Posted
12/29/2004 03:47:00 PM
by Douglas
Rest in peace, Lenny. Jerry Orbach, who patrolled NBC's Law & Order beat for the last 12 seasons as sardonic Detective Lennie Briscoe, has died of prostate cancer, his publicist said Wednesday. He was 69.
Orbach died Tuesday night in Manhattan. Earlier this month, Orbach's manager, Robert Malcolm, confirmed that the veteran actor had been diagnosed with the disease and had been undergoing treatment since last spring, but said that Orbach's prognosis was good.
Cancer? Yeah right. It was murder, and it's going to take a detective like Briscoe to find the missing piece of evidence that pulls it all together. Hopefully before the second commercial.