Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on February 29th, 1944 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 69, Dennis Farina biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Dennis Farina (February 29, 1944-2013) was an American film and television actor, television presenter, narrator, and former Chicago police officer.
He was a character actor who was often depicted as a mobster or police officer.
He is best known for his appearances in the comedy Midnight Run as Jimmy Serrano, Ray "Bones" Barboni, and Cousin Avi in Snatch.
Lieutenant Mike Torello of the Crime Story and NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order appeared on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order.
He hosted and narrated Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV from 2008 to 2010.
His last big television appearance was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012.
Early life
Farina was born on a Leap Day (February 29, 1944) in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, Joseph's fourth son and youngest of Joseph and Yolanda Farina's seven children. Farina's father, who was from Villalba, Sicily, was a Chicago-area surgeon, and his mother, a homemaker. They raised their children in a North Avenue home in Old Town, a working-class neighborhood with a diverse ethnic mix, with Italians and Germans being the most common ethnic groups.
Farina spent three years in the Vietnam War before becoming an actor, followed by 18 years in the Chicago Police Department (1967 to 1985), during which he went from patrolman to detective.
Personal life
Farina's mother, Patricia Farina, was married from 1970 to 1980 before her divorce in 1980. Dennis Jr., Michael, and Joseph (who is also an actor); two grandchildren, Brianna and Olivia; and four grandchildren, Michael, Tyler, Matthew, and Eric were all of them. Marianne Cahill, his longtime girlfriend, lived in Chicago and Scottsdale, Arizona.
He was a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan. In 1988, after the success of the 1977 Organic Theater Company stage play Bleacher Bums, written by and starring Chicago actors Joe Mantegna and Dennis Franz, he became a Chicago Cubs fan.
Farina was arrested on May 11, 2008, for carrying a loaded.22-caliber rifle through Los Angeles International Airport security. He was taken to the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Division and arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of a concealed weapon, prompting an arrest of $25,000. He said he had simply forgotten the weapon was still in his briefcase and never intended to carry it on a plane. The charges were charged as a felony after police determined that the weapon was unregistered, and the bail was increased to $35,000. On July 17, 2008, after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to two years of probation.
Show business career
Farina began serving as a police consultant for director Michael Mann, which led to Mann's appearance in the 1981 film Themef. In several episodes of Miami Vice, Farina appeared with Mann as mobster Albert Lombard. Before Mann selected him for his Crime Story series, which aired on NBC from 1986 to 1988, he moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films (such as Code of Silence, a 1985 Chuck Norris film) and theater. He starred in Buddy Faro, a short-lived 1998 private detective series on CBS, where he later starred as the title character.
In the comedy-crime film Midnight Run, Farina played mob boss Jimmy Serrano; and Ray "Bones" Barboni, a rival criminal to Chili Palmer, appeared in Get Shorty. In Michael Mann's Manhunter, the first film to introduce Hannibal Lecter, he appeared as FBI Agent Jack Crawford. Saving Private Ryan, Striking Distance, Another Stakeout, Snatch, The Mod Squad, Reindeer Games, Men of Honor, Big Trouble, and Out of Sight are among Steven Spielberg's film appearances. He was a baseball manager in Little Big League and a rival basketball coach in Eddie.
In the romantic comedy That Old Feeling (1997), directed by Carl Reiner, he had a leading-man role in a departure from his normal roles.
Farina received an American Comedy Award for his role in Get Shorty and appeared in In-Law's television sitcom From 2002 to 2003. He appeared in the 2002 film Stealing Harvard, a comedy in which he portrayed a stern-talking, overprotective father-in-law. In the HBO production of Empire Falls in 2005, he costarred Ed Harris and Helen Hunt, as well as Alan Rickman in the 2008 Bottle Shock.
He appeared on Justice League Unlimited as a voice actor starting in early 2005. He appeared on "The Most Interesting Man in the World" in early 2013, as one of his final acting roles, in early 2013.
Following the departure of longtime cast member Jerry Orbach, the producers of Law & Order recruited Detective Joe Fontana in 2004. Farina appeared on the program for two seasons. It was revealed in May 2006 that he was still under Law & Order for other projects, including the 2007 You Kill Me starring Ben Kingsley and the 2008 What Happens in Vegas with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher.
Detective Lt. Mike Torello on Crime Story started as a Chicago police officer stationed in the US Justice Department and was posted to the US Justice Department. Detective Fontana, Farina's Law & Order, served for Chicago Homicide before being transferred to the NYPD. Fontana also had a few other characteristics with the actor who played him. They came from the same Chicago neighborhood, attended the same parochial school, had the same tastes in clothes and music, and were avid fans of the Chicago Cubs.
He appeared in two television network miniseries based on Joe McGinniss' true-crime books, Blind Faith (1990) and Cruel Doubt (1992). In a 1995 television film, Bonanza: Under Attack, a sequel to the hit 1960s series, he made an unusual western portraying legendary lawman Charlie Siringo.
He became the new host of Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV in October 2008. Farina recalled Robert Stack, who had been hosting the series for the first 15 years. This version featured re-edited segments from previous iterations on NBC, CBS, and Lifetime.
He appeared in The Last Rites of Joe May, a 2011 independent film directed by Joe Maggio, shot on location in Chicago. Authors Anonymous, a 2014 film starring a wannabe author with a dream of becoming another Tom Clancy, was one of the stars.
Farina co-starred in the 2012 HBO horse-race betting series Luck, directed by Michael Mann, on television. In 2013, he appeared in a recurring guest appearance in New Girl, but his character was killed off before his death.
Farina's last film role was as an elderly Italian playboy in a film adaptation of the Off-Broadway musical Lucky Stiff starring Dominic Marsh, Nikki M. James, and Jason Alexander. The film, which was released posthumously in 2014, was dedicated to his memory.
