Tough cop with a soft shoe: Jerry Orbach dead at 69
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Orbach, 69, died Tuesday of prostate cancer. He was known to millions of television fans as been-there/done-that detective Lennie Briscoe on NBC&#39;s popular ``Law &amp; Order&#39;&#39; series.
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US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the first two Jaws movies, dies at the age of 75.
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Richard Avedon, one of the most  influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th  century, died on Friday at age 81 in Texas, where he had been  photographing an essay on democracy for the New Yorker  magazine, a magazine spokeswoman said.
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Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," died Sunday. He was 75.
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Jerry Orbach, star of "Law & Order," has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but is expected to be fine. The actor starred on the hit NBC crime drama for 12 successful seasons, but recently left the show to star in a spin-off titled "Law & Orde...
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An autopsy was performed Monday on comic Richard Jeni but the cause of his death won't be known for several weeks, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Jeni died Saturday from a gunshot wound. He was 49.
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Jerry Orbach, the Tony Award-winning star of Promises, Promises and other musicals, has died at the age of 69, according to a radio report citing his manager, Robert Malcolm.
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Jerry Orbach, a long running star on the television series âLaw and Order,â died from prostate cancer on Wednesday, November 30.
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Al Shugart, 76, who pioneered the multibillion-dollar computer hard drive industry and was one of the more colorful characters of Silicon Valley, died Dec. 12 at California's Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula of complications from heart surgery he had six weeks earlier.
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Ken Caminiti was never short of fearless on a baseball field. He made incredible stops at third base, swatted home runs from both sides of the plate and played through pain that would wither most men. Friends and former teammates shocked by Caminiti's death Sunday in New York at age 41 remembered not only the great plays, but many off-field struggles.
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Johnny Grant, Hollywood's honorary mayor, was found dead Wednesday night, Los Angeles police said. Grant, 84, appeared to have died of natural causes.
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Remembering the brilliant comic who blazed a trail for free speech and was killed by "an overdose of police"
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Russel Timoshenko, 23, died from the injuries he suffered early Monday, the New York Police Department said.
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NEW YORK - 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 on TV&#39;s Law &amp; Order.
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Richard Avedon, who turned fashion  and portrait photography into art forms and captured  unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous  figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker  magazine said.
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Jerry Orbach never won the Emmy for playing detective Lennie Briscoe, but he earned something greater: the audience&#39;s respect and affection for giving life to a memorable character.
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NEW YORK Former National League MVP and admitted steroid user Ken Caminiti has died at age 41. His agent says Caminiti suffered a heart attack in the New York borough of the Bronx on Sunday.