1. Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina was an American stage and film actor.
28 Facts About Dennis Farina
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Dennis Farina worked as a Chicago police detective prior to his acting career.
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Dennis Farina played Miami mobster Albert Lombard in three episodes of Miami Vice.
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Dennis Farina's father, who was from Villalba, Sicily, was a Chicago-area doctor, and his mother a homemaker.
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Dennis Farina began working for director Michael Mann as a police consultant, which led Mann to cast him in a small role in the 1981 film Thief.
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Dennis Farina worked with Mann again, as mobster Albert Lombard, in several episodes of Miami Vice.
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Dennis Farina moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films and theater before Mann chose him for his Crime Story series, which aired on NBC from 1986 to 1988.
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Dennis Farina later starred as the title character in Buddy Faro, a short-lived 1998 private detective series on CBS.
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Dennis Farina played mob boss Jimmy Serrano in the comedy-crime film Midnight Run; and Ray "Bones" Barboni, a rival criminal to Chili Palmer, in Get Shorty.
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Dennis Farina played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Michael Mann's Manhunter, the first film to feature the character Hannibal Lecter.
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Dennis Farina played a baseball manager in Little Big League and a nemesis basketball coach in Eddie.
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Dennis Farina won an American Comedy Award for his performance in Get Shorty, and starred in the television sitcom In-Laws from 2002 until 2003.
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Dennis Farina appeared in the 2002 film Stealing Harvard, a comedy where he played a tough-talking, overprotective father-in-law.
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Dennis Farina had comic roles opposite Ed Harris and Helen Hunt in the HBO production of Empire Falls in 2005, and opposite Alan Rickman in the 2008 Bottle Shock.
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Dennis Farina appeared in two television network miniseries based on Joe McGinniss's true-crime books, Blind Faith and Cruel Doubt.
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Dennis Farina made a rare western, portraying legendary lawman Charlie Siringo in a 1995 television movie, Bonanza: Under Attack, a followup to the hit 1960s series.
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Dennis Farina replaced Robert Stack, who had hosted the series for its prior 15-year run.
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Dennis Farina played the title role in a 2011 independent film, The Last Rites of Joe May, written and directed by Joe Maggio, shot on location in Chicago.
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Dennis Farina was among the stars of a 2014 release, Authors Anonymous, playing a wannabe novelist with a fantasy of becoming another Tom Clancy.
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Again on television, Dennis Farina co-starred in the 2012 HBO horse-race gambling series Luck, with Dustin Hoffman, directed by Michael Mann.
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Dennis Farina had a recurring guest role in 2013 in the television comedy series New Girl, though his character was killed off prior to his death.
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Dennis Farina was married to Patricia Dennis Farina from 1970 until their divorce in 1980.
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Dennis Farina lived with his longtime girlfriend Marianne Cahill in Chicago and Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Dennis Farina was arrested on May 11,2008, for carrying a loaded.
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Dennis Farina was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, with bail set at $25,000.
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Dennis Farina claimed he had simply forgotten the weapon was still in his briefcase and never intended to take it on a plane.
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Dennis Farina died on July 22,2013 at the age of 69, in a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital from a pulmonary embolism.
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Dennis Farina was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.