Your Fave Is Catholic: Jerry OrbachKnown for: Tony Award winning actor who dominated as a star in th

Your Fave Is Catholic: Jerry OrbachKnown for: Tony Award winning actor who dominated as a star in theater, television, & film. He began his career as a stage actor on Broadway, & was a major Broadway star from the 1960s to the 1980s. While he was working in theater, he would occasionally find work in film & television roles, but by the 1980s he made film & television his full-time career, & this was where he received his most notable claims to fame. In the world of theater, some of his most notable plays he appeared in include The ThreePenny Opera, The Fantasticks, Carnival!, The Cradle Will Rock, Guys & Dolls, Carousel, Annie Get Your Gun, Promises, Promises, 6 Rms Riv Vu, Chicago, & 42nd Street. His film credits include Bye Bye Birdie, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, Fore Play, The Sentinel, Prince of the City, Brewster’s Millions, Dirty Dancing, Someone To Watch Over Me, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Out For Justice, Beauty & the Beast (he voiced Lumiere the candelabra, FYI), Mr. Saturday Night, Prince of Central Park, Manna from Heaven, & Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There. His work for television includes Our Family Honor, Murder, She Wrote, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, The Law & Harry McGraw, Empty Nest, Law & Order (probably his most well known role, as Detective Lennie Briscoe), Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Disney’s House of Mouse, & several guest appearances throughout the years on other shows that include Kojak, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Tales from the Darkside, Simon & Simon, The Golden Girls, Who’s the Boss?, & many more.Evidence of Faith: According to a Washington Post interview/article about Jerry & his Law & Order character Detective Lennie Briscoe, Jerry himself explains that his mother of Polish & Lithuanian descent raised him in the Catholic faith (his father was Jewish), & that this helped him to connect with his character in a special way. An old Boston.com article also confirms this, as does John Anthony Gilvey’s biography on Jerry titled Jerry Orbach, Prince of the City: His Way from the Fantasticks to Law & Order. -- source link

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