OBITUARY

Steve Landesberg dies; comic actor played intellectual detective on sitcom ‘Barney Miller’

The New York native joined the cast in 1976 as Dietrich, whom a Times reviewer once referred to as ‘infuriatingly cerebral.’

By Keith Thursby

Los Angeles Times

December 21, 2010

Steve Landesberg, a comic actor who played the intellectual Det. Arthur Dietrich in the long-running ABC sitcom “Barney Miller,” has died. He was believed to be 74.

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