UPDATE: The former Chicago police officer played good guys and bad on such series as 'Law & Order' and 'Crime Story' and in such films as 'Midnight Run' and 'Get Shorty.' By Erin Carlson, Duane Byrge ...

It’s a cold day in Miami Beach when we first meet Ray Barboni. So cold, the radio says it might reach 34 degrees. Barboni walks over to Chili Palmer (played by John Travolta) and cracks himself up ...

(AP) Dennis Farina, a former Chicago cop who as a popular actor played a cop on “Law & Order,” has died. Lori De Waal, his representative, says Farina died Monday morning in a Scottsdale, Ariz., ...

Law & Order actor Dennis Farina has died, aged 69. The star - who also featured as mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run - passed away on Monday morning (July 22), his publicist has stated.

Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013) was an American actor. Often typecast as a mobster or police officer, he is known for roles such as FBI Agent Jack Crawford in ...

Plenty of actors invest time doing research for their roles, but most of them had nothing on Dennis Farina. Farina, who died July 22 of a blood clot in his lung, spent nearly two decades as a Chicago ...