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  Farina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Fametracker :: Hey! It's That Guy! :: Dennis Farina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dennis Farina does such a great job playing cops for one very simple reason: he was a cop.
Dennis Farina is great at playing wiseguys because...well, probably because he spent some time with them when he was booking them or interrogating them or hitting them in the face with phone books or whatever it is cops generally do with criminals.
Whereas Dennis Farina was professionally trained in various devastating yet invisible methods of messing up political-convention protesters.
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 Cigar Aficionado | People Profile | Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina is a proud Midwesterner, born and raised in Chicago.
Those images are particularly vivid for Farina because he spent 20 years walking and driving the city streets as a member of the Chicago Police Department, first as a cop, then as a detective.
Dennis G. Farina came into the world on February 29, 1944, the fourth son and youngest of seven children of Joseph and Yolanda Farina.
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 Bio for Dennis Farina on MSN Movies
Lovable tough guy character actor Dennis Farina was already well into his first career as a Chicago cop before he was able to turn his occasional acting gigs into a prodigious new line of work.
Farina continued to moonlight as an actor for several years, appearing in local theater and occasional movies, including Final Jeopardy (1985) and the Chuck Norris vehicle Code of Silence (1985).
Farina returned to television during the fall 2002 season with a lead role as a comically monstrous Meet the Parents-esque father-in-law on the sitcom The In-Laws (2002).
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 Gothamist: Dennis Farina To Law & Order?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dennis Farina is a perfect fit, especially being a former cop himself.
Dennis was a cop for 16 years before starting his acting career and he will bring his expertise to the show, along with some fine acting...
Dennis really was the guy he pretends to be in a lot of his film work.
www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/05/04/dennis_farina_to_law_order.php   (2701 words)

  
 NBC.com > Cast Biographies > Dennis Farina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dennis Farina, one of Hollywood’s busiest actors and a familiar face to moviegoers and television viewers, joined the esteemed cast of NBC’s venerable “Law & Order” last year in its 15th season as the seasoned New York City Police Detective Joe Fontana.
Farina is also known for his role in Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight,” as the retired lawman-father of Jennifer Lopez’ character.
Farina’s numerous other big-screen credits include John Frankenheimer’s “Reindeer Games,” “The Mod Squad,” Martin Brest’s “Midnight Run,” “Little Big League,” “Striking Distance,” “Another Stakeout” and two Michael Mann films: “Manhunter” and “Thief” (the latter marked Farina’s film debut).
www.nbc.com /Law_&_Order/bios/Dennis_Farina.html   (302 words)

  
 Farina on "Law & Order" Duty - May 17, 2004 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Veteran Hollywood tough guy Dennis Farina, known for playing a motley assortment of movie mobsters as well as a no-nonsense P.I. on the Peacock's 1980s series Crime Story, is taking over for Jerry Orbach in NBC's top-rated franchise.
Farina's character has still to be hashed out, but Wolf tells TV Guide that he envisions the 60-year-old actor playing an "Italian cop who's an iconoclast…and a confirmed bachelor."
Farina's character will likely partner up with Det. Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin) on the ripped-from-the-headlines drama, which is now entering its 15th season and still going strong, averaging 15.9 million viewers a week and consistently ranking in the Nielsen top 15.
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 Dennis Farina joining Law and Order? - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
Farina is going to kick ass and take names in this too.
I hope Farina treats this role like he did Marshall Cisco in "Out of Sight" - if he does, there'll be enough wise cracks to keep Orbach fans happy until "Trial by Jury" debuts in midseason.
Farina was a cop before he was an actor, right?
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 MJ Forums -> Dennis Farina on the beat
Farina, the real-life ex-Chicago cop turned movie actor (when Michael Mann cast him in Thief), has been one of my favorite character actors for years.
Farina intends to ride this series out as long as they'll have him basically, and then 'retire'.
Dennis Farina is a great choice for L and O.........
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 CTV.ca - Dennis Farina--Law & Order- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Farina has been working as an actor for 20 years.
Farina also re-teamed in "Sidewalks of New York" with his "Saving Private Ryan" co-star Ed Burns.
Farina is also known for his role in Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight," as the retired lawman/father of Jennifer Lopez' character.
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 Dennis Farina gets lucky with ‘L&O’ - TV DRAMA - MSNBC.com
Then, Farina was recruited to join the cast of “Law and Order,” after longtime fixture Jerry Orbach announced he was leaving to join a spinoff.
Farina says he was already a fan of the show and liked the emphasis on the crime stories rather than the characters’ personal lives.
During an airport scene in an upcoming episode, Farina was supposed to run through a crowd with gun drawn.
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 Boston.com / A&E / TV / A new beat for Dennis Farina
You meet him, you have no doubt that Dennis Farina is a tough guy.
NEW YORK -- You meet him, you have no doubt that Dennis Farina is a tough guy.
Farina brings a striking contrast to the slouchy hang-doggedness epitomized by Briscoe.
www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2004/11/09/a_new_beat_for_dennis_farina?mode=PF   (710 words)

  
 Dennis Farina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dennis Farina (born February 29, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is a film and television actor, starring since 2004 as Detective Joe Fontana NBC's Law and Order.
He is a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer—the latter an appropriate choice, as Farina was an officer of the Chicago Police Department.
This biographical article related to television is a stub.
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 Dennis Farina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Interestingly, Farina had nothing to do with comedy or show business until a film called Thief was shooting in Chicago about twenty years ago.
At the time, Farina was a cop who had a friend that knew director Michael Mann.
Farina says working with the notoriously provocative Green was painless.
www.brntwdmagazine.com /jan.feb.02/farina/farina-1.html   (594 words)

  
 Dennis Farina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A Chicago cop for 18 years before turning to acting, Dennis Farina often plays the quintessential bad guy, a character he came up against plenty of times in real life.
Farina loves cigars and lit up with a buddy on a golf course.
Within minutes, helicopters were ready to drop water bombs on them as they played the fifth hole.
www.tribute.ca /all_actors/bios/1530.htm   (248 words)

  
 Dennis Farina News
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Actor Dennis Farina, star of "Law & Order" has agreed to come to town to serve as Grand Marshall for the Dean festival, scheduled for June...
In a controversial episode torn from recent headlines, Detectives Fontana (Dennis Farina) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) follow the sensational murder of the wife of Connecticut Governor Riordan (guest star Robin...
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 PopMatters | Film | Interviews | Dennis Farina - Snatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Since then, Farina has worked steadily, as the title character in TV's Buddy Faro, and in films as different from one another as Steven Soderbergh's Get Shorty, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, John Frankenheimer's Reindeer Games, and Ed Burns' Sidewalks of New York (opening later this year).
Right now, Farina is talking about his latest film, Guy Ritchie's Snatch, currently being advertised as "the coolest movie" of the year.
Farina is at that point in his career when cool directors like Ritchie and Soderbergh ask him to be in their movies.
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 Gothamist: Dapper Dennis's Debut
Farina's bio is already up on NBC's L&O site, and it seems that Detective Fontana will be "hard-nosed" to Jesse L. Martin's "passionate and compulsive" Detective Ed Green.
And based on this NBC photograph, Gothamist surmises that the episoide may be Abu-Gharib related; also, between Martin and Farina is Robert John Burke, the wonderful Hal Hartley regular.
Dennis Farina is a wonderful actor and I'm glad he has this new role.
www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/08/20/dapper_denniss_debut.php   (567 words)

  
 Dennis Farina Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Farina, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly, Illeana Douglas, James Marsden, W Earl Brown, Richard Portnow, Franco Nero, Peter Bogdanovich.
A PI is killed before he can tell Torello (Dennis Farina) the details of a murder, sending the Strike Force on a search for a possible witness, who is also wanted by Luca (Anthony Denison).
Starring Dennis Farina, Sam Waterston, Jesse L Martin, Annie Parisse, S Epatha Merkerson, Fred Dalton Thompson.
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 Dennis Farina Photos - Dennis Farina News - Dennis Farina Information
When a teenage boy commits suicide after firing on a doctor and hitting an innocent party, Fontana and Green investigate why he was after the doctor to begin with and learn that Jeremy Miller's younger sister had recently died of A.I.D.S. Throughout the course of the investigation, detectives are...
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Law & Order, the longest running crime series and the second longest-running drama series in the history of American broadcast television, started it's 16th season on NBC in the fall of 2005.
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 Dennis Farina brings experience to his roles - TV DRAMA - MSNBC.com
NEW YORK - You meet him, you have no doubt that Dennis Farina is a tough guy.
And yet...no one could be pleasanter and more self-effacing as, with an almost childlike sense of wonder, he discusses his second career: that of an unlikely star.
It’s a formula that has not only kept this procedural drama on the air for 15 years and counting, but also spun off two progeny, with a third, “Law and Order: Trial By Jury” (to feature Orbach), due midseason.
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 SPLICEDwire | "Big Trouble" review (2002) Barry Sonnenfeld, Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Dennis Farina, Ben Foster, Janeane ...
He mis-pronounces actor's names, at least once mis-identfies one (he calls Sizemore "Farina") and never makes a single mention of the film's post-9/11 delay, how he feels about it or how he feels about the film's airport security, hijacking and bomb-on-plane jokes in retrospect.
A pair of baffled low-grade mobsters (Dennis Farina and Jack Kehler) screw up their attempt to actually kill the girl's arrogant corporate embezzler step-daddy (Stanley Tucci) when they mistake Foster for a rival hit man.
Even with the rushed run-time, every performer is afforded the opportunity to fine-tune their broadly funny personalities with vaudevillian character traits, keeping the amusement level at maximum no matter how preposterous or plot-punctured the picture gets.
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 Zap2it - TV news - Farina Joins 'L&O' as Orbach Spins Off
As expected, Farina will play a New York detective, a role similar to Orbach's Lenny Briscoe.
"Dennis Farina's obviously going to be a different kind of cop from Jerry Orbach."
A former Chicago cop, Farina has played characters on all sides of the law in film and television projects including "Crime Story," "Manhunter," "Get Shorty" and "Big Trouble." He also starred in the short-lived NBC comedy "The In-Laws" for a brief period.
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 Farina's one of Chicago's finest | IndyStar.com
Farina was born on Feb. 29, 1944, a leap-year baby and the fourth son and youngest of the seven children of Joseph and Yolanda Farina.
His father was a doctor, his mother a homemaker, and they raised their kids in what was then a working-class neighborhood with a broad ethnic mix predominated by Italians and Germans.
Farina is 61, and his former teachers are all "in heaven now." But he saw some of his classmates at the recent wedding of one of his sons; he has three from a previous marriage, Michael, Joseph and Dennis Jr.
www.indystar.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050815/ENTERTAINMENT05/508150325/1007/LIVING   (890 words)

  
 IGN: Guy’s Guys: A Chat with Snatch Stars Jason Statham and Dennis Farina
DENNIS FARINA: I think Lock, Stock put him on the map immediately, I’ve never seen a film cut together like that.
FARINA: Oh yeah, there were no females in the movie; there were females on the set, you know script people and technicians, but we had a lot of fun.
FARINA: They’re the only critics I listen to; they call me up and say, “Did you stink in that movie…” or “You were really good in that.” They’re very, very honest.
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 SPLICEDwire | Dennis Farina interview for "Big Trouble" (2002)
Comedic scuzball extraordinaire, Farina has played tough guys and cops in movies and on TV since the early 1980s.
As the elevator doors close, Farina turns to me and says, "So where ya from?" And here I thought I'd be the one asking the questions.
A: You know, when they released "Sidewalks of New York" (a Edward Burns-directed Manhattan romantic comedy-drama in which Farina had a supporting role), there were some shots with the towers...
www.splicedonline.com /02features/dfarina.html   (2196 words)

  
 Dennis Farina | Jerry Orbach | Law & Order | news : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dennis Farina will replace Orbach on ''L&O.'' The former ''Crime Story'' star and real-life cop will step in, while 12-year ''L&O'' vet Orbach moves to a new spinoff by Gary Susman
Replacing him on the beat at the original show this fall will be another veteran cop/actor, Dennis Farina, the network announced Monday.
''I've known Dennis for 20 years, and he's a terrific actor, a consummate professional and a truly nice guy,'' said executive producer and franchise mastermind Dick Wolf in a statement.
www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,639136_10_0_,00.html   (503 words)

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