Denis Arndt, star named at Tony by “Heisenberg” and veteran by David E. Kelley TV Show, dies at 86
Denis Arndt, a character and favorite actor of the writer and TV producer David E. Kelley, is launched in “La Law”, “Picket Fences” and “Chicago Hope”, and later gaining a nomination to Tony for his Broadway The debut at the age of 77 in a comedy on non -correspondent lovers died. He was 86 years old.
Arndt died “peacefully in his bed” in his house in the cabin Ashland, OregonHis family announced in a obituary published on March 26th. He noticed that he was born in 1939, the same year “The Wizard of Oz” was released.
“It was like dad’s life,” he said. “It started in black and white and blossomed in a life of color, brilliance, bold adventure and passion. And it was also a little trippy, as oz.”
Arndt was a veteran of the Vietnam pilot of helicopters that twice received the purple heart and subsequently flew helicopters in Alaska. He turned to acting after moving SeattleSpending multiple seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and performs as the first member of the Intiman Theater of Seattle.
His career began in the mid -1980s with roles in the “Crime Story” and “Wiseguy” television shows and would have spent the 90s on TV and films, with a highlight one of the cops who question the character of Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct” by Paul Verhoeven.
Making his first and only Broadway appearance at the age of 77 in front of Mary-Louise Parker, Arndt received the applause for his performance in “Heisenberg”, who debuted off-broadway in 2015 before hitting Broadway a year later.
In the comedy of Simon Stephens, the 42 -year -old Georgie from the Mouth for Ball of New Jersey meets at random a 75 -year -old Irish butcher bored, Alex, in a London railway station and a strange courtship begin.
The Associated Press was enchanted by the game of artists and Stephens: “Capture new love and old love at the same time, hope and fear, the new world and the old man. He transformed the simplest stories – the boy meets the girl – into a unexpectedly rich thing with only two chairs, two tables and two actors.”
On TV, Arndt was a frequent collaborator of Kelly, starting with “La Law” and then like the lawyer Franklin dell on “Pichet Fences” for four seasons. He also had roles in “Chicago Hope”, “Ally McBeal”, “The Practice”, “Boston Public”, “Boston Legal” and “Mr. Mercedes”.
His other credits for small screen include “Providence”, The Wonder Years, “” Murder, wrote “,” Life goes on “,” Herman’s Head “,” touched by an angel “,” Gray’s Anatomy “and” The Good Fight “.
He survived his wife Magee and his children, Scott, Tammy, Laurie, Kirsten, Bryce, McKenna and Tanner.
