page_title: Steven Hill
hierarchical_section_title: Steven Hill
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Steven Hill as Dan Briggs from the television program Mission:Impossible.
context_page_description: Steven Hill was an American actor. His two better-known roles are district attorney Adam Schiff on the NBC television drama series Law & Order, whom he portrayed for 10 seasons, and Dan Briggs, the original team leader of the Impossible Missions Force on the CBS television series Mission: Impossible, whom he portrayed in the initial season of the show.
  Hill was highly esteemed by his peers, but his strict adherence to Orthodox Judaism--which he adopted after becoming an established actor--limited his career.
context_section_description: Steven Hill (born Solomon Krakovsky; Yiddish: שלמה קראַקאָווסקי‎; February 24, 1922 – August 23, 2016) was an American actor. His two better-known roles are district attorney Adam Schiff on the NBC television drama series Law & Order, whom he portrayed for 10 seasons (1990–2000), and Dan Briggs, the original team leader of the Impossible Missions Force on the CBS  television series Mission: Impossible, whom he portrayed in the initial season of the show (1966–1967).
  Hill was highly esteemed by his peers, but his strict adherence to Orthodox Judaism--which he adopted after becoming an established actor--limited his career.
caption: Hill as Dan Briggs on Mission: Impossible, c. 1966–67
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