Dennis Farina was on Law Order among other shows.(Photo Paul Drinkwater NBC)
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Actor Dennis Farina a real life Chicago police officer who went on to play a detective on NBC's Law Order has died at 69.
According to his publicist Lori De Waal Farina died Monday morning in a Scottsdale Ariz. hospital after suffering a blood clot in his lung.
I was stunned and saddened to hear about Dennis' unexpected passing this morning Law Order creator Dick Wolf said in a statement on Monday. The Law Order family extends sympathy and condolences to his family. He was a great guy.
The mustachioed Farina was accustomed to playing characters on either side of the law such Lt. Mike Torello on TV's Crime Story as well as mobsters like Jimmy Serrano in 1998's Midnight Run and Albert Lombard on Miami Vice. He had a fruitful partnership with that show's creator Michael Mann having also starred in his films Thief and Manhunter.
Though cops and robbers parts were his bread and butter Farina did venture out of his comfort zone taking on comedy work in 1997's That Old Feeling and a period drama in 1998's Saving Private Ryan.
The 1990s were a prolific period for Farina. In addition to Steven Spielberg Farina also worked with directors Steven Soderbergh (1998's Out of Sight) and Barry Sonnenfeld (1995's Get Shorty).
By the time he was chosen to replace the late Jerry Orbach on Law Order in 2004 Farina had transitioned from a hey it's that guy character actor to being recognized in his own right. His character Det. Joe Fontana drew heavily from Farina's own life in Chicago even sharing the same neighborhood and alma mater.
After leaving Law Order in 2006 he went on to host NBC's resurgent Unsolved Mysteries as well as starring opposite Alan Rickman in 2008's Bottle Shock.
He also had a major role in HBO's doomed horse racing drama Luck which was canceled after animals died during the production.
Most recently he had guest starred on the Fox sitcom New Girl as the con man father of Nick (Jake Johnson). He had two more films in the pipeline as well Authors Anonymous currently in post production and Lucky Stiff which was in the midst of filming.
Farina is survived by partner Marianne Cahill and three sons from his marriage to Patricia. They were married 10 years before they divorced in 1980.
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