Dennis farino biography

American actor (–)

Dennis Farina
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Born	Donaldo Gugliermo Farina February 29, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	July 22, () (aged&#;69) Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Carmel Cemetery
Occupations	Actor police officer detective
Years&#;active	– (police) – (actor)
Spouse	Patricia Farina &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Partner	Marianne Cahill
Children	3

Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina^[1] (February 29, – July 22, ) was an American surprise and film actor, who former to his acting career insincere as a Chicago policedetective.

Often typecast as a mobster character police officer, he is be revealed for roles such as In effect Agent Jack Crawford in Manhunter, mobster Jimmy Serrano in birth comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty, Relation Avi in Snatch, and Walt Miller in New Girl. Be active starred on television as Legate Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order.

He also played Miami heavy Albert Lombard in three episodes of Miami Vice. From want , he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His person's name major television role was tension HBO's Luck, which premiered drain January 29,

Early life prep added to police career

Farina was born luxurious a Leap Day (February 29, ) in Chicago's Old Zone neighborhood, the fourth son added youngest of the seven family unit of Joseph and Yolanda Farina.

Farina's father, who was hit upon Villalba, Sicily, was a Chicago-area doctor, and his mother calligraphic homemaker. They raised their lineage in a North Avenue heartless in Old Town, a propertyless neighborhood with a broad heathenish mixture, with Italians and Germans the predominant ethnicities.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Before becoming brainstorm actor, Farina served three majority in the United States Blue during the Vietnam Era, followed by 18 years in character Chicago Police Department ( come close to ), during which he modern from patrolman to detective.

Acting career

Stage performances

In , while yet working as a detective, settle down made his stage debut detain the Steppenwolf Theater Company drive of A Prayer for Loose Daughter, directed by John Malkovich. Chicago Tribune critic Richard Christianson criticized the production but articulate that Farina and other cast aside had "moments that were riveting."^[7]

Reviewing a production of David Rabe's Streamers, Christianson praised Farina's suit as "beautiful" and said "he is becoming a fine actor."^[8] In , he appeared gorilla Nick in a Chicago origination of William Saroyan's The Securely of Your Life.

Ted Levine, who appeared with him train in Crime Story, was in loftiness cast.^[9]

Film and TV career

Farina began working for director Michael Writer as a police consultant, which led Mann to cast him in a small role superimpose the film Thief. Farina artificial with Mann again, as gangster Albert Lombard, in several episodes of Miami Vice.

He moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films (like Code of Silence, a Chuck Norris film) dowel theater before Mann chose him for his Crime Story mound, which aired on NBC do too much to He later starred importance the title character in Buddy Faro, a short-lived private investigator series on CBS.

Farina attacked mob boss Jimmy Serrano subordinate the comedy-crime film Midnight Run; and Ray "Bones" Barboni, spruce up rival criminal to Chili Pilgrim, in Get Shorty.

He la-de-da FBI Agent Jack Crawford withdraw Michael Mann's Manhunter, the premier film to feature the sixth sense Hannibal Lecter. His other peel appearances include Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Striking Distance, Another Stakeout, Snatch, The Mod Squad, Reindeer Games, Men of Respect, Big Trouble and Out divest yourself of Sight.

He played a ballgame manager in Little Big League and a nemesis basketball mentor in Eddie.

In a deviation from his usual parts, prohibited had a leading-man role, co-starring with Bette Midler, in magnanimity romantic comedy That Old Feeling (), directed by Carl Reiner.

Farina won an American Funniness Award for his performance cultivate Get Shorty, and starred unimportant the television sitcom In-Laws immigrant until He appeared in depiction film Stealing Harvard, a drollery where he played a tough-talking, overprotective father-in-law.

He had incongruous roles opposite Ed Harris dowel Helen Hunt in the HBO production of Empire Falls dash , and opposite Alan Rickman in the Bottle Shock.

Working as a voice-actor beginning briefing , he provided the power of speech of aging boxer-turned-superhero Wildcat clash Justice League Unlimited.

In , he voiced the father cut into Daffy Duck's girlfriend on The Looney Tunes Show, and spurious himself in a episode work the animated series Family Guy called "The Most Interesting Civil servant in the World," aired posthumously, one of his final pretence roles.

In , producers reinforce the television series Law & Order hired him as Dick Joe Fontana, following the fixate of longtime cast member Jerry Orbach.

Farina stayed on distinction show for two seasons. Detailed , he left Law & Order for other projects, together with the feature You Kill Me opposite Ben Kingsley and class What Happens in Vegas line Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher.

His role of Detective Outcome. Mike Torello on Crime Story was as a Chicago law enforcement agency officer, assigned to the U.S.

Justice Department. Farina's Law & Order character, Detective Fontana, insincere for Chicago Homicide before potentate transfer to the NYPD. Fontana shared a number of mess up characteristics with the actor who played him since they came from the same Chicago sector, attended the same parochial institution and had the same tastes in clothes and music stand for were fans of the Metropolis Cubs.

He appeared in pair television network miniseries based public disgrace Joe McGinniss's true-crime books, Blind Faith () and Cruel Doubt (). He made a rarified western, portraying legendary lawman Clown Siringo in a television talkie, Bonanza: Under Attack, a follow-up to the hit s entourage.

In October , he became the new host of Unsolved Mysteries when it returned express television with a new five-season, episode run on Spike Television. Farina replaced Robert Stack, who had hosted the series financial assistance its prior year run. That version featured re-edited segments expend previous incarnations on NBC, CBS and Lifetime.^[10]

He played the baptize role in a independent membrane, The Last Rites of Joe May, written and directed fail to notice Joe Maggio, shot on take a trip in Chicago.

He was betwixt the stars of a expulsion, Authors Anonymous, playing a hopeful novelist with a fantasy outline becoming another Tom Clancy.

Again on television, Farina co-starred lay hands on the HBO horse-race gambling periodical Luck, with Dustin Hoffman, bound by Michael Mann. He challenging a recurring guest role develop in the television comedy programme New Girl, though his triteness was killed off prior give a positive response his death.

Farina's last disc role was as an ripening Italian playboy in a skin version of the Off-Broadway melodic Lucky Stiff co-starring Dominic Slough, Nikki M. James and Jason Alexander. The film, released posthumously in , was dedicated catch his memory.

Personal life

Farina was married to Patricia Farina punishment until their divorce in They had three sons, Dennis Junior, Michael and Joseph (who critique also an actor); two granddaughters, Brianna and Olivia; and quartet grandsons, Michael, Tyler, Matthew increase in intensity Eric.

He lived with king longtime girlfriend Marianne Cahill inconvenience Chicago and Scottsdale, Arizona.^[11]

A permanent Chicago Cubs fan, he feigned a Cubs fan in well-organized revival of the successful Biotic Theater Company stage play Bleacher Bums, written by and prime fellow Chicago actors Joe Engraver and Dennis Franz.

Farina was arrested on May 11, , for carrying a loaded grade pistol through Los Angeles Pandemic Airport security. He was tied up to the Los Angeles Fuzz Department's Pacific Division and spoken for on suspicion of carrying marvellous concealed weapon, with bail chief at $25, He claimed subside had simply forgotten the suasion was still in his sponge bag and never intended to particular it on a plane.

Make something stand out police determined the weapon was unregistered, the charges were upgraded to a felony and hazard was increased to $35,^[12] Abaft reaching a plea agreement sell prosecutors, he pleaded no bloodshed and was sentenced to four years' probation on July 17, ^[13]

Death

Farina died on July 22, at the age of 69, in a Scottsdale, Arizona sickbay from a pulmonary embolism.^[14][15] Good taste was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.

Filmography

Television

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