I enjoyed his acting. He'll sure be missed.
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Actor Jerry Orbach has passed away...
by TresHappy 19 Replies latest social entertainment
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unique1
Ditto.
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franklin J
He was a good character actor and an excellent singer.....his talents will be missed....
Does anyone know how he died? I am sure i will hear it in the media.....
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franklin J
I just checked the link provided (duh!) and he died of prostate cancer!
This is so unusual to die from as it is a very slow moving cancer and is usually dealt with in some way; I have NEVER heard of it being terminal.
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jwbot
*sigh* I really liked him, Law and Order just is not the same without him.
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kaykay_mp
damn. that sucks.
he was such a badass (and a smartass) in Law & Order--I loved it! That is what made me so attracted to him.
it's been said before, but he will certainly be missed.
laters
kaykay_mp
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TresHappy
Another movie that Jerry Orbach did, playing the bad guy Nicholas DeFranco
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Scully
franklin:
This is so unusual to die from as it is a very slow moving cancer and is usually dealt with in some way; I have NEVER heard of it being terminal.
Actually, if early symptoms are ignored and it is discovered after the cancer has grown beyond the prostate capsule, it's bad. Very bad. It killed Frank Zappa too.
You guys out there should be having your prostates checked every year after your 50th birthday!!
Love, Scully
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TresHappy
Well known people who have succumbed to prostate cancer -
Robert Benjamin Ablin (-1979)
Don Ameche (actor, 85)
Baudouin (king of Belgium)
Bill Bixby (actor, 59)
S. Edward Cala (co-founder Cala Foods, 79)
William Casey (former CIA director)
James Coleman (sociologist, 68)
Sylvio Conte (former US representative)
Thomas Crowley (Crowley Maritime Corp., 79)
Orval Faubus (former Arkansas governor, 83)
Charles de Gaulle (French statesman)
Roswell Gilpatric (former deputy secretary of defense, 80)
Paulo Gracindo (actor, 84)
Ernest Hahn (real estate developer)
James Herriott (author, 78)
Felix Houphouet-Boigny (president Ivory Coast, 88)
Howard Hunter (president Mormon Church, 87)
Irving Kahn (cable television pioneer, 76)
Khomeini (Iranian leader, 89)
Timothy Leary (ca. 1921-1996, LSD-prophet)
Frank Lilly (geneticist, 65)
Curtis Lowe (jazz saxophonist, 73)
Spark Matsunaga (former US senator, 73)
Bob Maynard (publisher - The Oakland Tribune, 56)
Tom McDermott (TV and movie actor, 83)
Bob McNett (Drifting Cowboys Band, 69)
Francois Mitterrand (French statesman, 79)
Mobutu Sese Seko (Dictator in Zaire, 66)
John von Neumann (1903-1957, mathematician)
Gary Ormsby (race car driver, 47)
Frank Aram Oski (physician, ca. 1932-1996)
Turgut Ozal (president of Turkey, 66)
Joseph Papp (theatrical producer)
Linus Pauling (1901-1994, chemist)
Harvey Penick (golf instructor, 90)
Frank Perry (motion picture producer, 65)
Bobby Riggs (tennis player, 77)
Fred Ross (union organizer, 82)
Steve Ross (CEO Time-Warner, 65)
Hobart Rowan (columnist - The Washington Post, 76)
Cornelius Ryan (author)
Dick Sargent (actor, 64)
Telly Savalas (actor, 70)
George Sheehan (running guru, physician and author, 74)
Otis Smith (Michigan supreme court judge, 72)
John Tower (former US senator)
Jesse Unruh (former California treasurer)
William Walsh (founder of project HOPE, ca. 1920-1996)
Del Webb (sportsman and real estate developer)
Thomas Witter (Dean-Witter-Reynolds, 63)
Joseph Wortis (psychiatrist, 80)
Derek York (film editor, 66)
Frank Zappa (rock star, 52) -
El Kabong
Damn shame is right. His character Lenny Briscoe was one of the best TV cops ever!!
His one liners on the show were the best.
I never had the chance to see him live on Broadway, but I did catch a PBS Special of 42nd Street with Jerry in the cast. What a fine actor he was.
RIP Jerry.