I was able to get a DVD with all the 3rd season episodes of “Barney Miller” on it. I had forgotten just how good that show was. Nothing close to it now.
Why did all the literate TV writers have to die off 20 or so years ago?
I had a crush on him as a kid. Now I feel old. 
RIP, Steve.
I must know. Who are the other two?
You can’t seriously think that Abe Vigoda is going to die before everybody else does.
I have to admit I’ve picked up some personality traits based on Dietrich.
This is the first I’m hearing of this; very sad.
mmm
And he’s going to dance on everybody else’s graves. 
So long, Steve. R.I.P.
I was going to be coy in answering this, then I remembered that I’ve already on on record here with it.
Fine choices. I’d add a dash of Frank Furillo, too, but only if the Counselor is part of the deal…
From the final episode:
Barney: “The building has been sold to a dance studio.”
Dietrich: “Well, that’s taps for us.”
According to this article, from the New York Times, he was actually 74.
I loved him in Barney Miller, and was always glad to see him whenever he turned up in something else.
Count me in as someone who had a crush on him. What a sexy voice he had!
Too bad.
Damn.
When they had the guy who claimed to be a time traveller, who didn’t encounter Dietrich until the end of the show. “Wait! You’re Arthur Dietrich! Of course, the (whatever) precinct.”
And after they take the guy away, Dietrich just turns to the group and says “I would never have been able to do it without you.” What delivery he had.
[Dietrich as Cary Grant]Beverly…is busy.[/Dietrich as Cary Grant]
Can’t access the NYT without an account.
According to the Dead people Server, he was born in 1945, which would make him closer to 65.
From the end of the article:
Really? I don’t have an account.
Nah, nah; it was “Hey – I couldn’t’ve done it without youse.” The joke being that neither he, nor anybody else there, had any idea what he was supposed to be famous for.
I remember an episode where Landsberg did a dead-on impersonation of Gregory Peck.
[Dietrich as Gregory Peck]Beverly…is busy.[/Dietrich as Gregory Peck]
Dietrich was at Fish’s home and Beverly, Fish’s daughter, didn’t want to see someone who came to the door.
My earlier quote mis-attributed his impersonation to Cary Grant. Strange no one caught that. We should be fighting ignorance a little harder.
Whoopsie. I only did a Ctrl+F search for “Peck,” who was one of my mother’s other crushes. She was in heaven on that day.