Hill Street Blues News

Last week a new movie, "Public Enemies," was released. Based on a non-fiction book by Bryan Burrough, the movie is a fictional telling of the story of John Dillinger, a bank robber in 1933-34. That was the era of the auto gangs, groups of bandits who took advantage of having the same weapons and better cars than police to flit from state to state ...

The often soft-spoken, slightly built Joe Spano came into the public eye after more than a decade as a stage player in the San Francisco Bay Area when he was cast as Det.

As Sgt. Phil Esterhaus told his fellow officers at the start of every episode of Hill Street Blues: "Let's be careful out there," the National Weather Service presents a similar sentiment today via this special weather statement .

This burly character player of stage, screen, and TV is best known as Officer Andy Renko on Steven Bochco's acclaimed and innovative police drama "Hill Street Blues" . Haid effectively embodied a.... This burly character player of stage, screen, and TV is best known as Officer Andy Renko on Steven Bochco's acclaimed and innovative police drama ...

After acquiring undergraduate and graduate degrees from Pittsburgh's prestigious Carnegie Institute of Technology, Emmy-winning character actor Bruce Weitz went on to train at such august regional theaters as the Guthrie in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Actors Theatre of Louisville .

With the cancellation of ABC's 'Life on Mars,' it's official: The cop drama as we've known it since 'Hill Street Blues' in 1981 is dead.

Actor James Noble is 87. Actor James B. Sikking is 75. Actor Dean Stockwell is 73.

Jeffrey Tambor has played so many sycophants , eccentrics and bizarros , that people often project those roles onto him in real life.

For the American TV network ABC, the glossy family drama Brothers & Sisters has turned in the words of its executive producer, Ken Olin into a 'bona fide hit'. It sits happily with the ratings juggernauts ...

By last Thursday night, with the changing of the guard in Washington complete, some star power had returned to New York, and there, in the grand ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria, sat an assortment of media and ...

Prosky's immediate success in 1984 on Hill Street Blues as the replacement for the beloved desk sergeant played by Michael Conrad, who had died, reflected his acting acumen.

THE aptly named Con Melody in Eugene O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet" displays plenty of blarney and bluster, but rarely have these characteristics been conveyed as vividly as by Daniel J. Travanti in the ...

Well known and recognizable character actor Robert Plasky died this morning due to complications related to a heart procedure in Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, according to an Associated Press ...

The past week saw the passing of two fine old stage actors of whom I was particularly fond, and I was saddened to just only now hear about them.

Robert Prosky, a character actor with hundreds of credits on stage and screen including Mrs.

I review two off-Broadway plays in today's Wall Street Journal drama column, Friendly Fire's revival of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet and the Playwrights Horizons premiere of Craig Lucas' Prayer for My ...

The Buzz notes the passing of actor Robert Prosky, who among many roles on TV and in movies, played Sgt.

Speaking of HILL STREET BLUES ... Robert Prosky , who played Sergeant Jablonski on HILL STREET BLUES, has passed away at the age of 77.

Robert Prosky, the actor who appeared in such films as Christine, The Natural and Broadcast News, died Monday at the age of 77.