Donald Cragen

Donald "Don" Cragen is a fictional character in the police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order and its spinoff Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Dann Florek. He has currently appeared in 355 Episodes (68 episodes of Law and Order and 287 episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) Florek originally portrayed the character from 1990 to 1993 in the original Law & Order. He went on to reprise his role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from its premiere in 1999 to the present. After service as a Green Beret in Vietnam, Cragen began his career as a homicide detective in the 1960s with partner Max Greevey (George Dzundza), gradually rising up through the ranks to police captain and commanding the 27th Detective Squad. At some point, Cragen graduated from St. Raymond's University, a Catholic university known for its basketball team (SVU: "Sophomore Jinx"). As revealed in the episode "Prescription for Death", Cragen was an alcoholic for much of his early...