Why did Lenny leave?
I just finished the end of the 14th season and in the last episode he packed up and left, saying basically that he'd had enough. Did the actor, Jerry Orbach, have a health problem or something?
sharewithout going back and checking for sure, I believe Lenny simply said: IT's TIME
shareYes I understand that. . . .but I wanted to know if Jerry Orbach had a reason for leaving, considering he died a year or two later. Did he have a serious health problem suddenly?
sharewell the I like to imagine that Jerry himself wrote that line: "It's Time"
shareJerry Ohrbach had been fighting prostate cancer for about 10 years. It worsened over time. The public was not informed until two weeks before his passing. He had left L&W for a role on Law and Order Trial by Jury, so he wouldn't have such a heavy workload, but only played in two episodes before dying of that cancer.
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