22, 2013 · Dennis Farina, a former police officer who rose to fame in TV’s Crime Story and the big-screen Midnight Run in the mid-’80s, then went on to create memorable roles on Law & Order, Luck and...
