Steven Hill.
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Steven Hill, best known for playing District Attorney Adam Schiff on Law & Order, died Tuesday morning at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He was 94.

The cause of death has not been revealed, and his wife, Rachel, said he suffered from several ailments. Born Solomon Krakovsky in Seattle to Russian immigrant parents, he became interested in acting at age 6 after landing a role in a production of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. In the 1940s, he took classes at the Actors Studio in New York with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and soon landed a part in a Broadway play. Over the course of his career, he appeared in more than two dozens movies, and in 1966, starred in Mission: Impossible as undercover team leader Daniel Briggs. Hill left the show after one season because he was an Orthodox Jew, and the shooting scheduled interfered with his observation of the Sabbath, The Associated Press reports.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.