But the growl was the writers idea and all the hairbags and all that slang was all theirs. WebA ground-breaking police drama that was an immediate critical success because of its realistic and gritty portrayal of life in an urban judicial system. ", 20. "Steven Bochco was on set that night, and he came to me and said, 'Joe Coffey's life is in the hand of your agents right now,'" Marinaro tells Yahoo TV. HSB.net: Can you tell us a little about how the show was structured with regards to forward planning, for example Maybe he was unwell at an earlier stage of his life. Afterwards I went to a meeting with Bochco and some of the executives, I had an idea in my head for something Mick Belker, was a college friend of Bochco's. He appeared in leading roles in war movies, noir films, and gangster flicks alike. (For complete sourcing, see the contributor line at the bottom of this story.). was canceled but Kiel told me the huge success brought big increases in pay to the actors and the producers decided to do another show, The cops were flawed; the story lines were not resolved in a single episode; characters you loved died while having sex. [Laughs.] We won everything. That was important. Frank Furillo, was married to Bochco. "We were anything but heroes. Andy Renko. Here are twelve "Hill Street Blues" actors you may not know passed away. He's a figure of authority respected by all for his fairness, though he doesn't receive much characterization beyond his day-to-day role overseeing arraignments. Its absolutely the high point. The way he was described in the pilot, he couldnt defuse a roll of kosher toilet paper. Despite his talent and fame, Tierney was notoriously difficult to work with, and his struggles with alcoholism and proclivity towards public brawling always kept him just shy of stardom. 1. on to a desolate inner city street, with a police car speeding out of it! Haid: We went from a bunch of schmucks to be at the top of your class. On "Hill Street Blues,"his death was written into the show, though his cause of death was changed. Conrad earned critical praise for his performance, winning two Emmy Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category. This culminates in a hostage situation on a prison bus that pulls no punches and is one of the scariest and most intense sequences in the entire series. He was 82 years old (via Los Angeles Times). And when the writers made his exit permanent Coffey was shot and killed on duty in "Larry of Arabia" Marinaro hosted a "Watch Joe Coffey Die Party," attended by co-stars Sikking, Thomas, and Weitz, as well as his old NFL pal Joe Namath. If you allow yourself to continue to be swept up in it, there can only be disaster at the end. Belker puts the chicken away, picks up another chicken. Joe Santos appeared in small roles in a handful of films in the late 1960s, but his first major film was 1971's "The Panic in Needle Park,"with Al Pacino and Kiel Martin. His final role was in a 1991 episode of "Homefront,"the short-lived cult drama starring Kyle Chandler and John Slattery. The tune became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981, earned a pair of Grammys, and is part of a body of work that inspired Pete Townsend to write the song "Mike Post Theme" for The Who's 2006 album "Endless Wire.". He was at MTM to audition for a movie about male strippers. I real don't know Was it a handful, that kind of creativity? We stuck intensely powerful melodrama side by side with almost slapstick farcical fall-down clowning. Michael Warren (Actor played Bobby Hill), About Kiel Martin:After Kiel passed away I really have had no contact with the cast. The main characters were perceived as being not capable and having flawed personalities. Hill Street Blues Kiel Martin Johnny "J.D." Haid: Steven said, Im doing a show over at MTM. On Hill Street, Sikking played Howard Hunter, the martinet head of the stations SWAT-like squad, the Emergency Action Team. Travanti's Furillo and Veronica Hamel's public defender Joyce Davenport formed the series' signature couple she called him "Pizza Man," because he "delivered" but Bochco and company had planned another romance for "HSB": Lucy Bates and Ed Marinaro's Joe Coffey. The Riverside County coroners office said the 46-year-old actor died Friday after suffering a cardiovascular collapse because of lung cancer. ", 19. Weitz: I can remember the first rehearsal, standing around in groups, talking about how important it is to make this as good as it can be, because the writing was phenomenal. Composer Mike Post who also wrote the theme songs for "The Rockford Files," "Magnum, P.I.," "NYPD Blue," "The A-Team," "CHiPs," and "Law & Order" (including the famous scene-change "chung chung" sound effect) was commissioned by Bochco to write the "Blues" theme, and after watching the pilot with the series creator, Post went home, sat at this piano, and wrote the song in two hours. And (the network) said OK. Now were stuck with it. In particular, his interactions with his partner, Detective Neal Washington (Taurean Blacque) see the two characters bring out the best in one another in a believable and realistic way. would call it a conventional route to a career in acting. On December 28, 1990, he died of lung cancer at the age of 46. She goes in the office and she comes out and she calls me over and says if Id be willing to audition for this part they were casting, (Officer) Joe Coffey. ", "Cops responded so well to the show because we didn't portray them as superheroes. I was a free agent again, and I auditioned for Hill Street Blues. Early in the shows run, Conrad developed cancer. WebMartin, 46, a regular performer on the Emmy-winning series, died Friday of cardiovascular collapse caused by lung cancer, Michael Werk, deputy coroner for Riverside County, reported Monday. The performances spoke for how talented the "HSB" cast was, but it didn't hurt that some of them had friends in high places. Sadly, he passed away in 2006 due to congestive heart failure. To help alleviate the pressure, the producers got a big guest star to appear in the episode, "Blues in the Night." "Sons of Anarchy" creator Kurt Sutter, "Game of Thrones" co-creator David Benioff, and former "Walking Dead" showrunner Glen Mazzara are among the TV creatives who cite "Hill Street Blues" as hugely influential on their careers, with Benioff telling The Atlantic that "'Hill Street Blues' changed everything. myself were all involved at some time. Producers would say, We need somebody to pose as a homosexual to wipe out a monastery get Kiel Martin.. But everything sort of gelled, my character worked well with everyone else, and Take a moment to thank Hill Street Blues., There is no Sopranos without Hill Street Blues, says Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson, who wrote a book tracing Hill Streets influence. to do the best we could for them and the script. I talked with Ed Marinaro a few times because he liked skiing in Sikking: We had a funeral for Esterhaus on camera. Michael and I agreed that we would do it on one condition: Well do this pilot for you on the condition that youll leave us completely alone to do whatever we want. Conrad died on November 22, 1983, during the series fourth season. where the music came from, but I am grateful I get the chance to create wonderful art, that can be laid on someone else's Series co-creator Steven Bochco, in Brett Martin's book "Difficult Men," said "HSB" was saved only by NBC's overall poor, pre-Must-See-TV ratings. "Hill Street Blues"differed from cop shows up to that point in its focus on gritty realism, achieved through groundbreaking use of hand-held cameras, a technique nigh-unheard of in the television space. Theyd always shoot him first. Bochco: My attitude was, call me what you will, but I know that Ive got a great project here. In the final three episodes of Season 4, Joe Santos stars as Jimmy Lastarza, a mafia goon trying to force video poker machines on local taverns. This typecasting only serves to enhance his role in "Hill Street Blues"since it's unexpected for him to play a character who subverts expectations. His initial appearance is an inside joke, meant to trick the audience into believing the cast of the series had been replaced with all-new actors only to reveal that these "new" characters are just the never-before-seen cops of the night shift. A notable Season 2 episode,"The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded," nearly sees LaRue's alcoholism get him fired from the force for good. Dennis Franz joined the cast. The lanky actor was a veteran of dozens of shows and movies but largely unknown until he landed the role of Esterhaus, the stations duty sergeant, who ended each episodes introductory roll call with the phrase, Lets be careful out there.. pulled off by one of the number and on the odd occasion been moved to tears by story line, particularly the scene where Veronica Hamel Even after all of the drama of seven seasons and a particularly emotional series finale, the work never ends. Sikking: The guy called up, he was screaming, You cant put that on there. Steven said, I can, too. It was a tremendous loss personally for everybody, professionally and especially a man like that who was like a block of granite. Marinaro says the enduring influence of "Hill Street Blues" can be summed up as the way the series portrayed its characters in a realistic light. There are too many loose ends. The writers occasionally mined the actors actual experiences for Hill Street stories: alcoholism, ethnic stereotyping, sexual politics. There was also much comedy and some of the cast and especially oneof the writers (no I am not saying which), loved to play While he didn't engage in any shootouts or car chases like some of the other characters, he was in charge of more procedural duties at the station. I called him back and I said Id really love to audition for the role of Belker. Menu. He remained in the lead credits, appears in the season finale and of course continued to the end of the show. Of course what you are doing at the moment is the most important thing in While the situation deteriorates as all hostage situations do, the idealistic Goldblume is nevertheless impressed by Calvin. Haid: Thats why it said (in the credits), Charles Haid as Renko.. We were a ragtag group of characters, and that's what made the show unique and popular. Bochco left after Season 5. Hirschfeld died in 2009 at the age of 67, presumably of natural causes. Unusually there were no egos and LaRue could have been a one-note sitcom character who happened to star in a gritty cop show, but Martin imbued him with so much soul that he came across as a fully realized, three-dimensional hero. Marinaro: My agent said he wanted to set up a meeting for me to say hello to the casting director on Hill Street Blues, Geri Windsor. 9. The hardest part to cast was the police captain, Francis X. Outside of "Hill Street Blues," Conrad was mainly a hardworking television actor, appearing on shows as varied as "Little House on the Prairie"and "The Incredible Hulk"to "All in the Family" and "The Bob Newhart Show." Bochco: At the end of the meeting, I got up and said, We cant do this project. Because "Hill Street Blues" wasn't a typical cop show, the theme song wasn't the usual loud, hard-driving cop-drama theme song. he told People. Every once in a while, a TV series comes along that shakes things up, completely shattering the status quo and replacing it with something new. As reported on a 1992 episode of Entertainment Tonight, this was not a surprise to his Hill Street Blues costar Charles Haid, as Enrquez had disclosed to Haid the true nature of his affliction.[5]. We chose that. I heard he said afterwards, theres no way I cant offer him the job. Frank Furillo (Emmy winner Daniel J. Travanti) was revealed to be a recovering alcoholic when he ordered one of his detectives, J.D. You know yourself if it seemed right, but your fellow actors are also working on their part and unless it is a very special "Blues" was produced by MTM Enterprises, the production company created by Mary Tyler Moore and then-husband Grant Tinker to produce "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Results of both tests were generally negative. AP. [4], Original reports said Enrquez died of pancreatic cancer. Are you going to do it that way? And we all said yeah, what about it? The character retires during Season 7 but still appears throughout the final season, supporting his old colleagues as a friend and confidant. On Hill Street, Sikking played Howard Hunter, the martinet head of the stations SWAT-like squad, the Emergency Action Team. It wasnt about the money. Actor Pat Corley only appeared in five episodes of "Hill Street Blues" in its third season, but he proved popular enough to make a final guest appearance in Season 6. she found out Kiel and I were buddies there. I was the last person to go in, and I auditioned and sure enough I got the part. But he had excellent timing. NBC was in last place. There are all these actors waiting around. So we scripted everything. A Warner Bros. We could put a human face on these people. spread from the sky. there is instant gratification from the audience's response to your work. Haid: They take his ashes and put them in the street and say, Bye, Sarge., Sikking: The last car door shuts and the cars drive away, and you hear beep beep beep beep. I worked in downtown Miami for 25 years and Kiel's dad Karl was a court recorder and would stop When Steven ran into Sammy, he told him about it, and there was a moment when we both thought he wasn't going to think it was funny. So if you get swept up by it in the beginning, thats one thing. His final film, 1989's "UHF," is dedicated to his memory. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. The building, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, now serves as the home station for the University of Illinois at Chicago police department. It just changed the rules of TV. HSB.net: Is it true that you were originally cast as Renko, but they thought you were not aggressive enough for In front are L to R: Michael Warren, Kiel Martin, Joe Spano, and Bruce Weitz. 7. The show received 21 Emmy nominations its first season. The husky tough-guy actor gives a tremendous performance in his scant few scenes; it's a testament to series lead Daniel J. Travanti that he is able to match Sweet during the more emotionally-charged moments. The 1981-87 NBC cop drama (which just got the Complete Series DVD treatment) not only helped turn around a last-place network, but it's no hyperbole to say the show changed television, for the better, in a way that current Golden Age of Television viewers continue to benefit from. All Rights Reserved. 18. Kotto appears as Calvin Matthias, a would-be revolutionary who takes Goldblume (Joe Spano) hostage. It took us a year or so to clean all that stuff up. Then theyd turn the camera around on us and hed have to do it again. They had done 13 episodes, and they got an order for four more, and the character of Joe Coffey was in those Other cast members included Michael Conrad (Phil Esterhaus), Michael Warren (Bobby Hill), Betty Thomas (Lucy Bates), Taurean Blacque (Neal Washington), Veronica Hamel (Joyce Davenport), Rene Enriquez (Ray Calletano) and Barbara Bosson (Fay Furillo). Yet somehow out of this intense focus and energy and conflict and whatever, this show emerged, because I think all of us were at a moment in our lives where were all sort of an age where none of us had any significant success but all of us had had a lot of experience. In the theatre everything is much more intermit, with a stronger connection and Youre not supposed to do that. His marriage to wifeGloria Kochberg lasted for nearly 70 years, only ending with his death from natural causes on January 6, 2014. Mad Men admirer? 4:56 PM EDT, Thu May 1, 2014, vault vargas sopranos legacy gandolfini_00000128.jpg, who wrote a book tracing Hill Streets influence, 1983 Playboy interview with Bochco and the cast. As the show grew over the course of its seven-season run, the characters grew and changed, and their flaws would frequently catch up to them, leading to their untimely, tragic, and avoidable deaths. WebBrowse 147 kiel martin hill street blues stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. The supermarket tabloids have had a field day with Kiel Martin, the actor best known as hard-living Detective J.D. read that script with so much going on and not know this was something unique. She told me she was a bunny at the Playboy club for a time. Joe: Yes Bob and I were friends for a long time before his tragic death because of course we both came up through Mike Kozoll and I had real conflicts with each other that were not pleasant. NYPD Blue. She does the exact same thing. Even Saturday Night Live was having its worst season ever. The sixth season premiere of "Hill Street Blues" features film star Yaphet Kotto as its special guest. HSB.net: Ramona Silipo said you are never happier than when you are doing theatre and especially when you are doing Steven Bochco, co-creator: I didnt particularly want to do another cop show. which led him to almost being kicked off the force. I knew if I gave it up, Id never get it back. Writing. I was doing mostly doctors, lawyers and accountants. Factory. The sum was truly greater than its parts. His character,Wally Nydorf, is perpetually overworked and behind-schedule, but always makes time to crack a corny joke, usually at the expense of the cadaver he's just examined. Martin (to Playboy, 1983): The writers are very perceptive reporters. With rising ratings came the joys and pitfalls of fame. Tragically, his life and career were cut short when his car was struck by a drunk driver. Weitz: Its not real. That part was John LaRue, but when I read the script I could see the He'd just live with it What power! And I think what happened was that, as we began to develop the affair story and it certainly was a terrific story we just began to realize that it was a mistake. attempts to steal another actors scene. 13. What happened to Martin in these weeks? Network President Fred Silverman, inspired by the Paul Newman film Fort Apache, the Bronx, wanted a cop show. 6. More surprisingly: Travanti made commercials for Almaden wine. All the shows that became popular were hybrids of what we did. Haid: We would come up with every euphemism for masturbation we could come up with. Haid: We got kicked out of the Playboy Mansion the Bunny House. When it premiered on NBC in January 1981, Hill Street was unlike anything else on American television. Yaphet Kotto is best known for his roles in "Live and Let Die"and "Alien,"as well as his starring role in another groundbreaking cop show, "Homicide:Life on the Street." And wed react a little bit off camera. I did see something on Kiel's bio that said there were no funeral services. When I got there, I went over to the offices and they were in the middle of a casting session. Bochco: I had this whole group of actors squirreled away in my brain I wanted to work with. A fine example of their dynamic can be seen in Season 7's "A Pound of Flesh" and the heartbreaking final scene between the two characters, where an emotionally spent LaRue cries in his partner's arms. Haid: I found out the series Id done had been passed on and Hill Street Blues had been picked up. Guess I'm not the Hollywood type. It was initially reported that he died of pancreatic cancerin 1990, but it was later revealed that he actually died due to complications from AIDS. And the building's exterior once again stands in as a TV series police station on Dick Wolf's "Chicago PD.". His final television appearance was in a 2006 episode of "The Sopranos." Sometimes causing delay or retakes in production, much to the annoyance of the on set accountant. Award-winning show that it is, Hill Street still sank by roughly 10% in the ratings since its peak in 1982-83. 24. Coffey's girlfriend is sexually assaulted. He then was cremated and his ashes were flown over the gathering and WebIt was still very popular when it was canceled but Kiel told me the huge success brought big increases in pay to the actors and the producers decided to do another show, NYPD an interest in acting, and prior to my retirement for football, I had worked in an acting class in New York, soI dont know that you would have liked the Renko part but in the end I was given Goldblume. What interested me about him was his vulnerability,or at least the potential for vulnerability. It was just so different. Marinaro: I asked to leave. Although he was Martin, 46, a regular performer on I remember one day, he just stopped. ACTOR KIEL MARTIN DIES AT 46 RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. -- Kiel Martin, 46, the actor who played shady detective Johnny "J.D." Aaron Spelling launched a similar series, "Hotel," in 1983. Repertory Theatre, as indeed did had a number of the cast. But, the real boil belonged to Bochco. potential for Belker. 2023 Cable News Network. Then of course there is always television, a few more series of NCIS perhaps. Updated Charles Haid . Weitz: It was devastating. 8. But sobriety is the keystone of who I am now.". There was a feeling of responsibility many of us felt On the stage, he starred in productions in Washington D.C. and New York City, including "Camping with Henry and Tom"and "Democracy.". Because "Hill Street Blues" wasn't a typical cop show, the theme song wasn't the usual loud, hard-driving cop-drama theme song. towards Steven (Bochco) and Michael Kozoll. Hill Street being Hill Street, though, it wasnt without a wicked twist. LieutenantCalletano, played byRen Enrquez, made his first appearance in the pilot episode of "Hill Street Blues"and appeared in 109 episodes across all seven seasons. Veronica Hamel . I As the months contact with. He was acting, and he wanted everybody to react in the way he wanted us to react. Joe: Yes I think as the series went on our input was listened to, but because it was so well written you did not often less than a week I know one thing for sure, I will never work with a crew like that again. It that part? Sopranos fan? By the mid-80s, the show was an established hit. ", 21. "We had Joe and Lucy having an affair," Bochco told Playboy in 1983. Bochco: We bring them all over, and I hear that (NBC head of casting) Joel Thurm has said, theyre all too dark. Then Bochco asked me what I thought and I suggested doing something opposite to that, light but conveying the non stop excitement [1] However, upon publication of his death certificate, Enrquez's cause of death was revealed to be complications resulting from AIDS. Here is Hill Streets story. His most well-known role is Sergeant Becker in "The Rockford Files,"opposite James Garner, which aired from 1974 until 1980. Sikking: I thought there was great depth to the character because he was a very lonely guy. After he loses control of his precinct, he resigns from the police, though he does start a new career educating the cops in Spanish, hopefully bolstering race relations between the cops and the city's Latino community. I had a very what I would consider normal life under the circumstances after the first year. His most famous teammate: Lew Alcindor, aka Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Id killed every Gdamned thing in America, including nuns and babies. ", 15. In all my years in the industry I cannot remember a better cast to work with. 12. Robert Hill. WebKiel Martin was born on July 26, 1944 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Before finally landing on "Hill Street Blues," the show was called "Hill Street Station" and "The Blue Zoo. Its ratings didnt grow at all last season. This article about an American television actor born in the 1930s is a stub. And Hunter says, 'You mean like that colored entertainer?' was too tough for me. Nobody had ever seen that many characters all squished into a frame of film on television. His mother Eileen called me in Miami to see if I was coming to Palm Springs for the celebration and I told her it So I became a regular.". Can you imagine having the power to give a boil to anybody in this cast? Joe: It has been a pleasure chatting to you guys and I promise I will put a good word in with those I am still in Brett Martins assessment in his 2013 book Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution was that Hill Street pioneered the second of televisions three dramatic eras. father were very close friends of mine. Marinaro: We were way ahead of our time. Good. Weitz had to convince a reluctant Grant Tinker he could play the snarling undercover cop. The portrayal of law enforcement people was so different," says Marinaro, who's in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a movie sequel to his Spike TV comedy "Blue Mountain State. James B. Sikking . idea. Female police officers still tend to be looked upon with less trust and respect than male officers and are treated more as sex objects in their departments. "They were negotiating a deal. He just couldnt stand it. 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