{{short description|American police officer and actor}} {{Infobox police officer |name = Gary D'Addario |image = |caption = |birth_date = |badge_number = |birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, United States |nickname = |department = Baltimore Police Department |service = United States |service_years = 1967 - 2004 |rank = |awards = |relatives = |other_work = Television actor, technical advisor }}
'''Gary D'Addario''' is an American retired police commander, television technical advisor and actor from Baltimore, Maryland.
D'Addario joined the Baltimore police department in 1967.<ref name="A Shot in the Dark">{{Cite web|url=http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=8535|title=A Shot in the Dark|access-date=2008-03-12|publisher=Baltimore City Paper|year=2004|author=Frank Klein|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007061243/http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=8535|archive-date=2008-10-07}}</ref> An Italian-American, D'Addario advanced in the department easily during the days of the BPD's brief "Holy Roman Empire", the time period from 1981–1984 under former Commissioner Frank Battaglia where Italian-American police officers of Baltimore briefly controlled the previously Irish-American dominated department.<ref>{{cite book |last=Simon |first=David |title=Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets |orig-year=1991 |edition=4th |year=2006 |publisher=Owl Books |isbn=0-8050-8075-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/homicideyearonki00simo_1/page/39 39] |chapter=One |quote=D'Addario is one of the last survivors of the Italian caliphate that briefly ruled the department after a long Irish dynasty.....But the Holy Roman Empire lasted less than four years. }}</ref> D'Addario served as a shift lieutenant in the Baltimore Police Department homicide unit for 10 years during his career.<ref name="A Shot in the Dark"/><ref name="AOL David Simon Q&A"/> He was a captain in 1998<ref name="98 NYT">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E4DB123BF93AA15750C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2|title= Police Tactics Chipping Away at Suspects' Rights|access-date=2008-03-12|work=The New York Times|author=Jan Hoffman | date=1998-03-29}}</ref> and was promoted to major in 2003.<ref name="The Wire season 2 crew">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/crew/season_2.shtml|title=''The Wire'' season 2 crew|access-date=2007-10-14|publisher=HBO|year=2007|archive-date=2007-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012034646/http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/crew/season_2.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> He retired at the rank of major in 2004,<ref name="A Shot in the Dark"/><ref name="AOL David Simon Q&A"/> when the 37-year veteran of the department was forced to retire by new Commissioner Kevin P. Clark as part of Clark's unpopular turnover of veteran command staff.<ref>''Source: Baltimore Sun, July 16, 2003.''</ref>
It was in his capacity as a homicide shift lieutenant that he became one of the subjects of David Simon's non-fiction book about the homicide unit, ''Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets''.<ref name="HOM">{{cite book | last = Simon | first = David | orig-year = 1991 | year = 2006 | title = Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets | publisher = Owl Books | location = New York }}</ref> Simon followed D'Addario's shift within the unit for a year and wrote an account of their activity.<ref name="AOL David Simon Q&A">{{Cite web|url=http://members.aol.com/TheWireHBO/exclusive4-6.html|title=3rd Exclusive David Simon Q&A|access-date=2008-03-12|publisher=AOL The Wire group|year=1998|author=Jim King}}</ref>
The book was adapted into an NBC television series called ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' and D'Addario inspired the character Al Giardello on that series.<ref name="98 NYT"/><ref name="HOM" /> D'Addario had a recurring role on ''Homicide'' as Lt. Jasper, head of the Quick Response Team. He also worked as a technical advisor on ''Homicide'' primarily as a source on the Baltimore Police Department and a liaison between the production and the department.<ref name="98 NYT"/> Simon later moved from writing books to television and became a writer and producer for the series. D'Addario was a technical advisor for Simon's next project, the Emmy Award-winning miniseries ''The Corner'', and had a small role as a desk sergeant.<ref name="AOL David Simon Q&A"/>
D'Addario served as a technical advisor on the first two seasons of Peabody Award-winning ''The Wire''.<ref name="AOL David Simon Q&A"/><ref name="The Wire season 2 crew"/><ref name="The Wire season 1 crew">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/crew/season_1.shtml|title=''The Wire'' season 1 crew|access-date=2007-10-14|publisher=HBO|year=2007}}</ref> ''The Wire'' was also created by Simon. D'Addario had a recurring role as the gambling-addicted grand jury prosecutor Gary DiPasquale in ''The Wire''.<ref name="DiPasquale profile">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/characters/gary_dipasquale.shtml|title=Character profile - Grand Jury Prosecutor Gary DiPasquale|access-date=2008-02-12|publisher=HBO|year=2008}}</ref> Simon has speculated that D'Addario's first appearance on the series in the season 2 episode "Undertow"<ref name = "The Wire E18">{{cite episode | title = Undertow | episode-link = Undertow (The Wire episode) | series = The Wire | series-link = The Wire (TV series) | credits = David Simon, Ed Burns | network = HBO | airdate = 2003-06-29 | season = 2 | number = 5}}</ref><ref name = "The Wire EG18">{{cite web| year = 2004| title = ''The Wire'' episode guide - episode 18 Undertow| publisher = HBO| access-date = 2006-08-24| url = http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season2/episode18.shtml}}</ref> coincided with his forced retirement.<ref name="AOL David Simon Q&A"/> Simon wrote to Mayor Martin O'Malley to ask if there was any link and seeking confirmation that other city employees did not risk losing their jobs by appearing on the series and received no response.<ref name="AOL David Simon Q&A"/> D'Addario stood down as technical advisor because he was no longer part of the police department<ref name="AOL David Simon Q&A"/> but continued to appear on the show until its conclusion.<ref name = "E45">{{cite episode|title = Corner Boys|episode-link = Corner Boys|series = The Wire|series-link = The Wire (TV series)|credits = Agnieszka Holand, Richard Price (teleplay), Ed Burns & Richard Price (story)|network = HBO|airdate = 2004-11-05|season = 4|number = 08}}</ref><ref name = "EG45">{{cite web| year = 2006| title = Episode guide - episode 45 Corner Boys| publisher = HBO| access-date = 2006-11-01| url = http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season4/episode08.shtml| archive-date = 2019-09-25| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190925083307/https://www.hbo.com/the-wire| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name = "E50">{{cite episode | title = Final Grades | episode-link = Final Grades (The Wire episode) | series = The Wire | series-link = The Wire (TV series) | credits = Ernest Dickerson, David Simon (story and teleplay), Ed Burns (story) | network = HBO | airdate = 2004-12-10 | season = 4 | number = 13}}</ref><ref name = "EG50">{{cite web| year = 2006| title = ''The Wire'' episode guide - episode 50 Final Grades| publisher = HBO| access-date = 2007-10-17| url = http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season4/episode50.shtml| archive-date = 2007-10-12| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071012232010/http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season4/episode50.shtml| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name = "E53">{{cite episode|title = Not for Attribution|episode-link = Not for Attribution|series = The Wire|series-link = The Wire (TV series)|credits = Scott and Joy Kecken, Chris Collins (story and teleplay), David Simon (story)|network = HBO|airdate = 2008-01-20|season = 5|number = 3}}</ref><ref name="EG53">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season5/episode53.shtml|title=''The Wire'' episode guide - episode 53 Not for Attribution|access-date=2008-01-22|publisher=HBO|year=2008}}</ref><ref name = "E60">{{cite episode | title = -30- | episode-link = -30- (The Wire episode) | series = The Wire | series-link = The Wire (TV series) | credits = Clark Johnson, David Simon (story and teleplay), Ed Burns (story) | network = HBO | airdate = 2008-03-09 | season = 5 | number = 10}}</ref><ref name="EG60">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season5/episode60.shtml|title=''The Wire'' episode guide - episode 60 –30–|access-date=2008-03-10|publisher=HBO|year=2008}}</ref>
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