Jerry Orbach was a major Broadway performer, originating roles in The Fantasticks, Chicago and 42nd Street, and won a Tony before most audiences knew his face.
Dirty Dancing gives him the father, and Beauty and the Beast gives him Lumière, singing Be Our Guest with a French accent he built from Maurice Chevalier.
Law and Order gave him Lennie Briscoe across twelve years, and the deadpan one-liners over the body became a format signature. He died in 2004.
Cynthia RhodesDirty Dancing (1987) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film about class and an illegal abortion, marketed as a summer romance. Made for five million dollars by people nobody expected anything from, and still running forty…
Jerry OrbachJohn Flynn's 1991 Brooklyn cop thriller. Among the stronger Steven Seagal theatrical efforts.
Angela LansburyBeauty and the Beast is one of the great Disney animated films and the first animated feature ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed.
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