The prolific actor who had recurring roles on television shows including “L.A. Law” and “Picket Fences” before capping his career with a Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway play “Heisenberg.”

On the big screen, he played one of the astonished cops eying Sharon Stone in the interrogation scene in ‘Basic Instinct.’

Denis Arndt, the Tony Award-nominated actor whose many onscreen roles included starring in "S.W.A.T." and famously interrogating Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct," has died. He was 86.Arndt died "peacefully in his bed" at his longtime cabin home in Ashland,