Hill Street Blues

Michael Conrad was an American television actor. Conrad had a long acting career in television from the 1950s to the 1980s. Conrad had a memorable role in the 1974 film, The Longest Yard, playing Nate Scarboro, a retired NFL tight end who was also an assistant coach for the Mean Machine, the team... of prisoners put together by Burt Reynolds' character Paul Crewe to play the team of guards. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of veteran cop Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues, in which he ended the introductory roll call to each week's show with "Let's be careful out there". Conrad won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in Hill Street Blues in 1981 and 1982. Conrad died from urethral cancer in November 1983 during the fourth season of Hill Street Blues. The show's writers terminated the role of Phil Esterhaus to coincide with his death, and the episode in which the death of Sergeant Esterhaus was broadcast resulted in one of the most emotionally dramatic television moments, in no doubt largely attributable to Conrad's death.
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Danielo Giovanni "Daniel J." Travanti is an American actor best known for his starring role as Captain Frank Furillo in the 1980s television drama Hill Street Blues. Travanti, one of five children, was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Italian immigrant parents. His father was a factory worker.... During his teen years, Travanti was an athlete and good student, earning scholarships to Harvard University, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College, though he eventually attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1957, before his senior year, he attended the youth government and leadership program called Badger Boys State as a representative chosen from his high school. In 1964, Travanti guest-starred with Paul Richards and Roy Thinnes in the episode "Murder by Scandal" of CBS's drama about newspapers, The Reporter, with Harry Guardino in the title role of journalist Danny Taylor. He also appeared, in a Season 6 episode of Mission: Impossible called "Image". In 1972 he played a fugitive in The Devil's Playground episode of Cannon with his future co-star James B.
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Bruce Peter Weitz is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in the 1980s TV series Hill Street Blues for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1984. Weitz was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of Sybil... Weitz Rubel, a homemaker, and Alvin Weitz, who owned a liquor store. He is Jewish. Weitz appeared in the 1998 hit film Deep Impact and also appeared in the films Half Past Dead and El Cortez . Some of his many guest appearances on television include NYPD Blue, Quincy, Midnight Caller, Sisters, Superman: The Animated Series as Bruno Mannheim, JAG, The X-Files, The West Wing, and Highlander: The Series. He portrayed Anthony Zacchara on General Hospital from October to November 2007; from January 2008 to March 2009; on July 10, 2009; on August 13, 2009; and on September 3, 2009 to present. He also was in an episode of Matlock starring Andy Griffith, where he played a cop who was an old friend of Matlock. Weitz married actress Cecilia Hart in 1971. They were divorced in 1982, shortly after which she married actor James Earl Jones.
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Barbara Babcock is an American character actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Grace Gardner on Hill Street Blues for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress—Drama Series in 1981 and her role as Dorothy Jennings on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman for which she was... nominated for an Emmy Award in 1993. Although she was born in the United States, she spent a large part of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan, because her father Conrad Stanton Babcock, Jr. was a general in the United States Army. She learned to speak Japanese before English. She attended Miss Porter's School and later Wellesley College, where she was a classmate of Ali McGraw. Babcock has appeared in several episodes of television series between 1956 and 1967. She appeared in Star Trek in 1966. In 1968 she made her debut on the big screen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer western movie Day of the Evil Gun. After followed by roles in films Heaven with a Gun co-starring Glenn Ford, Bang the Drum Slowly, Chosen Survivors, The Black Marble, Back Roads and The Lords of Discipline. From 1978 to 1981 she played the role as Liz Craig on the CBS soap opera Dallas.
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