''I don`t mind playing a cop as long as I don`t have to wear a uniform,'' he said. His latest film role is as a plainclothes detective in ''Mace,'' which so far has been released only in Europe. ''Falcon Crest,'' but he still finds himself being offered-and accepting-parts as a police officer.
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In his two years off the ''Hill Street'' beat, Marinaro has played a few different kinds of roles: He was a doctor in the 1987 TV movie ''Sharing Richard'' and had a brief role as a mercenary in the CBS nighttime soap You want to do a different character, stretch a little.''
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''But I think it`s unnatural to ask an actor to do a series for five years. ''The first four years were great,'' said the former Cornell University running back.
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Marinaro, for example, left the series after the penultimate season because he wanted more professional freedom and greater acting challenges. Other ''Hill Street Blues'' graduates have, however. I`ve never seen typecasting as a problem.''
''I have that professional, intelligent look in my eye that hires me as doctors, lawyers, professional people. ''I haven`t felt confined by my role on `Hill Street` at all,'' said Sikking, who has just been cast as the lover in ''Leave Her to Heaven,'' an NBC movie remake of the 1945 Gene Tierney-Cornel Wilde romantic drama that will air next season. 11) Veronica Hamel (Furillo`s public-defender companion Joyce Davenport) as the love interest in Alan Alda`s latest feature film, ''A New Life,'' and Bruce Weitz (the gruff undercover specialist Mick Belker), who recently took over the role of Johnny, the romantic lead in the off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally`s ''Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.'' Furillo) as the distraught son in the American Playhouse production of Robert Anderson`s autobiographical drama ''I Never Sang for My Father'' (at 9 p.m. Some other ''Hill Street Blues'' alumni who have ventured out alone are working, though not in a weekly TV series.įor instance, there`s Daniel Travanti (the level-headed and reserved Capt. ''The people who weren`t perceived as being such great actors may have more trouble,'' Kressel said. In an ensemble, no one actor is on-screen for long, and while this may protect less- experienced actors, it does not prepare them for the more conventional world of television, in which two or three actors are expected to carry a show. Yet being part of an ensemble may also have its drawbacks. ''The great thing about `Hill Street Blues` was that no one character was more important than any other,'' said James B. As surely as large numbers of viewers had trouble seeing Jackie Gleason, say, as anyone other than Ralph Kramden, so, too, may they forever link Ed Marinaro with macho-but- sweet officer Joe Coffey. 9 in Chicago, which will air the drama in prime time Monday through Friday beginning in the fall), those characterizations are never far from the audience`s mind. And thanks to syndication (''Hill Street Blues'' has been sold to 50 stations across the country, including WGN-Ch.