Dennis Farina, who died Monday morning at the age of 69 of a blood clot in his lung, had two distinct careers. He was a veteran Chicago police officer until a chance meeting with director Michael Mann, who was in the Windy City to make his first feature film, 1981's "Thief," changed his career path. ...
But he still didn't give up his day job as a cop. Mann gave him a guest-starring role on his landmark NBC series "Miami Vice" and then cast him as FBI agent Jack Crawford in his 1986 thriller, "Manhunter." ...
Though his acting career saw him mostly in tough-guy roles â€" notably as mobster Jimmy Serrano in the Robert De Niro-Charles Grodin film "Midnight Run" â€" Farina proved to be a versatile character actor, playing Jennifer Lopez's concerned dad in Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight," Bette Midler's ex-husband in the 1997 comedy "That Old Feeling" and an Army officer in Steven Spielberg's World War II epic, "Saving Private Ryan." ...
... "Law & Order": Farina was back on the beat from 2004 to 2006 on the long-running NBC drama series as Joe Fontana, a nattily dressed, high-living homicide detective at the 27th Detective Squad of the NYPD.
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