Playing Sa'luk was a bit of a switch for the late Jerry Orbach, who's better known for playing a cop than a robber.

Sa'luk is one of the titular thieves in "Aladdin and the King of Thieves" (1996), the second sequel to modern Disney classic "Aladdin" (1992).

However, Orbach is more often remembered as Det. Lennie Briscoe, one of the longest-standing characters in one of the longest-running prime-time dramas in TV history, "Law & Order."

That wasn't his only famous role, though. Others may remember him as the stern father in "Dirty Dancing" (1987), or as Harry McGraw, a minor "Murder, She Wrote" character who got his own (short-lived) spinoff in the late '80s called "The Law and Harry McGraw."

"Aladdin and the King of Thieves" wasn't the first Disney movie he did, either. He put on an over-the-top French accent to voice Lumiere, the amorous candlestick in the more famous film "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), a role he reprised briefly in the ABC series "House of Mouse" in 2001.

Before all of that, he was actually a well-respected Broadway actor. That's where he got his start in 1955, and where he won a Tony Award in 1969 for his role in Neil Simon's "Promises, Promises," an adaptation of the 1960 film "The Apartment."

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