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Jerry Orbach facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Jerry Orbach | |
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| Born | Jerome Bernard Orbach (1935-10-20)October 20, 1935 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | December 28, 2004(2004-12-28) (aged 69) New York City, U.S. |
| Resting place | Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan |
| Occupation | Actor, singer |
| Years active | 1955–2004 |
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| Children | 2, including Chris Orbach |
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 huvudgata musical and global celebrity on television" and a "versatile scen and film actor".
Orbach's professional career began on the New York stage, both on and off-Broadway, where he created roles such as El Gallo in the original off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks (1960) and beca
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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 Susanna (nee Klauba). The family moved frequently. He spent part of his childhood in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania and eventually settled in Waukegan, Illinois, where he went to high school.
The constant moving made him the new kid on the block and forced him to become "a chameleon" to blend in his new settings. He studied drama at the University of Illinois and at Northwestern University. He then went to study acting in New York and got constant work in musicals. He slowly pushed to get acting roles in television and films after being overlooked due to his musical roots.
Orbach died at age 69 on December 28, 2004, after a decade-long battle with prostate cancer. His wid
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Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor best known for his starring role as wisecracking New York Police Department Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law & Order television series, and for his musical theater roles.
Biography[]
Orbach was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, to Emily Olexy (a Polish American Roman Catholic) and Leon Orbach, a German Jew of Sephardic descent. He was raised as a Roman Catholic.
While he was still a child, his family moved to Mount Vernon, New York; Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Waukegan, Illinois. He studied drama at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, then went to New York, where he studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.
Orbach was an accomplished Broadway and off-Broadway actor. His first major role was that of El Gallo in the original cast of the decades-running hit The Fantasticks. He also starred in Carnival