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Jerry Orbach

Jerry Orbach

Highest Rated: 93% Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Lowest Rated: 13% Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Birthday: Oct 20, 1935

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

This tall, sleepy-eyed character actor and leading man from the Broadway musical stage who, whether sinister or sympathetic, often was cast in roles that connoted a classic "New Yorkness," eventually finding widespread recognition on television as a cynical police detective on the long-running crime series "Law & Order."

Highest rated movies

92% Crimes and Misdemeanors
92% Prince of the City
89% F/X 72% Dirty Dancing
67% Last Exit to Brooklyn
65% Someone to Watch Over Me
59% Mr. Saturday Night
46% Straight Talk

Photos

THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, (middle left) Leigh Taylor-Young, Robert De Niro, (front) Jerry Orbach, Lionel Stander, 1971 THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, Jerry Orbach, 1971 THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, Jerry Orbach, Herve Villechaize, Lionel Stander, Robert De Niro, Carmine Caridi, Joe Santos, 1971 THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, Jerry Orbach (third left), Jo Van Fleet (seated), Joe Santos, Irving Selbst, 1971 PRINCE OF THE CITY, Treat Williams, lobby card poster art, 1981. (c)Orion Pictures. DIRTY DANCING, Jerry Orbach, Jennifer Grey, 1987, (c)Vestron Pictures THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, Joe Santos, Jerry Orbach, Irving Selbst, 1971 PRINCE OF THE CITY, Jerry Orbach (right), 1981, (c) Warner Brothers OUT FOR JUSTICE, Jerry Orbach, 1991, (c)Warner Bros. DELIRIOUS, Jerry Orbach, John Candy, Renee Taylor, 1991, (c)MGM CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Martin Landau, Jerry Orbach, 1989 PRINCE OF THE CITY, Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, 1981 F/X, Bryan Brown, Jerry Orbach, 1986, (c) Orion OUT FOR JUSTICE, Steven Seagal, Jerry Orbach, 1991, (c)Warner Bros. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, Tom Berenger, Jerry Orbach, John Rubinstein, Mimi Rogers, 1987, (c) Columbia SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, from left: Jerry Orbach, tom Berenger, 1987, © Columbia F/X, Jerry Orbach, Bryan Brown, 1986" LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, Jerry Orbach, 1989, (c)Cinecom Pictures THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, Jerry Orbach, 1971 THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, (middle left) Leigh Taylor-Young, Robert De Niro, (front) Herve Villechaize, Jo Van Fleet, Jerry Orbach, Lionel Stander, 1971
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 74% Chinese Coffee Jake Manheim (Character) - 2000
20% 36% Prince of Central Park Businessman (Character) $5.8K 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Belle's Tales of Friendship Unknown (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 54% Exiled: A Law & Order Movie Detective Lennie Briscoe (Character) - 1998
17% 71% Belle's Magical World Lumiere (Voice) - 1997
13% 55% Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas Lumiere (Voice) - 1997
33% 50% Aladdin and the King of Thieves Sa'luk (Voice) - 1996
No Score Yet 34% A Gnome Named Gnorm Stan Walton (Character) - 1992
59% 38% Mr. Saturday Night Phil Gussman (Character) $12.6M 1992
34% 46% Universal Soldier Dr. Christopher Gregor (Character) $35.4M 1992
46% 58% Straight Talk Milo Jacoby (Character) $20.1M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Quiet Killer Dr. Vincent Califano (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Broadway Bound Jack Jerome (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet California Casanova Constantin Rominoffski (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 33% Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter Vic St. John (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 0% Dead Women in Lingerie Bartoli (Character) - 1991
41% 66% Toy Soldiers Albert Trotta (Character) $13.4M 1991
93% 92% Beauty and the Beast Lumiere (Voice) $219.0M 1991
23% 53% Out for Justice Capt. Ronnie Donziger (Character) $36.8M 1991
29% 39% Delirious Lou Sherwood (Character) $4.7M 1991
No Score Yet 59% Delusion Larry (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak: None So Blind Tony Salducci (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Defense of a Married Man Alan Michelson (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 50% Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder Blaine Counter (Character) - 1989
67% 74% Last Exit to Brooklyn Boyce (Character) $1.2M 1989
92% 91% Crimes and Misdemeanors Jack Rosenthal (Character) $17.6M 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Love N.Y. Leo (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 17% Love Among Thieves Spicer (Character) - 1987
65% 41% Someone to Watch Over Me Lt. Garber (Character) $8.9M 1987
72% 90% Dirty Dancing Jake Houseman (Character) $486.3K 1987
No Score Yet 75% Out on a Limb Mort Viner (Character) - 1987
89% 54% F/X Nicholas DeFranco (Character) $19.9M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Imagemaker Byron Caine (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 60% Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers Unknown (Character) - 1986
38% 56% Brewster's Millions Charley Pegler (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet An Invasion of Privacy Sam Bianchi (Character) - 1983
92% 82% Prince of the City Gus Levy (Character) - 1981
45% 44% The Sentinel Michael Dayton (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Foreplay Jerry Lorsey (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Fan's Notes Fred (Character) - 1972
20% 26% The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Kid Sally (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 30% Mad Dog Coll Joe (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet 24 Hours of a Woman's Life Cristof (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet 24 Hours in a Woman's Life Unknown (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 38% Cop Hater Mumzer (Character) - 1958

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Law & Order: Trial by Jury Unknown (Character) 2005
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Det. Lennie Briscoe (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star) 		1991-2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Encounters With the Unexplained Host 2000-2002
No Score Yet 71% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
78% 82% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Lennie Briscoe (Guest Star) 1999
91% 90% Homicide: Life on the Street Unknown (Guest Star) 1996-1997
95% 94% Frasier Mitch (Guest Voice) 1996
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Harry McGraw (Guest Star) 1985-1987 1989 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who's the Boss? Unknown (Guest Star) 1990
No Score Yet 93% The Golden Girls Glen O'Brien 2 (Guest Star) 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hunter Sal Scarlatti (Guest Star) 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Super Password Guest 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Simon & Simon Harrison/Malcolm Shanley III (Guest Star) 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Law & Harry McGraw Harry McGraw (Character) 1987-1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hitchhiker Unknown (Character) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Brubaker (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1969 1972-1973