Orbach, Jerry

Orbach, Jerry
2005
Jerome Bernard Orbach 
      American actor and singer (b. Oct. 20, 1935, Bronx, N.Y.—d. Dec. 28, 2004, New York, N.Y.), made his mark in the theatre world as a Broadway song-and-dance manoriginating such roles as El Gallo in the Off-Broadway The Fantasticks (1960), Paul Berthalet in Carnival (1961, his Broadway debut), Chuck Baxter in Promises, Promises (1968; Tony Award, 1969), Billy Flynn in Chicago (1975), and Julian Marsh in 42nd Street (1980)—but later became better known to the American television-viewing public as Detective Lennie Briscoe in 12 seasons of Law & Order and to movie audiences as the father in Dirty Dancing (1987). At the time of his death, Orbach was filming episodes of a new spin-off series, Law & Order: Trial by Jury.

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