Lenny Briscoe passes away....

[Box and one]

Damn,Lenny Briscoe better known as Jerry Orbach passed away today of prostrate cancer.
One of my favorite actors.Got to see him in the broadway play" Promises,Promises" many times.What a voice he had.
But his portrayal of NYPD detective Lenny Briscoe was my favorite.

 

[Another Steve]

He was one of my favorites also. I liked him playing Baby's dad. Wonder, did he leave the show due to heath reasons, I thought he was going to be in another show.

 

[AR182]

i also was a fan of orbach's.

i saw in also on broadway but in 42nd st.......his singing really surprised me.

may he rest in peace.

 

[Nole]

Did you know....he was the voice of the candlestick(can't remember his name) in "Beauty and the Beast". French accent and all. "Be our guest, be our guest....."

My wife is bumming(me too). She loves Law and Order.

nole

 

[Bif "The Hat"]

Jerry Orbach, who patrolled NBC's Law & Order beat for the last 12 seasons as sardonic Detective Lennie Briscoe, has died of prostate cancer, his publicist said Wednesday. He was 69.

Orbach died Tuesday night in Manhattan. Earlier this month, Orbach's manager, Robert Malcolm, confirmed that the veteran actor had been diagnosed with the disease and had been undergoing treatment since last spring, but said that Orbach's prognosis was good.

"We expect he'll be fine," Malcolm told the New York Daily News. "He's been playing golf, shooting his episodes and doing real well."

Orbach left Law & Order at the end of last season and was due to appear in a new spinoff series, Law & Order: Trail by Jury, scheduled to debut in early 2005. No word on how the series, the fourth installment in Dick Wolf's L&O franchise, will deal with Orbach's passing, but the show remains in production, and Briscoe is still slated to appear in early episodes.