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Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as "one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television" [ 1] and a "versatile stage and film actor". [ 2] .
Jerry Orbach. Actor: Law & Order. 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 ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Jerry Orbach was a Tony Award-winning American actor best known for his role as Detective Lennie Briscoe on 'Law & Order.'
Dec 30, 2004 · Orbach, who died of prostate cancer Tuesday in Manhattan, was beginning another chapter at age 69: He had taken his signature role as Detective Lennie Briscoe to NBC’s upcoming spinoff “Law &...
W. 53rd St. in Manhattan has been named Jerry Orbach Way. He appeared in 274 episodes of Law & Order (1990), more than anyone else except for S. Epatha Merkerson and Sam Waterston. Played the uncle of his real-life son, Chris Orbach, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).
Dec 29, 2004 · Jerry Orbach, who won fame on the New York stage as one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television as a New York detective on NBC's "Law &...
Dec 29, 2004 · NEW YORK — Actor Jerry Orbach, who played a sardonic, seen-it-all cop on TV’s “Law & Order” and scored on Broadway as a song-and-dance man, has died of prostate cancer at 69, a representative...