Mike Torello on Crime Story was as a Chicago police officer, assigned to the U.S. In May 2006, it was announced he was leaving Law & Order for other projects, including the 2007 You Kill Me opposite Ben Kingsley and the 2008 What Happens in Vegas with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher. Farina stayed on the show for two seasons. In 2004, producers of the television series Law & Order hired him as Detective Joe Fontana, following the death of longtime cast member Jerry Orbach. In early 2013, he voiced the father of Daffy Duck's girlfriend on The Looney Tunes Show, and played himself in an April 13, 2014, episode of the animated series Family Guy called " The Most Interesting Man in the World," aired posthumously, one of his final acting roles. Working as a voice-actor beginning in early 2005, he provided the voice of aging boxer-turned-superhero Wildcat on Justice League Unlimited. He had comic roles opposite Ed Harris and Helen Hunt in the HBO production of Empire Falls in 2005, and opposite Alan Rickman in the 2008 Bottle Shock. He appeared in the 2002 film Stealing Harvard, a comedy where he played a tough-talking, overprotective father-in-law. In a departure from his usual parts, he had a leading-man role, co-starring with Bette Midler, in the romantic comedy That Old Feeling (1997), directed by Carl Reiner.įarina won an American Comedy Award for his performance in Get Shorty, and starred in the television sitcom In-Laws from 2002 until 2003. He played a baseball manager in Little Big League and a nemesis basketball coach in Eddie. His other film 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 of Sight. He played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Michael Mann's Manhunter, the first film to feature the character Hannibal Lecter. He later starred as the title character in Buddy Faro, a short-lived 1998 private detective series on CBS.įarina played mob boss Jimmy Serrano in the comedy-crime film Midnight Run and Ray "Bones" Barboni, a rival criminal to Chili Palmer, in Get Shorty. He moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films (like Code of Silence, a 1985 Chuck Norris film) and theater before Mann chose him for his Crime Story series, which aired on NBC from 1986 to 1988. Farina worked with Mann again, as mobster Albert Lombard, in several episodes of Miami Vice. Film and TV career įarina began working for director Michael Mann as a police consultant, which led Mann to cast him in a small role in the 1981 film Thief. Ted Levine, who appeared with him in Crime Story, was in the cast. Reviewing a 1983 production of David Rabe's Streamers, Christianson praised Farina's performance as "beautiful" and said "he is becoming a fine actor." In 1984, he appeared as Nick in a Chicago production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. Chicago Tribune critic Richard Christianson criticized the production but said that Farina and other actors had "moments that were riveting." In 1982, while still working as a detective, he made his stage debut in the Steppenwolf Theater Company production of A Prayer for My Daughter, directed by John Malkovich. īefore becoming an actor, Farina served three years in the United States Army during the Vietnam Era, followed by 18 years in the Chicago Police Department (1967 to 1985), during which he advanced from patrolman to detective.Īcting career Stage performances They raised their children in a North Avenue home in Old Town, a working-class neighborhood with a broad ethnic mixture, with Italians and Germans the predominant ethnicities. Farina's father, who was from Villalba, Sicily, was a Chicago-area doctor, and his mother a homemaker. His last major television role was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012.įarina was born on a Leap Day (February 29, 1944) in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, the fourth son and youngest of the seven children of Joseph and Yolanda Farina. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. Often typecast as a mobster or police officer, he is known for roles such as FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Manhunter, mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty,Ĭousin Avi in Snatch, and Walt Miller in New Girl. Donaldo Gugliermo " Dennis" Farina (Febru– July 22, 2013) was an American stage and film actor, who prior to his acting career worked as a Chicago police detective.
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