Jerry Orbach passed away Wednesday morning at age 69, according to New York radio station WINS, which reportedly got the news from Orbach’s manager, Robert Malcolm.
It comes as a bit of a shock because a) Orbach was first diagnosed with prostate cancer only earlier this month, and b) Orbach is one of the stars of NBC’s “Law & Order: Trial By Jury,” which is set to premiere early next year.
I confess that since the departure of Michael Moriarty I haven’t had much use for the original “Law & Order,” on which Orbach starred for 12 years, but I loved Orbach’s work in “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (he was Martin Landau’s shady brother), “Beauty and the Beast” (the French candle-dude Lumiere), and “Prince of the City,” and I was really sorry to hear about this.
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I confess that since the departure of Michael Moriarty I haven’t had much use for the original “Law & Order,” on which Orbach starred for 12 years, but I loved Orbach’s work in “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (he was Martin Landau’s shady brother), “Beauty and the Beast” (the French candle-dude Lumiere), and “Prince of the City,” and I was really sorry to hear about this.
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