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Younger son Chris Orbach is an actor and a singer; he played Lennie Briscoe's nephew Ken Briscoe during the first season of Special Victims Unit. In 1979, Jerry Orbach married Broadway dancer Elaine Cancilla, whom he met while starring in Chicago. [20] [21]
Jerry Orbach in the Broadway production of Chicago in 1975. Jerry Orbach was an American actor of the stage and screen. Orbach is most known for his long-running leading role as Det. Lenny Briscoe in Law & Order from 1992 to 2004. He also made appearances on Murder, She Wrote and The Golden Girls.
Jerry Orbach was an American actor of the stage and screen. For his stage work he received three Tony Award nominations. His first nomination was for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Guys and Dolls in 1965. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in Promises, Promises in 1969.
He was created by Walon Green and René Balcer and portrayed by Jerry Orbach. [1] [2] He was featured on the show for 12 seasons, from 1992 to 2004, making him one of the longest-serving main characters in the series' history, as well as the longest-serving police detective on the show.
Unfortunately, one cast member was noticeably absent — Lennie Briscoe, who was played by Jerry Orbach. Orbach died of cancer in 2004, six years before the original series finale.
Altogether, he was the fifth-longest serving cast member behind S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston, Jerry Orbach, and Steven Hill. He had a brief hiatus at the end of the 2004–2005 season while he was filming the movie adaptation of Rent in which he reprised the role of Tom Collins.
Bronx native Jerry Orbach made his film debut in an uncredited role as a ballroom patron. Chayefsky had an uncredited cameo as Leo. Chayefsky had an uncredited cameo as Leo. The role of Clara initially was going to be reprised by actress Nancy Marchand , later of Lou Grant and The Sopranos fame, who had portrayed the character in the television ...
The Fantasticks premiered at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, a small off-Broadway theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, on May 3, 1960, with Jerry Orbach as El Gallo, Rita Gardner as Luisa, Kenneth Nelson as Matt, and librettist Tom Jones (under a pseudonym) as the Old Actor, among the cast members. [17]