Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Detective Lennie Briscoe in the series Law & Order (1992–2004) and as the voice of Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991), as well as for being a noted musical theatre star; his prominent roles included originating the character of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical play in history, as Chuck Baxter in the original production of Promises, Promises (for which he won a Tony Award), Julian Marsh in 42nd Street, and Billy Flynn in the original production of Chicago.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 21.679 |
Birthday | 1935-10-20 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Джерри Орбак, |
1987
Dirty Dancing
7.341/5948
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find hersel...
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Dirty Dancing
1991
Beauty and the Beast
7.734/9678
Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the h...
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Beauty and the Beast
1961
Mad Dog Coll
5.4/11
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
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Mad Dog Coll
1998
Belle's Magical World
6.2/443
Belle, the Beast, Lumiere, Cogsworth and the rest of those zany castle residents use their imaginations to embark on three magical, storybook adventur...
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Belle's Magical World
1985
Brewster's Millions
6.6/563
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days with...
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Brewster's Millions
1990
A Gnome Named Gnorm
4.5/36
A young Los Angeles police officer and a mysterious gnome become unlikely partners as they track a killer. When a sting operation goes awry, officer C...
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A Gnome Named Gnorm
1996
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
6.3/1800
Legendary secrets are revealed as Aladdin and his friends—Jasmine, Abu, Carpet and, of course, the always entertaining Genie—face all sorts of terrify...
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Aladdin and the King of Thieves
1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
7.463/837
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
1987
Someone to Watch Over Me
5.9/172
Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigne...
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Someone to Watch Over Me
2004
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
8/3
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on ope...
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
1981
Prince of the City
7/148
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as lo...
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Prince of the City
1992
Universal Soldier
6.3/1633
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldi...
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Universal Soldier
1989
Last Exit to Brooklyn
6.423/97
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute...
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
1997
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
6.2/979
Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to change his mind on the matter.
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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1991
Delusion
4.9/15
In this fast-paced, noirish road movie, a computer expert embezzles half a million dollars and races off to Reno to start anew. Unfortunately, en rout...
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Delusion
1991
Out for Justice
6.084/416
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake......
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Out for Justice
1992
Straight Talk
5.971/69
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in...
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Straight Talk
1999
Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind
8.2/4
Former FBI agent John Douglas, the inventor of criminal profiling, leads a journey into the minds of the 20th Century's most notorious killers, includ...
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Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind
1958
Cop Hater
5.7/16
Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.
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Cop Hater
1977
The Sentinel
6.092/189
When a beautiful model, Alison Parker, rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits h...
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The Sentinel
2000
Chinese Coffee
6.649/58
When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, o...
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Chinese Coffee
1992
Mr. Saturday Night
5.758/53
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes...
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Mr. Saturday Night
1971
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
4.9/20
A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/6
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
1983
The Magic of Herself the Elf
5/1
Herself must stop an evil king from upsetting the balance of nature in this animated adventure.
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The Magic of Herself the Elf
2003
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
6.7/3
On the eve of the final Off-Broadway performance of the long-running musical "The Fantasticks," filmmaker Eli Kabillio takes a wistful look back at th...
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Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
1991
Dead Women in Lingerie
5/2
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
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Dead Women in Lingerie
1992
Quiet Killer
5.2/2
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still o...
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Quiet Killer
1972
A Fan's Notes
5.5/4
A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him.
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A Fan's Notes
2000
Prince of Central Park
4.5/12
A young boy sets out to find his mother. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a group of people even needier than himself.
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Prince of Central Park
1989
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
6.9/7
A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
1986
The Imagemaker
5/1
Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set on using his experience to make a film about manip...
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The Imagemaker
1991
Toy Soldiers
6.445/316
After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. The...
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Toy Soldiers
1987
I Love N.Y.
5/3
Photographer Mario Cotone is hired to cover a big N.Y. actor. When his pretty daughter Nicole Yeats (N.Y.) and Mario fall in love, this angers her fat...
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I Love N.Y.
1986
F/X
6.5/408
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross hi...
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F/X
2003
Broadway's Lost Treasures
5.6/4
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, wer...
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Broadway's Lost Treasures
1991
California Casanova
0/0
Stagehand at a nightclub falls for one of the performers. He wins her heart after taking lessons on suavity from a gigolo "count".
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California Casanova
1999
Belle's Tales of Friendship
7/17
Two different stories: in the first one a group of children walk into the store eager to hear Belle's stories, as she is noted to be a great storytell...
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Belle's Tales of Friendship
1955
Marty
7.443/361
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family...
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Marty
1991
Delirious
5.6/117
A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.
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Delirious
1987
Love Among Thieves
5.5/5
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ranso...
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Love Among Thieves
1990
Kojak: None So Blind
6/1
After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Police Inspector Theo Kojak must both protect her from...
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Kojak: None So Blind
1992
Broadway Bound
7/2
Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage ends.
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Broadway Bound
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
7.2/4
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
1991
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
7.3/6
Perry is at TV station "KGGY" to be interviewed but thanks to the interference of main anchor-person Brett Huston the interview is pulled. Mostly ever...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter
1992
Mastergate
2/1
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate...
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Mastergate
1990
In Defense of a Married Man
5/11
When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him....
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In Defense of a Married Man
1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
2.5/6
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon...
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1982
Plaza Suite
0/0
HBO filmed version of the Neil Simon play (filmed in front of a live audience) has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza...
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Plaza Suite
1983
An Invasion of Privacy
1/1
A woman on a remote island is raped by a local resident and finds her fight for justice impeded by community prejudice.
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An Invasion of Privacy
1961
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
0/0
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised t...
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24 Hours in a Woman's Life
1963
Bye Bye Birdie
5.9/94
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
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Bye Bye Birdie
2000
The Acting Class
10/1
A comedy about an exceptionally dysfunctional acting class. Playing unsuspecting college students, Liz and Jill set off to find the most influential a...
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The Acting Class
2020
Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along
10/1
Lend Us Your Voice
Don’t miss this enchanting twist on a timeless tale narrated by none other than Mrs. Potts herself—Angela Lansbury. As Belle and t...
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Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along
1974
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
0/0
Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, da...
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Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6/1
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
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Night of 100 Stars
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
0/0
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
1993
The Cemetery Club
5.4/8
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
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The Cemetery Club
2002
The Hustler: The Inside Story
0/0
A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved.
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The Hustler: The Inside Story
1975
Fore Play
3/3
A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.
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Fore Play
2018
Howard
6.8/42
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely...
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Howard
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.2/102
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
1981
Underground Aces
5.6/4
The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.
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Underground Aces
2005
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
8/3
It's an enchanted royal tea party, and your little princess is the guest of honor! There, she can sing along with all her favorite Disney Princesses a...
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Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2002
Manna from Heaven
0/0
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was...
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Manna from Heaven
1955
Guys and Dolls
6.6/219
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky...
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Guys and Dolls
2004
Law & Order: The First 3 Years
0/0
This DVD bonus feature describes Law & Order's first three seasons, with candid interviews with seven of its early castmembers.
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Law & Order: The First 3 Years
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/2
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
1967
Annie Get Your Gun
0/0
TV Movie musical of wild west sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
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Annie Get Your Gun
1980
Alex and the Doberman Gang
0/0
A more than slightly incompetent private eye inherits five doberman pinschers. The dogs at first create havoc with Alex's home and personal life, but...
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Alex and the Doberman Gang
1984
The Streets
0/0
Undercover cops Wreade & Grozzo (Beck & Orbach) are searching for the identity of a gang leader who is selling handguns to people for their self prote...
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The Streets
1988
Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
0/0
The life, career, and music of Irving Berlin are celebrated live on stage with musical performances.
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Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
2010
Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along
0/0
Sing along to all the songs in Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Beauty and the Beast." The Sing-Along version of the film features on-screen lyrics as...
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Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along
1998
Exiled
5.2/12
NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, takes on a grisly murder case. When the investigat...
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