He was well known for his starring role as Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law & Order television series and as the voice of Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

In 1992, Orbach joined the main cast of Law & Order as world-weary, wisecracking, streetwise NYPD police detective Lennie Briscoe.

Younger son Chris Orbach, who is an actor and singer, played Lennie Briscoe's nephew Ken Briscoe on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

He was the voice of the candelabrum " Lumiere " in the 1991 Disney animated film, Beauty and the Beast, before taking on his best known role, detective Lennie Briscoe on the TV crime drama Law & Order, which he played from 1992 until his death in 2004.

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* Jerry Orbach-Law & Order as Lennie Briscoe ( posthumous )

Leonard W. " Lennie " Briscoe is a fictional character on NBC's long-running police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order.

Lennie Briscoe is introduced in the 1992 episode " Point of View " as the new senior detective in the New York City Police Department's 27th Detective Squad in the 27th Police Precinct's Station House.

Anita Van Buren was able to come to the tail end of Deborah's funeral and meet with Curtis where Curtis revealed that he had spoken with Lennie Briscoe just before his death and that Lennie was his old wisecracking self right up to the end.

* Lennie Briscoe was voted the 30th greatest television show character of all time by Bravo TV.

* Lennie Briscoe was Law & Orders third greatest detective on the Hallmark Channel poll in 2010, beaten only by Special Victims Unit Detective Olivia Benson, who came in second, and Criminal Intent Detective Robert Goren, who won the poll.

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* Jerry Orbach as Senior Detective Lennie Briscoe

During the first half, the player assumes the part of Junior Detective, working as the partner of Lennie Briscoe, who is tasked with gathering enough evidence to make an arrest.

In the following episodes, his partner is Lennie Briscoe.

At the end of the sixth season, while Wheeler might be about to temporarily go on assignment ( due to Julianne Nicholson's first pregnancy ), Logan begins dating his neighbor Holly Lauren ( Kelli Williams ) and they begin telling stories about their childhoods and understand the meaning of the word " happiness ", and Logan even tells her about his deceased former partner, Lennie Briscoe.

Curtis is introduced as a homicide detective in Manhattan's 27th Detective Squad, the junior partner of Lennie Briscoe.

While working with Lennie Briscoe ( played by Jerry Orbach ) in the season four episode of Homicide, " For God and Country ", a crossover with Law and Order, Munch loses badly to Briscoe in a pool game and learns Briscoe had briefly dated, and had sex with, Gwen.

Chris Ravell, Fred Thompson as Arthur Branch, and Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe.

At first, Ross has the upper hand, getting a handgun and other evidence dismissed due to a suppression ruling against detectives Lennie Briscoe ( Jerry Orbach ) and Ed Green ( Jesse L. Martin ), who use privileged medical information from a school psychiatrist to identify the suspect following an anonymous e-mail threatening to " come back and finish the job ".

Throughout her run on the show, she oversaw the work of detectives such as Lennie Briscoe, Mike Logan, Rey Curtis, Ed Green, Joe Fontana, Nick Falco, Nina Cassady, Cyrus Lupo, and Kevin Bernard.

Parkinson had spent less than any other manager on purchasing players since Lennie Lawrence in the 1980s and was able to maintain a top six status despite only having the opportunity to bring in lower level players on loan.

The original music score was composed by Eastwood and Lennie Niehaus.

Lennie Weinrib provided his voice for one season in 1979 and from 1980 on, it was performed by Don Messick ( who voiced Scooby ).

Ultimately, Lennie Weinrib was chosen, and after the first season, Messick became the final voice for the rest of the series ' run.

Captain Crook was voiced by Lennie Weinrib.

Cancer was diagnosed and Reid decided to sell Treasure Isle to Sonia Pottinger, widow of his friend Lenford " Lennie the King " Pottinger, and already owned High Note Records, which was one of the largest record labels on the Island.

Ronnie Barker had suggested the part of Lennie Godber for Paul Henry, but the decision was taken to cast Richard Beckinsale by the production team.

* In The Flintstone Kids, young Fred was voiced by both Lennie Weinrib and Scott Menville at different points.

Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, who was Music Director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947 in Paris.

Freedman was appointed manager on a full-time basis on 11 January 2011, with former Charlton boss Lennie Lawrence as his assistant.

* For years car number 54 was NASCAR driver Lennie Pond.

When 3AK became a ' daylight ' station, its very first breakfast team was Lennie Holmes and Shin Berinson.

They were run out of town after Lennie was accused of attempted rape when he touched and held onto a young woman's pretty red dress ( prompted by his love of stroking soft things ).

Royal Roy: A Prince of a Boy was a short-lived bimonthly comic book title from the Marvel Comics younger readers ' imprint Star Comics, created by Lennie Herman and Warren Kremer.

( Longtime Harvey creator Lennie Herman had created Royal Roy for Star Comics ; Herman died in 1983 before the first issue of Royal Roy was published.

He was one of a number of artists including Mark Divo, the Mikry Drei, Lennie Lee and Dan Jones to have squatted the Cabaret Voltaire ( Zürich ) in the February 2002 in an attempt to revive the Dada movement.

Konitz, like other students of pianist and theoretician Lennie Tristano, was noted for improvising long, melodic lines with the rhythmic interest coming from odd accents, or odd note groupings suggestive of the imposition of one time signature over another.

His compositions include " Trumbology " ( 1927 ), " Plantation Moods " with David Rose, " Red Hot ", " Wringin ' an ' Twistin '" with Fats Waller, " Barbed Wire Blues ", " Troubled ", " I Like That ", " Bass Drum Dan ", " Break it Down ", " I'm Glad ", " Choo Choo ", " Sun Spots ", " Eclipse ", " Meteor ", " Krazy Kat ", " G Blues ", " Tailspin " with Jimmy Dorsey, " Crying All Day ", " Loved One ", " Apple Blossoms " with Joe Venuti, Lennie Hayton, and Eddie Lang, " Three Blind Mice " with Chauncey Morehouse, " The Mayor of Alabam '", " Flight of a Haybag ", " Cinderella's Wedding Day ", " Runnin ' Ragged ", and " For No Reason at All in C " with Bix Beiderbecke in 1927, which was released as a single on Okeh, Columbia, and Parlophone.

Richard Arthur Beckinsale ( 6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979 ) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Lennie Godber in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore in the British sitcom Rising Damp.

On ITV, he was playing naive medical student Alan Moore in Rising Damp ( voted ITV's best-ever sitcom in the Britain's Best Sitcom survey of 2004 ) while also starring in BBC's Porridge as Lennie Godber alongside Ronnie Barker.

Leonard Arthur " Lennie " Godber was a character in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge.