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Due to his popularity with fans, he returned in 1985 as Lieutenant Norm Buntz, remaining until the show's end in 1987. Franz first played the role of Detective Sal Benedetto, a corrupt cop in the 1983 season, who later kills himself.

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Other major roles were on the television series Hill Street Blues in which he played two characters over the run of that show. He has also guest starred in shows such as The A-Team. Although he has in the past performed Shakespeare, his appearance led to his being typecast early in his career as a police officer (By Franz's own count, the character of Andy Sipowicz was his 28th role as a police officer). Franz began his acting career at Chicago's Organic Theater Company. He served eleven months with the 82nd Airborne Division in Vietnam. After graduating from college, Franz was drafted into the United States Army. Franz is a graduate of Proviso East High School (in Maywood), Wilbur Wright College and Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has two older sisters, Heidi (born 1935) and Marlene (born 1938). He has told Access Hollywood he would be interested in returning to acting if given the right opportunity.ĭennis Franz Schlachta is an American actor best known for his role as a Hard-boiled New York City Police Department Detective Andy Sipowicz in the American Broadcasting Company television series New York City Police Department Blue.įranz was born in Maywood, Illinois, the son of German immigrants Eleanor, a postal worker, and Franz Schlachta, who was a baker and postal worker He starred as Earl, the abusive husband, in the Dixie Chicks' music video 'Goodbye Earl', as airport police captain Carmine Lorenzo in the 1990 film Die Hard 2 and as Nathaniel Messinger in the 1998 film, City of Angels.įranz has stayed out of the acting spotlight since 2005 to focus on his private life. The concept was that Franz 'refused' to do the commercials, saying they were not something he did. On May 11, 2001, Franz was a contestant on a celebrity edition of the hit television game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, winning $US250,000 for his charity.įranz also was a commercial spokesman for Nextel in the early 2000s. In 1994 Franz made a cameo appearance as himself in The Simpsons episode 'Homer Badman' - when Homer is accused of sexually harassing a babysitter, the case becomes tabloid fodder, generating an exploitative television movie, Homer South.: Portrait of an Ass-Grabber, in which Franz portrays Homer. The character of Sipowicz was ranked #23 on Bravo's 100 Greatest television Characters list.

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He appeared in three of Altman's films from this period, and five of De Palma's, most prominently as a low budget movie director in Body Double (1984). He also starred in the short-lived Beverly Hills Buntz as the same character.ĭuring the late 1970s and early 1980s, Franz worked regularly with directors Brian De Palma and Robert Altman. Other major roles were on the television series Hill Street Blues in which he played two characters over the run of that show.įranz first played the role of Detective Sal Benedetto, a corrupt cop in the 1983 season, who later kills himself.

(By Franz's own count, the character of Andy Sipowicz was his 28th role as a police officer). Although he has in the past performed Shakespeare, his appearance led to his being typecast early in his career as a police officer He served eleven months with the 82nd Airborne Division in Vietnam.įranz began his acting career at Chicago's Organic Theater Company.