Jerry Orbach

Jerry Orbach

Birthday: 1935-10-20

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Detective Lennie Briscoe in the series Law & Order (1992–2004) and as the voice of Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991), as well as for being a noted musical theatre star; his prominent roles included originating the character of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical play in history, as Chuck Baxter in the original production of Promises, Promises (for which he won a Tony Award), Julian Marsh in 42nd Street, and Billy Flynn in the original production of Chicago. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Orbach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who...

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Mad Dog Coll
Mad Dog Coll

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York....

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Belle's Magical World
Belle's Magical World

Belle, the Beast, Lumiere, Cogsworth and the rest of those zany castle residents use their imaginati...

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Brewster's Millions
Brewster's Millions

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can succ...

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A Gnome Named Gnorm
A Gnome Named Gnorm

A young Los Angeles police officer and a mysterious gnome become unlikely partners as they track a k...

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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...

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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Broadway's Lost Treasures II

The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to ...

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Someone to Watch Over Me
Someone to Watch Over Me

Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. De...

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The Hustler: The Inside Story
The Hustler: The Inside Story

A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved....

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Prince of the City
Prince of the City

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help el...

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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a uni...

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Universal Soldier
Universal Soldier

An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the mili...

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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to c...

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Delusion
Delusion

A computer expert embezzles half a million dollars and races off to Reno to start anew. Unfortunatel...

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Out for Justice
Out for Justice

Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood...

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Straight Talk
Straight Talk

Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Acc...

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Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind
Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind

Former FBI agent John Douglas, the inventor of criminal profiling, leads a journey into the minds of...

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Cop Hater
Cop Hater

Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own....

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The Sentinel
The Sentinel

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual expl...

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Chinese Coffee
Chinese Coffee

When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaur...

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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein ar...

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Mr. Saturday Night
Mr. Saturday Night

Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing ...

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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals....

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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...

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The Magic of Herself the Elf
The Magic of Herself the Elf

Herself must stop an evil king from upsetting the balance of nature in this animated adventure....

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Fore Play
Fore Play

A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents....

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Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks

On the eve of the final Off-Broadway performance of the long-running musical "The Fantasticks," film...

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Dead Women in Lingerie
Dead Women in Lingerie

A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victim...

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Quiet Killer
Quiet Killer

On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that ...

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Prince of Central Park
Prince of Central Park

A young boy sets out to find his mother. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a grou...

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A Fan's Notes
A Fan's Notes

A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him....

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California Casanova
California Casanova

Stagehand at a nightclub falls for one of the performers. He wins her heart after taking lessons on ...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case...

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The Imagemaker
The Imagemaker

Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set ...

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Waking Sleeping Beauty
Waking Sleeping Beauty

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists ...

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Howard
Howard

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the ...

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F/X
F/X

A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a we...

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Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration

The life, career, and music of Irving Berlin are celebrated live on stage with musical performances....

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Broadway's Lost Treasures
Broadway's Lost Treasures

The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which...

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Underground Aces
Underground Aces

The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants....

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Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party

It's an enchanted royal tea party, and your little princess is the guest of honor! There, she can si...

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Manna from Heaven
Manna from Heaven

Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial wi...

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Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for e...

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Belle's Tales of Friendship
Belle's Tales of Friendship

Two different stories: in the first one a group of children walk into the store eager to hear Belle'...

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Marty
Marty

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but sociall...

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Exiled
Exiled

NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, ...

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Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers

After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms...

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Night of 100 Stars II
Night of 100 Stars II

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...

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The Streets
The Streets

Undercover cops Wreade & Grozzo (Beck & Orbach) are searching for the identity of a gang leader who ...

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Alex and the Doberman Gang
Alex and the Doberman Gang

A more than slightly incompetent private eye inherits five doberman pinschers. The dogs at first cre...

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Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun

TV Movie musical of wild west sharpshooter Annie Oakley....

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Delirious
Delirious

A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show....

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Love Among Thieves
Love Among Thieves

Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San...

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Kojak: None So Blind
Kojak: None So Blind

After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Poli...

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Broadway Bound
Broadway Bound

Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

Perry is at TV station "KGGY" to be interviewed but thanks to the interference of main anchor-person...

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I Love N.Y.
I Love N.Y.

Photographer Mario Cotone is hired to cover a big N.Y. actor. When his pretty daughter Nicole Yeats ...

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Mastergate
Mastergate

A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealin...

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In Defense of a Married Man
In Defense of a Married Man

When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he w...

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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by...

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Plaza Suite
Plaza Suite

HBO filmed version of the Neil Simon play (filmed in front of a live audience) has three separate ac...

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An Invasion of Privacy
An Invasion of Privacy

A woman on a remote island is raped by a local resident and finds her fight for justice impeded by c...

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24 Hours in a Woman's Life
24 Hours in a Woman's Life

Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for...

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Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie

A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted....

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The Acting Class
The Acting Class

A comedy about an exceptionally dysfunctional acting class. Playing unsuspecting college students, L...

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Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife

Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshett...

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Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...

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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...

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The Cemetery Club
The Cemetery Club

The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk ab...

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special

Conan O'Brien celebrates ten years of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in this one-hour special. Many...

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Law & Order: Corruption Empire
Law & Order: Corruption Empire

A DVD release consisting of the Season 7 episode "Corruption" and the Season 9 episode "Empire", sti...

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Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Aladdin and the King of Thieves

Legendary secrets are revealed as Aladdin and his friends—Jasmine, Abu, Carpet and, of course, the a...

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Law and Order: Justice
Law and Order: Justice

This special explores the duality of justice in New York City, dividing its focus between police inv...

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Mickey's Philharmagic
Mickey's Philharmagic

Disney magic meets Disney music in this spectacular 12-minute, 3D fantasy adventure starring Donald ...

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