Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Steve Landesberg Dies

Steve Landesberg, an actor who played Detective intellectual. Arthur Dietrich long ABC series "Barney Miller," has died. It has been estimated at 74.
Landesberg died yesterday morning at Cedars-Sinai Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his agent, Jeff Leavitt. No reason was given.
"Barney Miller" with Hal Linden in the title role as a police captain in New York to manage its unconventional group of officials from Greenwich Village Police Station.
The show, which lasted from 1975 to 1982, including Abe Vigoda as Det. Phil Fish, Ron Glass as Det. Ron Harris and Max Gail as Det. Stanley "Wojo" Wojohowicz.
Landesberg joined the cast in 1976, Dietrich, the Times critic was once known as "unfortunate brain."
"I'm not really very similar to Dietrich," he told the Washington Post in 1979. "He said. Science, technology, economy. I have no interest in it. ... I try to play as a cop. Intellectual and fun, but a good cop. "
Landesberg said the police, "I say they know people like Dietrich ... most police officers do not draw their weapons. That's why they show our love."
Landesberg was 23rd in New York Born November 1936, after the public records. Profile in the Washington Post and refused to reveal her age. "Let's say I started late," he said. "It hurts, casting directors ... If you like your age -. Let's assume you are saying in middle age - and I've never heard of you, do not set are good, or what" and it belongs had. I tell my friends not to tell her age. "
Landesberg said he is still growth. "And if I was on duty quietly, but in the barracks makes me crazy," he told the Oakland (Calif.) Times-Star in 2003. "One day I took it on stage."
He started comedy in clubs in New York in 1969, operates in the same stadiums David Brenner and Jimmie Walker.
"Before I worked in many hotels, deputy director of the credit," Detroit Free Press said 1997th "It is an employee of a party, the police and the director. To check fraud and credit card bad that my training early for the training of police to play a detective novel."
Landesberg his first appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson "in 1970 and became a familiar face on television.
Before "Barney Miller" also appeared on "Dean Martin presents the Bobby Darin Amusement Co." 1972, "Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers" 1974/75.
He had roles in "The Golden Girls" in 1991 and "That '70s Show" in 2007. His role as the youngest film was a pediatrician, Dr. starring Jason Rosenbaum in 2008 comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" Sailing and Kristen Bell.
Landesberg and commercials, including for a shipping company in 1985. During the filming, he met his wife Nancy, a producer who survives him with a girl.

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