Despite being seriously ill from prostate cancer, Jerry Orbach continued work on ‘Trial By Jury’ up until the time of his death Dec. 27.
Orbach continued to work even while getting chemotherapy every two weeks, Walon Green told TV Guide for its Feb. 27 issue.
Green said he needed to make some changes for Orbach’s final scene because the actor had weakened to the point where he could not speak in his normal voice.
“He was down to a whisper,” Green said. “So we had everybody else in the scene whisper.”
According to Green, Orbach refused to be written out of scenes.
“He’d call and be upset and want to know why I’d taken him out” of a scene, Green said. “He’d want the scene back. He was like the Energizer bunny. He wanted to keep going.”
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