Gone Too Soon: Actors Who Died While Filming A Movie Or TV Show

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Jerry Orbach

For more than a decade, television actor Jerry Orbach played Detective Lennie Briscoe on NBC’s long-running show “Law & Order.” In 2004, he left the show to join spin-off “Law & Order: Trial By Jury” but only taped two episodes before he passed away from prostate cancer. The 69-year-old native New Yorker had 20/20 vision up until his death and wanted to give the gift of vision. His eyes were donated to two different patients and Orbach appeared in an ad campaign for the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration in Manhattan after his death.

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