Jerry Orbach

Jerry Orbach

1935-10-20 New York City, New York, USA 73 Credits

Biography

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, P...

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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

as Self

Acting

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 ...

Howard

Howard

2018

as Self / Lumiere (archive footage)

6.9
Acting

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely ...

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2009

as Self (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

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...

Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party

Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party

2005

as Lumiere (voice)

8.0
Acting

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...

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005

as Chuck Baxter (segment "Promises, Promises") (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

2004

as Host (segment "Revivals and Record Breakers") / Billy Flynn (segment "Chicago")

8.0
Acting

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...

Law & Order: Corruption Empire

Law & Order: Corruption Empire

2003

10.0
Acting

A DVD release consisting of the Season 7 episode "Corruption" and the Season 9 episode "Empire", stitched together. In reverse order, with only one se...

Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special

Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special

2003

as Self

6.8
Acting

Conan O'Brien celebrates ten years of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in this one-hour special. Many guest appearances and clip montages show us how f...

Broadway's Lost Treasures

Broadway's Lost Treasures

2003

as Host (segment "Broadway Divas") / Julian Marsh (segment "42nd Street")

6.1
Acting

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...

Try to Remember: The Fantasticks

Try to Remember: The Fantasticks

2003

as Self

6.7
Acting

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...

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

as Self

7.0
Acting

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...

Manna from Heaven

Manna from Heaven

2002

as Waltz Contest Announcer

Acting

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 ...

The Hustler: The Inside Story

The Hustler: The Inside Story

2002

as Self - Actor

Acting

A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved.

Prince of Central Park

Prince of Central Park

2000

as Businessman

4.5
Acting

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.

Chinese Coffee

Chinese Coffee

2000

as Jake Manheim

6.7
Acting

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...

The Acting Class

The Acting Class

2000

as Self

5.5
Acting

A comedy about an exceptionally dysfunctional acting class. Playing unsuspecting college students, Liz and Jill set off to find the most influential a...

Belle's Tales of Friendship

Belle's Tales of Friendship

1999

as Lumiere (voice)

6.9
Acting

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...

Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind

Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind

1999

as Narrator

8.2
Acting

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...

Exiled

Exiled

1998

as Detective Lenny Briscoe

5.5
Acting

NYPD Detective Mike Logan, who was reassigned to Staten Island after punching a corrupt politician, takes on a grisly murder case. When the investigat...

Belle's Magical World

Belle's Magical World

1998

as Lumiere (voice)

6.2
Acting

Belle, the Beast, Lumiere, Cogsworth and the rest of those zany castle residents use their imaginations to embark on three magical, storybook adventur...

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

1997

as Lumiere (voice)

6.2
Acting

Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to change his mind on the matter.

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

1996

as Sa'luk (voice)

6.2
Acting

Legendary secrets are revealed as Aladdin and his friends—Jasmine, Abu, Carpet and, of course, the always entertaining Genie—face all sorts of terrify...

The Cemetery Club

The Cemetery Club

1993

as Jake Rubin (uncredited)

5.3
Acting

The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.

Mastergate

Mastergate

1992

as Clifton Byers

2.0
Acting

A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate ...

Mr. Saturday Night

Mr. Saturday Night

1992

as Phil Gussman

5.7
Acting

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 ...

Universal Soldier

Universal Soldier

1992

as Dr. Christopher Gregor

6.3
Acting

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...

Straight Talk

Straight Talk

1992

as Milo Jacoby

6.0
Acting

Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in ...

Quiet Killer

Quiet Killer

1992

as Dr. Vincent Califano

5.2
Acting

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...

Broadway Bound

Broadway Bound

1992

as Jack Jerome

6.3
Acting

Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage ends.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

1991

as Lumiere (voice)

7.7
Acting

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...

Delirious

Delirious

1991

as Lou Sherwood

5.6
Acting

A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

Delusion

Delusion

1991

as Larry

4.7
Acting

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...

A Gnome Named Gnorm

A Gnome Named Gnorm

1991

as Stan Walton

4.6
Acting

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...

Toy Soldiers

Toy Soldiers

1991

as Albert Trotta (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

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...

Out for Justice

Out for Justice

1991

as Ronny Donziger

6.1
Acting

Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake......

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

1991

as Vic St. John

6.2
Acting

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...

Dead Women in Lingerie

Dead Women in Lingerie

1991

as Mr. Bartoli

3.0
Acting

A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.

California Casanova

California Casanova

1991

as Constantin Rominoffski

Acting

Stagehand at a nightclub falls for one of the performers. He wins her heart after taking lessons on suavity from a gigolo "count".

In Defense of a Married Man

In Defense of a Married Man

1990

as Alan Michelson

4.8
Acting

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. ...

Kojak: None So Blind

Kojak: None So Blind

1990

as Tony Salducci

6.0
Acting

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...

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989

as Jack Rosenthal

7.4
Acting

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an ...

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn

1989

as Boyce

6.5
Acting

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...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

1989

as Blaine Counter

6.5
Acting

A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration

1988

as Self

Acting

The life, career, and music of Irving Berlin are celebrated live on stage with musical performances.

Someone to Watch Over Me

Someone to Watch Over Me

1987

as Lt. Garber

5.9
Acting

Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigne...

Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing

1987

as Dr. Jake Houseman

7.3
Acting

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...

I Love N.Y.

I Love N.Y.

1987

as Leo

5.0
Acting

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...

Love Among Thieves

Love Among Thieves

1987

as Spicer

6.2
Acting

Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ranso...

F/X

F/X

1986

as Nicholas DeFranco

6.6
Acting

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...

The Imagemaker

The Imagemaker

1986

as Byron Caine

5.0
Acting

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...

Brewster's Millions

Brewster's Millions

1985

as Charley Pegler

6.6
Acting

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anyt...

Night of 100 Stars II

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

as Self

8.0
Acting

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...

The Streets

1984

as Sgt. Max Grozzo

Acting

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...

The Magic of Herself the Elf

The Magic of Herself the Elf

1983

as King Thorn (voice)

5.0
Acting

Herself must stop an evil king from upsetting the balance of nature in this animated adventure.

An Invasion of Privacy

An Invasion of Privacy

1983

as Sam Bianchi

1.0
Acting

A woman on a remote island is raped by a local resident and finds her fight for justice impeded by community prejudice.

Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite

1982

as Roy Hubley / Jesse Kiplinger / Sam Nash

Acting

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...

Night of 100 Stars

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

6.7
Acting

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

Prince of the City

Prince of the City

1981

as Gus Levy

7.0
Acting

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as lo...

Underground Aces

Underground Aces

1981

as Herbert Penlittle

4.4
Acting

The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.

Alex and the Doberman Gang

Alex and the Doberman Gang

1980

as Rogers

Acting

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 ...

The Sentinel

The Sentinel

1977

as Michael Dayton

6.1
Acting

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a B...

Fore Play

Fore Play

1975

as Jerry Lorsey

2.5
Acting

A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.

Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife

Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife

1974

as Self

6.0
Acting

Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, da...

A Fan's Notes

A Fan's Notes

1972

as Fred Exley

5.5
Acting

A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him.

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

1971

as Kid Sally

5.0
Acting

A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals.

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun

1967

as Charles Davenport

Acting

TV Movie musical of wild west sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

1965

as Pinkerton

3.4
Acting

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...

Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie

1963

as Bob (Ed Sullivan Show Producer) (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.

Mad Dog Coll

Mad Dog Coll

1961

as Joe Clegg

5.4
Acting

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.

24 Hours in a Woman's Life

24 Hours in a Woman's Life

1961

as Cristof

Acting

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...

Cop Hater

Cop Hater

1958

as Mumzer

5.7
Acting

Members of the 87th Precinct search for a cop killer who has already murdered two of their own.

Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls

1955

as Barbershop Patron (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

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 ...

Marty

Marty

1955

as Ballroom Patron (uncredited)

7.4
Acting

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 ...