Cast also took par. Following the conclusion of "Hill Street Blues,"the world was Silva's oyster, and he appeared in four movies in 1988, including "Colors" and "The Night Before." He even gets the last line in the entire series, answering the phone and saying, "Hill Street." Discovery Company. Factory. NBC wasnt thrilled with the way things were going. They called Grant Tinker. "Rene Enriquez, 56; Played a Lieutenant In 'Hill Street Blues', https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ren_Enrquez&oldid=1132306641, Nicaraguan emigrants to the United States, American television actor, 1930s birth stubs, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 8 January 2023, at 06:59. Co-star Daniel J. Travanti reminisced that, during his time on Hill Street Blues, Enrquez was "sad, unhappy The pilot of Hill Street Blues was tested both at the ASI Theater and on cable. Conrad, who continued to work through the end of his illness, had joked to the show's writers that that's how Esterhaus should go. Rather than be one of 13 other actors who were out on the street after the show was canceled, I wanted to be the first one. Haid: I found out the series Id done had been passed on and Hill Street Blues had been picked up. You know yourself if it seemed right, but your fellow actors are also working on their part and unless it is a very special On Hill Street, Sikking played Howard Hunter, the martinet head of the stations SWAT-like squad, the Emergency Action Team. Nobody will ever see it. But (Standards) said, Youve been so successful, it could get an Emmy: And the winner is Hill Street Blues segment Moon Over Uranus. We cant have that. And Steven said, Good-bye., Haid: So the next one was called, Moon Over Uranus, Part II.. 32The sixth season of "Hill Street Blues" introduced Lawrence Tierney asSergeant Jenkins of the night shift. The company's famous logo, which featured Mimsie the kitten meowing at the end of MTM shows, was tweaked for "Hill Street Blues": Mimsie sported a police hat. La Rue on the 1980s television drama Hill Street Blues. "We had Joe and Lucy having an affair," Bochco told Playboy in 1983. be partners with "Washington". 14. I did see something on Kiel's bio that said there were no funeral services. "Steven put a reference to him in one of the shows. Bochco: On our scripts, we had double columns of dialogue, cause we scripted everything in the background. Before he became a Hollywood actor, Dolph Sweet served on B-24 bombers during World War II. I remember one day, he just stopped. Michael Warren . think most people can see this camaraderie in the finished program and remember that despite all this most, episodes were filmed in As the show progressed, he became Captain of the Polk Avenue Precinct, though his promotion ended in disaster. The death-during-sex character refers to Sgt. Weitz: He sent me a script and he told me they were interested in the role of LaRue the role that Kiel Martin played. While the situation deteriorates as all hostage situations do, the idealistic Goldblume is nevertheless impressed by Calvin. None won Emmys. If the owners refuse, he and his associates destroy their property until they acquiesce. That's one dangerously sexy redhead, indeed. This three-episode arc from the first season, beginning with "Gatorbait"and ending with"I Never Promised You a Rose, Marvin," features Dolph Sweet as Schneider, a middle-aged cop who's lost his way. One can only imagine what he could have achieved had he not been killed in such a senseless accident. Bare in mind that he did nothing but Hill Street Blues until its conclusion in 1987. "If NBC had been flush, I don't think we would have seen the light of day. 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. So if you get swept up by it in the beginning, thats one thing. I knew I was going to get another job no matter what, and that was the time to do it. Its absolutely the high point. If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. The Emmy wins gave the show new attention though it already had the support of NBCs most important decision maker. 1. Here is Hill Streets story. 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. 4. This is a section for those 'fleeting recollections' and other thoughts about HSB by those that were part of it, if you wish to add Then Bochco asked me what I thought and I suggested doing something opposite to that, light but conveying the non stop excitement Kiel Urban Mueller (July 26, 1944 December 28, 1990), known professionally as Kiel Martin, was an American actor best known for his role as Detective John "J.D." You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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. Bochco: We did stuff in that show Id never seen before anywhere. Audiences found the ending unsatisfying. His mother Eileen called me in Miami to see if I was coming to Palm Springs for the celebration and I told her it He died several days later, on March 18, 2016, at the age of 84, per The Hollywood Reporter. About Joe Coffey I had moved out to Los Angeles after my NFL career was over it was 1978 and I had developed a bit of He was capable of being tough but also calmly diplomatic. The title is never broadcast. Frank Furillo. So we used to just brutally go after Michael. In the Season 1 finale, "Jungle Madness," Capt. 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). 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. Haid: He didnt let us know for a long time. 7. 5. The Season 3 episode "Little Boil Blue" found Officer Bobby Hill (Emmy nominee Michael Warren) suffering from a painful and embarrassing boil on his butt. God bless him. Hill Street Blues was a popular police drama that ran on NBC from 1981 until 1987. the first episode. Prior to his accident Trini had just Mike Kozoll didnt particularly want to do another cop show. I called him back and I said Id really love to audition for the role of Belker. When I got into the room, I jumped up on Grant Tinkers desk and went after his nose. 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. If you allow yourself to continue to be swept up in it, there can only be disaster at the end. Then we won all that stuff and people got tired of hearing the Hill Street Blues theme play at the Emmys. Actor Kiel Martin starred in all seven seasons of "Hill Street Blues" as J.D. Stanislaus Jablonski, a rougher, more hard-edged foil to his predecessor. Kiel Martin played Detective J.D. And the collective was extraordinary. time, although of course that by no means guaranties success. I called Bochco and he and Hoblit come At the age of 84, Santos suffered a heart attack. Ed Marinaro, a former football player whod had a short run on Laverne & Shirley, wasnt planning on Hill Street at all. and displaying his wares, just as he'd done on "Hill Street Blues.". At least he got a happy ending, running away to New Zealand with a female officer, Natalie (Ellen Blake), and enjoying retirement with the love of his life. Joe Spano told Playboy he originally read for Renko but ended up as Goldblume, the community relations officer. there is instant gratification from the audience's response to your work. 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. With rare exceptions, every episode of the show took place over the course of a single day, beginning with roll call and ending with the characters played byDaniel J. Travanti and Veronica Hamel discussing the events of the day, usually in the context of pillow talk. But if you see the episodes, you see how much fun we were having. Then he knew and he said to everybody. Margaritas make me salivate. Webmaster Andy Lambert with Joe Spano,Calabasas Commons, California. My first sort of big break was on Laverne and Shirley where I did 13 episodes of that show, and then when they didnt pick up my contract, After the hostage-taker is killed by a police sniper and Goldblume is rescued, he tells his Lieutenant Howard, "The guy had ideas.". Buntz was fired from the PD and moved to Beverly Hills to become a private eye in the short-lived "Blues" spinoff "Beverly Hills Buntz," a comedy created by David Milch and Jeffrey Lewis. Bochco: For sport, Kiel would poke at Michael Conrad just to provoke him. Coffey's girlfriend is sexually assaulted. art. "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. We realized we had so many characters that the only way to service all those characters was to have multiple storylines. There was of course a lot of creative writing going on and so largely you left it up to the writers to look forward. Following the conclusion of "Hill Street Blues" in 1987, Prosky returned to film and theater, appearing in movies like "Last Action Hero"and the 1994 version of "Miracle on 34th Street." "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. would have liked the Renko part but in the end I was given Goldblume. Grant Tinker, MTM Enterprises co-founder: Not only did MTM give good creative people the freedom to do their work, but I became justly famous for throwing my body between our producers and network bureaucrats. 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 Robert Prosky died in 2008 following complications from heart surgery. Unlike his character, Enrquez was born in Nicaragua, not Colombia. On Hill Street, Sikking played Howard Hunter, the martinet head of the stations SWAT-like squad, the Emergency Action Team. We portrayed them as real people. HSB.net: Ramona Silipo said you are never happier than when you are doing theatre and especially when you are doing 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. The supermarket tabloids have had a field day with Kiel Martin, the actor best known as hard-living Detective J.D. LaRue of Hill Street Blues. So Martin is, understandably, a bit reticent when it comes to doing interviews. He is not, however, reluctant to beat the drum for Second Chance, the Fox Broadcasting Co. sitcom in which he stars. "Every time they named somebody from the show, we'd scream 'Yay!' There was a feeling of responsibility many of us felt Sadly, he passed away from cancer in 1990. was too tough for me. father were very close friends of mine. feedback. Pat Corley spent decades working in film and television. ", 21. It was great people loved these shows but it wasnt Hill Street Blues.. Although he was things like your one-man show about Buckminster Fuller? And it was everybody versus the network suits. 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 Its the most well-intentioned exploitation imaginable. ", 19. It A relatively minor character, Oberman always keeps his cool and rarely raises his voice. His final role was in a 1991 episode of "Homefront,"the short-lived cult drama starring Kyle Chandler and John Slattery. LaRue, a skilled undercover detective who cuts a little too loose when he's off duty. Well, whack my monkey, Bobby Hill! We would go on and on. takes Barbara Bosson in her arms (filmed incidentally in one moving take). Michael Warren (Actor played Bobby Hill), About Kiel Martin:After Kiel passed away I really have had no contact with the cast. So Martin is, They went berserk. Henry is not me, but I am an actor and I moulded him the way I Conrad died on November 22, 1983, during the series fourth season. Thats Hill Street.. He said, Stop it. Haid: The goodbye to Esterhaus was one of the most brilliant moments in television. Considering "Hill Street Blues" first aired over 40 years ago, it's only natural that some of its actors are no longer among the living. 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. Actors' real lives were not the only ones mined for storyline inspiration. Youre not supposed to do that. Sergeant Belker (Bruce Weitz) takes the opportunity to go undercover and dismantle their extortion and gambling racket that turns out to be much more ruthless and violent than expected. Hunter was often the shows comic relief. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. Crime Drama Mystery Furillo breaks the news of Esterhaus's death. Repertory Theatre, as indeed did had a number of the cast. About Mick Belker:I had known Steven (Bochco) since we were at Carnegie Tech together and when he got the Of course what you are doing at the moment is the most important thing in Guess I'm not the Hollywood type. They enjoy taking bubble baths together. 22. The only way to service multiple storylines was to let them spill over into subsequent episodes. Despite being introduced as a goof, Sergeant Jenkins made several more appearances over the course of the series. Kotto died seven years later, in 2021. Director Rick Wallace Writers Michael Kozoll Steven Bochco (story by) Jeffrey Lewis (teleplay by) RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. -- Kiel Martin, 46, the actor who played shady detective Johnny "J.D." LaRue on the former NBC television series "Hill Street Blues," died Dec. 28 at his desert home here. He had lung cancer. Without question the high point of my professional life. Bochco: We created a euphemistic language that suggested the raunchiness of the cop world, and it worked. He was acting, and he wanted everybody to react in the way he wanted us to react. I 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. Michael Warren was regular and I think Keil Martin, Taurean Blacque, Michael Conrad and James Sikking along with Michael Conrad was a guy who was going to do it a certain way, and our favorite thing would be to get to him. 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 really would like to talk to a few more of the cast, if you can help there? Phil Esterhaus, played by two-time Emmy winner Michael Conrad. He moved to NY from LA to be with me, and acting was only occasional, so Bob Not his usual role, he told Playboy in 1983. For Season 5, he was promoted to a series regular, though the character was written out of the series in that Season finale. Joe: (laughing): I was never a bow tie man but I think I may still have one or two hanging around at home. Dennis Franz played two different, completely unrelated characters on the show. "I can still smell drinks across the room. Abso-friggin-lutely. Co-star Daniel J. Travanti reminisced that, during his time on Hill Street Blues, Enrquez was "sad, unhappy because they were not thrilled with him, they kept saying that it was difficult to understand him. this super tough guy on the outside I visualized him as lonely and hurt on the inside and fortunately for us, the writer had the same which led him to almost being kicked off the force. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much started a whole new career as a writer, writing about 30 books for kids and young adults mystery and science fiction, mainly! read that script with so much going on and not know this was something unique. Its shows, such as the flop Supertrain, were the butt of jokes. Consequently, we have always had Lucy show a very strong feeling that she had to be better, tougher, stronger in those arenas than anybody else to maintain her credibility as a police officer. What interested me about him was his vulnerability,or at least the potential for vulnerability. times, I would often have no idea what others actors were doing. towards Steven (Bochco) and Michael Kozoll. (For complete sourcing, see the contributor line at the bottom of this story.). Theyd always shoot him first. "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." contact with. I Even the local pizza place wasnt immune: Pizza Man Furillos nickname was drawn from Pizza Man, an L.A. chain. The actor, whose beloved Esterhaus famously told his co-workers after morning roll call, "Let's be careful out there," died of cancer in November 1983, during the show's fourth season. your life and we are inclined to want to talk about that. We left nothing to chance. He was the guy selling drugs. Haid: We really did not know what was going on and how popular it was until we got all those Emmy nominations. I did meet several of them at That made it a lot more fun to play as actors, to portray that rather than try to be perfect, heroic, always getting your man, and always making the right decisions and having the perfect life.". You still have to do the work. WebKiel Martin succumbed to lung cancer on December 28. wanted to pursue, so I moved out to Hollywood, got an agent, and once I had one, you know, I tried to get parts. Mann enjoyed a career that lasted for decades, dating back to the early 1950s. indeed, an amazing guy. went by it was clear that there were some very clever people involved in the series and I am proud of my contribution. Marinaro: We were way ahead of our time. For its debut season in 1981, "Hill Street Blues" received 21 Emmy nominations and won eight of them, including the first of four consecutive Outstanding Drama Series statues. Granted, he uses forged documents to enroll in law school, but he still manages to become a successful paralegal, even if he continues to have a degree of influence over the Diablos gang. It stayed on through a combination of key corporate support, determination and a little bit of luck. It was just so different. "Hill Street Blues"is one of the first police-themed shows to employ serialized storytelling. Unusually there were no egos and HSB.net: What happened to your collection of bow ties? 8. You could not HSB.net: Interesting that you say that Joe, because I get the impression that some of your fellow cast members are During the filming of the fourth season,Conrad died ofurethral canceron November 22, 1983. 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. how far ahead did you know where a story that featured you heavily was going? 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." The result? I knew if I gave it up, Id never get it back. 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 18. I said, thats perfect. Travanti: What is the key to everything? Joe: When Nancy ( Robert Hirschfeld widow) told me of your efforts in creating the website, I felt it would be good to over to hear it and instantly we all knew we had found what we wanted, something that would exactly go with the film. probably can imagine because he was such a fine actor. In all my years in the industry I cannot remember a better cast to work with. 3. His name was Joe Stone and was stunt The writers occasionally mined the actors actual experiences for Hill Street stories: alcoholism, ethnic stereotyping, sexual politics. Good. But he had excellent timing. That's where the coroner comes in. I heard he said afterwards, theres no way I cant offer him the job. Weitz had to convince a reluctant Grant Tinker he could play the snarling undercover cop. With rising ratings came the joys and pitfalls of fame. Ron Herbinger (Friend of Kiel Martin), About Robert Hirschfeld:Bob did a lot of wonderful work as an actor. meet you and find out more about it. He got his start in a 1968 episode of "N.Y.P.D.," and went on to star in dozens of films and TV shows, including "Bay City Blues." Bochco: By the time this thing went on the air, I think we had 11 regulars. Dont bother me. And the third one came out and Steven wrote, Moon Over Uranus: The Final Chapter. Just to stick it in their ears. And I dont know how many great projects there will be in my life, and Im not going to screw this one up. You dont work with guys like Bob Butler and Gregory Hoblit and dont learn something. Another athlete-turned-actor on "Hill Street Blues": Michael Warren, a standout player on UCLA's 1967 and 1968 national champion basketball teams. There are all these actors waiting around. After the war, he became an actor and appeared in dozens of films and television shows, frequently playing lawmen. 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. I think I thought "maybe a couple of series" at the time. He was 82 years old (via Los Angeles Times). After his plane was shot down on a mission, he served two years as a Prisoner of War. Kiel's return. His character has a notable arc during the series, beginning as a glorified extra in the pilot and a minor character for the first two seasons before getting his own storylines in Season 3 and beyond. What happened to Martin in these weeks? After 'Hill Street Blues' ended, Spano appeared in series like 'Murder One,' 'The X-Files,' and 'NYPD Blue.' Her response was "If you're not going neither am I." she found out Kiel and I were buddies there. One of them was James B. Sikking, who had appeared in a number of Bochco-written shows. It took us a year or so to clean all that stuff up. stage at Berekely Rep and Magic Theater in the Bay Area. Though most viewers assumed the show took place in Chicago, producers took great pains throughout the seven-season run to avoid specifying the setting. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. 12. Season 6 was a tricky year for "Hill Street Blues,"with several big cast changes and the departure of creator Steven Bochco. Sometimes causing delay or retakes in production, much to the annoyance of the on set accountant. 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. was a different thing when you saw the finished production however! LaRue on the former television series ``Hill Street at the end of the first season. Joe: This was the first time I actually worked with him. Haid: We got kicked out of the Playboy Mansion the Bunny House. Charles Haid . In the 1970s, Hirschfeld appeared in several of the decade's most beloved movies, playing minor roles in "Escape from Alcatraz" and "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry." Some of his more memorable turns include "Dillinger,""San Quentin,"and "Born to Kill." Travanti: They said I was the first guy they called in. But take my word for it it did not go onto the set. "We were the lowest-rated drama in the history of television ever to get a second season," the Emmy-nominated Sikking says. Throughout the first four seasons, Conrad starred as Sergeant Phil Esterhaus, the wise and paternal authority figure who cared for the safety of the officers under his command. For its sophomore season, the show claimed all five nomination spots in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category, with Michael Conrad getting the win. LaRue. room, heart of gold.". She does the exact same thing. When I started, I was supposed to be doing a guest spot a four-episode arc Buff my Oscar! Joe: You would have an idea when reading the script, but in reality because we were doing different bits at different Actor Lee Weaver played a homeless flasher referred to as "Buck Naked" on "HSB," and that character, played by Weaver, showed up on "Blue," where he was prone to screaming "I'm Buck Naked!" spread from the sky. I went home (which was nearby) and within half hour I had written it. knew Robert and her very well. On December 28, 1990, he died of lung cancer at the age of 46. 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