Jerry Orbach: More Than Meets The Ear

Due to ABC Family showing Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Disney's Aladdin on a repetitive basis, I found myself going to imdb.com to read the names of the voice actors for the different characters.  Most of the actor identifications seemed reasonable to me.  Yet, there was one character whose human counterpart's name I was very amazed at reading.  This character was Lumiere, the candlestick from Beauty and the Beast.  I was taken aback to find that Jerry Orbach, an actor from Law & Order and/or the father character from Dirty Dancing, provided that voice to that epic Disney film.

This above picture is from the following website: http://beautybeast.enchanted-rose.org/beautybeast+cast.php

The title of the webpage is "Tale As Old As Time 1991-2011" and it is a fansite for this amazing movie.

Jerry Orbach seemed to me to have a very deep manly voice and a serious manner in his live-action roles, so finding that he had played a lighthearted flirtatious French candlestick really made me think, "What?"  I was also very sad to read on imdb.com that this actor had died in the year 2004 (imdb.com).  After I accepted that Orbach had such amazing talents in voice acting, I felt it was even more of a shame that he died.

However, in truth, there are many actors that die and many people are not introduced to their talent until they have already left this plane of existence.  As such, I want to acknowledge that Jerry Orbach had vast voice acting skills beyond anything I imagined.  Not only was Jerry Orbach an impactful character on the series Law & Order and in the movie Dirty Dancing, but he could play silly animated characters.  He was a versatile actor and I am impressed by this talent.  

RIP Jerry Orbach.

For more information on Jerry Orbach, refer to the aforementioned Internet Movie Database Webpage (imdb.com) for Jerry Orbach: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001583/