1. Steve Landesberg was an American actor and comedian known for his role as the erudite, unflappable police detective Arthur P Dietrich on the ABC sitcom Barney Miller, for which he was nominated for three Emmy Awards.
12 Facts About Steve Landesberg
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Steve Landesberg appeared in 124 episodes, from the last episode of the 1975 season until the end of the series in 1982.
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Stephen Landesberg was born on November 23,1936, in the Bronx, New York, to Ann Landesberg, a milliner, and Abraham Landesberg, a grocery store owner.
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Steve Landesberg was part of improv group New York Stickball Team, which performed several shows that aired on cable television shortly after Barney Miller went off the air.
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Steve Landesberg had a successful career as a stand-up comedian, often appearing on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show.
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Steve Landesberg was fond of using celebrity impersonations and dialects in his monologues, and employed them for comic effect.
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Steve Landesberg was a member of the cast of the 1974 CBS situation comedy Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, and co-starred in the TV pilot Black Bart, a spin-off of Blazing Saddles.
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Steve Landesberg starred in Starz's original show Head Case as Dr Myron Finkelstein.
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Steve Landesberg appeared in the motion pictures Wild Hogs, Leader of the Band, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
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Steve Landesberg attempted a comeback to television playing a public defender in Seattle in an unsold sitcom pilot, The Best Defense, later aired on June 19,1995, on ABC.
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Steve Landesberg was a TV spokesman for AAMCO Transmissions in the 1980s and early 1990s, for Canadian Airlines in 1990, and for Office Depot in the 1990s.
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Steve Landesberg died from colon cancer on December 20,2010, aged 74.