Known for:	One Life to Live, The Firm, Yentl
Birth name:	Solomon Krakovsky
Birthday:	24 February 1922, Seattle, Washington, USA

Is one of the few current Orthodox Jewish actors working today. He was a founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio Left the cast of Mission: Impossible after one season because, as an Orthodox Jew, he was unwilling to abide by the show's production schedule. (That would have required him to work on the Jewish Sabbath.) Was a founding member of the Actor's Studio and, as such, knew and worked with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Gene Hackman before they became famous. Is an alumnus of Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity. Played the Manhattan District Attorney in both Legal Eagles and Law & Order. He rarely shared any scenes with any of the actors who played cops on Law & Order. Left acting from 1967 to 1978. His son-in-law is a high school teacher in Manhattan, New York City. Has appeared with Roscoe Lee Browne in two different, completely unrelated productions in which he played the New York County District Attorney: Legal Eagles and Law & Order: Corruption. Although he and Jerry Orbach appeared in 177 episodes of Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Entitled together, the only time that they ever appeared on screen together was during one brief scene in the Law & Order: Corruption.

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