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Al Giardello
Alphonse Michael Giardello Sr. (called "Gee" by the other detectives) is a fictional character from the television drama Homicide: Life on the Street. The character was played by Yaphet Kotto. He is based on Baltimore Police Department Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario, a member of the BPD homicide unit described in David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets which served as the inspiration for the series as a whole. The character also appeared in the Law & Order episode "Baby, It's You".
Al Giardello – nicknamed "Gee" after the only thing he could say when called to his first murder scene as a rookie as well as a reference to his last name – is the commander of the homicide unit shift followed by the series. Holding the rank of lieutenant, he encounters a number of opportunities for promotion during the series, only to have his hopes dashed by the political maneuvering of his superiors. At the end of the seventh season, Giardello is offered a promotion to Captain but turns it down, since the position would require him to transfer out of the homicide unit.
He is introduced early in the series as a widower of mixed Sicilian American and African American heritage. He originates from Southeast Baltimore, where his father was from Baltimore's Little Italy and his mother was from a neighboring housing project known as the Perkins Homes. He played three sports and was Prom King when he was in high school. He takes a degree of pride in both heritages, speaking near fluent Italian and fraternizing with many of the BPD's African American and Italian American officers alike. According to the episodes "Black and Blue" and "Narcissus", he began his career in the department in 1968.
Gee enjoys cooking and is an excellent Hearts player, as revealed in the episode "All Through the House". As Bayliss tries (and fails) to hustle him out of some easy cash during a slow night, he learns from Munch that Gee put one of his three children through college by playing Hearts for money.
In the Season 6 episode "Lies and Other Truths", it is revealed that Gee has kept in touch with a former KGB agent who apparently held him captive at some earlier point in his life. The agent tried to brainwash Gee for four months, without success, and Gee eventually persuaded him to defect to the West with the help of a $300,000 bribe.
A physically imposing, highly articulate man, Giardello's cultural attitude stands in sharp contrast to both his Baltimore upbringing and many other officers in the Department. Despite his authoritative nature, Gee is essentially a humorous, good-natured man who seems to see himself as a mentor and father figure to his detectives, who are tremendously loyal to him. He also has a particular fondness for children, manifesting itself in marked outrage whenever children are murdered, an attribute shared by many other detectives.
Gee is introduced as a widower whose wife has been dead for at least seven years prior to the first season. According to the Season 7 premiere "La Famiglia", he has three children: two daughters, Teresa and Charisse, and a son, Michael (whom Charisse refers to as Al Jr.). He has one grandchild, Al, who was born to Charisse in January 1999. He also expresses missing his late wife in several episodes of the first four seasons as well as his devoted, if on occasion strained, relationship with his children. In Season 4, Gee delays his flight out of Baltimore for a daughter's wedding for so long that by the time he does get to BWI, the weather has made it impossible for him to fly to the event in San Francisco, and he is left devastated.
In "La Famiglia," Mike - an FBI agent - comes to Baltimore from Arizona to assist in the investigation of three murders in Little Italy. One of the victims is Gee's cousin Mario, whom Mike remembers fondly from his childhood and who was killed as a result of his decision to testify against a union boss 25 years earlier. Mike ultimately resigns from the FBI and joins the Baltimore Police Department in order to be closer to his father. In the series finale "Forgive Us Our Trespasses," Teresa and Mike attend Gee's promotion ceremony. His paternal grandmother, Rosina Giardello (whom he called "Nonna"), was still alive at the time of his death in 2000.
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Al Giardello
Alphonse Michael Giardello Sr. (called "Gee" by the other detectives) is a fictional character from the television drama Homicide: Life on the Street. The character was played by Yaphet Kotto. He is based on Baltimore Police Department Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario, a member of the BPD homicide unit described in David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets which served as the inspiration for the series as a whole. The character also appeared in the Law & Order episode "Baby, It's You".
Al Giardello – nicknamed "Gee" after the only thing he could say when called to his first murder scene as a rookie as well as a reference to his last name – is the commander of the homicide unit shift followed by the series. Holding the rank of lieutenant, he encounters a number of opportunities for promotion during the series, only to have his hopes dashed by the political maneuvering of his superiors. At the end of the seventh season, Giardello is offered a promotion to Captain but turns it down, since the position would require him to transfer out of the homicide unit.
He is introduced early in the series as a widower of mixed Sicilian American and African American heritage. He originates from Southeast Baltimore, where his father was from Baltimore's Little Italy and his mother was from a neighboring housing project known as the Perkins Homes. He played three sports and was Prom King when he was in high school. He takes a degree of pride in both heritages, speaking near fluent Italian and fraternizing with many of the BPD's African American and Italian American officers alike. According to the episodes "Black and Blue" and "Narcissus", he began his career in the department in 1968.
Gee enjoys cooking and is an excellent Hearts player, as revealed in the episode "All Through the House". As Bayliss tries (and fails) to hustle him out of some easy cash during a slow night, he learns from Munch that Gee put one of his three children through college by playing Hearts for money.
In the Season 6 episode "Lies and Other Truths", it is revealed that Gee has kept in touch with a former KGB agent who apparently held him captive at some earlier point in his life. The agent tried to brainwash Gee for four months, without success, and Gee eventually persuaded him to defect to the West with the help of a $300,000 bribe.
A physically imposing, highly articulate man, Giardello's cultural attitude stands in sharp contrast to both his Baltimore upbringing and many other officers in the Department. Despite his authoritative nature, Gee is essentially a humorous, good-natured man who seems to see himself as a mentor and father figure to his detectives, who are tremendously loyal to him. He also has a particular fondness for children, manifesting itself in marked outrage whenever children are murdered, an attribute shared by many other detectives.
Gee is introduced as a widower whose wife has been dead for at least seven years prior to the first season. According to the Season 7 premiere "La Famiglia", he has three children: two daughters, Teresa and Charisse, and a son, Michael (whom Charisse refers to as Al Jr.). He has one grandchild, Al, who was born to Charisse in January 1999. He also expresses missing his late wife in several episodes of the first four seasons as well as his devoted, if on occasion strained, relationship with his children. In Season 4, Gee delays his flight out of Baltimore for a daughter's wedding for so long that by the time he does get to BWI, the weather has made it impossible for him to fly to the event in San Francisco, and he is left devastated.
In "La Famiglia," Mike - an FBI agent - comes to Baltimore from Arizona to assist in the investigation of three murders in Little Italy. One of the victims is Gee's cousin Mario, whom Mike remembers fondly from his childhood and who was killed as a result of his decision to testify against a union boss 25 years earlier. Mike ultimately resigns from the FBI and joins the Baltimore Police Department in order to be closer to his father. In the series finale "Forgive Us Our Trespasses," Teresa and Mike attend Gee's promotion ceremony. His paternal grandmother, Rosina Giardello (whom he called "Nonna"), was still alive at the time of his death in 2000.