Arthur W. Forney Filmography

Law & Order: Trial by Jury [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Bebe Neuwirth, Jerry Orbach, Amy Carlson, Kirk Acevedo, Fred Dalton Thompson

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Night

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury guest stars as Eleanor Duvall, the wealthy and politically powerful mother of suspected serial rapist Gabriel Duvall (Alfred Molina). The SVU team has built up a persuasive case against Gabriel, accusing him of preying upon illegal aliens who are in no position to testify against Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Birthright

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Lea Thompson guests in this first episode of Law & Order: Special Victim Unit's sixth season as widow Michelle Osborne, who has paid a pair of private detectives to kidnap six-year-old Patty Branson (Abigail Breslin). When caught, Michelle insists that she is Patty's real mother, and that the girl Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Charisma

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Their suspicions aroused when a 12-year-old girl named Melanie (Holliston Coleman) lands in the hospital with complications relating to her pregnancy, SVU detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Munch (Richard Belzer) end up confronting a charismatic cult leader named Eugene Hoff (Jeff Kober). At Read More

Dragnet [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Based on the classic Jack Webb cop series of the 1950s and '60s, Dragnet was the second latter-day revival of the property to boast a new cast and grittier edge (the first non-Webb revival was the obscure syndicated Dragnet seen in 1989). On this occasion, Ed O'Neill starred as Sgt. Joe Friday Read More

Law & Order: Season 13

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Elisabeth Röhm, Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: As it entered its 13th season on the air, Law & Order also entered the history books as the longest-running TV program of its genre. This, however, did not satisfy series producer Dick Wolf, who had every intention of keeping the series in production for at least another eight years, long enough Read More

Law & Order: Season 12

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Elisabeth Röhm, Sam Waterston, Dianne Wiest

Synopsis: With the departure of series regular Angie Harmon at the close of season eleven (it was explained that her character, Assistant DA Abbie Carmichael, had accepted a job with the U.S. Attorney's Federal Major Crimes Task Force), season twelve of Law & Order was ushered in with a new face in the DA's Read More

Law & Order: Season 11

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Angie Harmon, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston, Dianne Wiest

Synopsis: Season ten of Law & Order had ended on a cliffhanger of sorts, with an international trial involving the son of a prominent diplomat casting serious doubt upon the reelection of DA Adam Schiff (Steven Hill). In the first episode of the series' 11th season, it was learned that Schiff had, indeed Read More

Law & Order: Season 09

Crew: Producer

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Angie Harmon, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: With the eighth-season departure of series regular Carey Lowell as ADA Jamie Ross, Angie Harmon joined the cast of Law & Order at the beginning of its ninth season. Harmon, of course, played Ross' replacement, ADA Abbie Carmichael, who, if anything, was even more zealous in her pursuit of justice Read More

Law & Order: True North

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Stephanie Harker (Bellamy Young), stepmother of one of the victims of a double murder, is a key "player" in the subsequent prosecution. This time, the D.A.'s office faces opposition not merely from a single defense attorney but from an entire country. Crucial evidence is filed away in Canada, but Read More

Law & Order: Season 08

Crew: Producer

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Steven Hill, Carey Lowell, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: Fans of Law & Order -- and there were many, many more than there had been in previous years -- were somewhat surprised that the series entered its eighth season with no changes in the regular cast. detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) were still upholding the "Law" at the Read More

Law & Order: Double Down

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A police officer is killed and a hired driver kidnapped during a carjacking. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) manage to capture one of the perpetrators, who offers to reveal the whereabouts of the missing driver to Assistant D.A. Ross (Carey Lowell) in exchange for Read More

Law & Order: Season 07

Crew: Producer

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Steven Hill, Carey Lowell, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: Law & Order entered its seventh season on a note of uncertainty: Had Assistant DA Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy) been killed by that drunk driver at the end of season six? The answer would remain vague until it was determined by the producers that actress Hennessy had no intention of returning to Read More

Law & Order: Rage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Courtney B. Vance guest stars as Benjamin "Bud" Greer, a highly successful African-American Wall Street broker. The detectives and the D.A.'s office swoop down on Greer when he is suspected of murdering his white mentor. The Defense argues that Greer should be acquitted, using the controversial Read More

Law & Order: Angel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode seems to have had its roots in the Susan Smith infanticide case. It all begins when young mother Leah Coleman (Elizabeth Hanly Rice) claims that her baby was kidnapped while she was in a confessional. Detective Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) dutifully helps the woman retrace the events Read More

Law & Order: Purple Heart

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A cab driver is murdered, putting the detectives on a long and circuitous trail of clues. Along the way, such elements as a loan shark, a missing plumber, and a forged check determine the proceedings. Ultimately, the investigation focuses on the dead man's widow, Denise Johnson (Lisa Gay Hamilton) Read More

Law & Order: Season 06

Crew: Producer

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Law & Order launched its sixth season with the addition of yet another new character, Detective Rey Curtis, played by Benjamin Bratt. As the replacement for Mike Logan (Chris Noth), previous partner of Detective Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), Curtis exuded enough youthful idealism and Read More

Law & Order: Sanctuary

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A 12-year-old Harlem youth is killed in a hit-and-run. The driver, an elderly Jewish man named Joshua Berger (Michael Constantine), is not indicted. This is all it takes for outspoken (and blatantly bigoted) black activist Reverend Ott (Tony Todd) to foment racial tensions that explode in Read More

Law & Order: Breeder

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A private adoption racket is exposed when a woman claims that she fainted in a taxi and awoke to find baby missing. In the course of their investigation, detective Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) encounter all manner of human anguish and desperation. Particularly compelling are Debra Read More

Law & Order: Season 05

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: The biggest news surrounding Law & Order's fifth season was the acrimonious exit of series regular Michael Moriarty, who, since the program's inception, had upheld the "Order" part of the program as Executive Assistant DA Ben Stone. According to the script, Stone quit the DA's office in disgust Read More

Law & Order: Conduct Unbecoming

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Logan (Chris Noth) and Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) run up against a "wall of brass" when they investigate the death of a female Navy officer, who was last seen alive at a wild party. The detectives' only witness is Ensign Evan Walters (Michael Dolan), who claims that he can remember nothing of the Read More

Law & Order: Black Tie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The authorities receive an anonymous tip that a wealthy man has been murdered by his wife (Caroline Lagerfelt). But the dead man's doctor insists that his patient died of heart failure, and is successful in blocking a police autopsy. Can there be a coverup and conspiracy afoot? The episode's Read More

Law & Order: Season 04

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jill Hennessy, Steven Hill, S. Epatha Merkerson, Michael Moriarty, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: It can be said with some assurance that during its fourth season on the air, Law & Order finally came into its own and assumed the form and texture for which it became famous. For one thing, the producers finally responded to audience demand that there be more of a "female presence" on the series. Read More

Law & Order: Season 03

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Brooks, Dann Florek, Steven Hill, Michael Moriarty, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Another major casting change occurred during the third season of Law & Order, although not until the series had offered eight episodes. In "Prince of Darkness," an undercover police operation goes tragically awry, and Detective Phil Ceretta (Paul Sorvino) ends up seriously wounded. Though Ceretta Read More

Law & Order: Season 02

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Brooks, Dann Florek, Steven Hill, Michael Moriarty, Chris Noth, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Not yet a hit, though certainly sustaining decent ratings, Law & Order entered its second season with the first of its many cast changes -- and a spectacular one it was indeed, with Detective Max Greevey being shot down and killed in front of his own house. In truth, George Dzundza, who played Read More

Law & Order: Season 01

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Brooks, George Dzundza, Dann Florek, Steven Hill, Michael Moriarty, Chris Noth

Synopsis: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories." With this pithy but all-inclusive prologue, thus began each hour-long Read More