Actor Jerry Orbach died Tuesday at age 69 of prostate cancer. Orbach spent years on the New York stage as a song man in hit musicals, but he was perhaps best known for his role as acerbic New York ...

The many families of Jerry Orbach gathered Thursday at the Richard Rodgers Theater to salute his life and career, celebrating his achievements as an actor on the very stage that brought him one of his ...

Jerry Orbach left "Law & Order" after 12 years. He will appear in a reduced role in the next "Law & Order" spin-off. Early years: Jerome Bernard Orbach was born Oct. 20, 1935, in New York City. His ...

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NEW YORK — Actor Jerry Orbach, who played a sardonic, seen-it-all cop on TV's "Law & Order" and scored on Broadway as a song-and-dance man, has died of prostate cancer at 69, a representative of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Jerry Orbach had a gift for charming audiences his entire career -- first as a song-and-dance man who starred in musicals on and off Broadway, then for 12 years as a sharp-tongued cop ...