Saturday, May 28, 2011

Dead Page: One of Barney's Boys

STEVE LANDESBERG (1936-2010)

A Brainy 'Barney Miller' Cop

Comic actor who played intellectual Detective Arthur Dietrich in the long-running ABC sitcom "Barney Miller" died December 20th. He was believed to have been 74.

"Barney Miller" starred Hal Linden in the title role as a New York police captain running an offbeat group of officers in a Greenwich Village police station.

The show ran from 1975 to 1982, and included Abe Vigoda as Detective Phil Fish, Ron Glass as Detective Ron Harris and Max Gail as Detective Stanley "Wojo" Wojciehowicz.

This was one funny, funny show.


From the Dec. 22, 2010, Chicago Tribune.

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