Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop who made a second career in movies and TV, has died in Arizona, reports Deadline Hollywood . He was 69.
Farina served for 18 years with the Chicago Police Department , before working his way into movies. He began as a police consultant for Michael Mann, who later used him as a mobster in NBC's Miami Vice, a Chicago police detective in NBC's Crime Story, and as an FBI agent in Manhunter (1986).