DENNIS FRANZ HATES TV COPS!

NYPD Blue icon rejects all offers to play lawmen

EMMY - WINNING actor Dennis Franz let his career fizzle out because he was sick to death of playing cops and robbers!

The barrel-chested 78-year-old trained with Chicago’s Organic Theater Company and performed Shakespeare plays in his youth, but Hollywood saw him as a cop — and only a cop — in TV hits like Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue and even Bruce Willis’ 1990 flick Die Hard 2.