

Olympian James Brendan Connolly in the NBC miniseries The First Olympics: Athens, 1896.
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He made a two-episode appearance on the television series Crime Story which ran from 1986 to 1988 on NBC. On television, he had a recurring role as Tommy Mann, the leader of the street gang The Shamrocks on Hill Street Blues in the early 1980s. Caruso credits his role as Daniels, “the cadet who nearly drowned,” in An Officer and a Gentleman as what got him noticed.

Caruso then spent most of the next decade in film supporting roles, appearing in such films as First Blood, An Officer and a Gentleman, Blue City, Thief of Hearts and China Girl. His first film appearance was in the 1980 film Getting Wasted as Danny.
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These guys taught me how to be what I call a stand up kind of guy. The ethics of certain actors certainly had a power over me. It was in this job he found his role models in Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Edward G Robinson. He said that he and his coworkers would act out scenes from some of these movies while they were at the back of the theater. He later attended Archbishop Molloy High School in nearby Briarwood, graduating in 1974.Ĭaruso worked as a cinema usher, where he would see up to eighty movies a week. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Caruso attended Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic School in Forest Hills. He is of Irish and Italian (Sicilian) descent. His father left when he was two years of age, forcing him to “end up fathering myself”, as he put it. He also appeared in movies such as First Blood, Kiss of Death, Jade and Proof of Life Early lifeĬaruso was born in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, New York, New York, the son of Joan, a librarian, and Charles Caruso, a magazine and newspaper editor.

His most prominent roles are his portrayals of Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the TV series CSI: Miami and as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue. In 1997, “True Confessions” ( Season 1, Episode 4), written by Art Monterastelli and directed by Charles Haid, was ranked #36 on TV Guide‘s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2009, TV Guide ranked “ Hearts and Souls” ( Season 6, Episode 5), Jimmy Smits‘ final episode written by Steven Bochco, David Milch, Bill Clark, and Nicholas Wootton and directed by Paris Barclay, #30 on TV Guide‘s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.ĭavid Stephen Caruso (born January 7, 1956) is an American actor and producer.
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NYPD Blue was met with critical acclaim, praised for its grittiness and realistic portrayal of the cast’s personal and professional lives, though the show garnered controversy for its depiction of nudity and alcoholism. It remains ABC’s longest-running primetime one-hour drama series. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC network, debuted on September 21, 1993‚ and aired its final episode on March 1, 2005. The show was created by Steven Bochco and David Milch and was inspired by Milch’s relationship with Bill Clark, a former member of the New York City Police Department who eventually became one of the show’s producers. Each episode typically intertwined several plots involving an ensemble cast. NYPD Blue is an American television police procedural set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct of Manhattan.
