RIP Dennis Farina

[Commander in Chiefin]

Dennis Farina -- who starred as Det. Joe Fontana on "Law & Order" -- died today in Scottsdale, Arizona after suffering a blood clot in his lung. He was 69.

Farina is a Hollywood legend -- who appeared in tons of classic films and TV shows including "Get Shorty," "Snatch" and "Midnight Run." He also appeared in HBO's series "Luck."
Farina -- who was born in Chicago in 1944 -- is survived by his 3 adult children from his marriage to Patricia Farina. They divorced in 1980. He also has two granddaughters and four grandsons.

Farina's rep says the actor is also survived by "the love of his life of 35 years, Marianne Cahill." It doesn't appear the two were ever married.

Before he became an actor, Farina was a cop with the Chicago Police Department from 1967 to 1985.

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[Swiggy]

RIP, Brother Farina, Ray Barboni da gawd

 

[Uncle_Dirty]

RIP, this guy was great.

 

[MewTwo]

Lenny Briscoe
Tony Soprano
and now Detective Fontana

 

[SoulController]

loved him in so many things, Ray Barboni was his masterpiece tho. so many lines

 

[R=G]

RIP....

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

RIP

 

[Brofato]

The GOAT scene in Goodfellas

RIP

My man, that is not dennis farina or maybe you're just posting cause it was mentioned

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

My man, that is not dennis farina

i know that's why i deleted it...meant to post

 

[Brofato]

i know that's why i deleted it...meant to post

I was just looking for that, haha

 

[Urbanmiracle]

Damn man RIP

 

[chemicalsword]

I enjoyed his work. rip.....

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

Damn, RIP.

Funny, I remember his character just recently dying on The New Girl and I was thinking that dang, so he's not going to be on the show anymore and then he turns up dying IRL.

Didn't know he was living in Scottsdale, AZ.

Also, interestingly enough, the first time I seen/heard of the guy was in this old ass martial arts cop movie called 'Street Crimes' (he was the star, but not doing any chop-socky...probably for the best). I'd been thinking about this movie for a while and I knew he was one of the main leads and had been thinking about researching the name of the movie by looking him up again. Finally got around to doing so upon hearing of his death.

 

[General Mills]

Lenny Briscoe
Tony Soprano
and now Detective Fontana

I was getting ready to say remember Lenny. He had the funniest one liners.

 

[CapitalOne]