JERRY ORBACH - DOCUMENT SIGNED 12/20/1968 - HFSID 320446

JERRY ORBACH
He signs a release form for News Syndicate Co. Inc.
Document signed: "Jerry Orbach", 8½x11. New York City, December 20, 1968. Release form for News Syndicate Co., New York City, consenting use of Orbach's name, picture or portrait in the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate Inc. for all promotional or editorial purposes, excluding commercial advertising.In 1960, Jerry Orbach (1935-2004) created the role of flamboyant interlocutor El Gallo in the long-running off-Broadway smash The Fantasticks; the show closed in 2002. He has since starred in such Broadway productions as Carnival (1961), revivals of Guys and Dolls (1965) and Annie Get Your Gun (1966), Promises Promises (1968), 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), Chicago (1975) and 42nd Street (1980). He was nominated for Tony Awards for his roles in Guys and Dolls and Chicago, winning the 1969 Tony Award for Best Actor (Musical) in Promises, Promises. Starting with 1985's Brewster's Millions, the actor managed to show up in at least one movie per year. Orbach's more fondly remembered screen roles include the part of Jennifer Grey's father in Dirty Dancing (1987), the voice of Lumiere, the candelabra, in the Oscar winning animated feature Beauty and the Beast (1990) and Billy Crystal's easily amused agent in Mr. Saturday Night (1992). Orbach was nominated for an Emmy for his role as NYPD Detective Lennie Briscoe on Law and Order (1992-2004). He reprised his role as Briscoe in early episodes of Law and Order: Trial By Jury (2005) filmed before his death of prostate cancer in New York on December 28, 2004. Corners lightly creased. Fine condition.