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Richard Jay Belzer (August 4, 1944 – February 19, 2023) was an American actor, comedian, and author. He was best known for his role as BPD Detective, NYPD Detective/sergeant and investigator
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, whom he portrayed for 23 years in the
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series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'', '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' and several guest appearances on other series.


Early life and education

Belzer was born in
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, on August 4, 1944, to a Jewish family. He described his mother as frequently physically abusive, and he declared that his comedy career began when trying to make her laugh to distract her from abusing him and his brother. After graduating from Fairfield Warde High School, Belzer worked as a reporter for the '' Bridgeport Post''. Belzer attended
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, which was then known as Dean Junior College, in
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, but was expelled.


Career


Stand-up

After his first divorce, Belzer relocated to New York City, moved in with singer Shelley Ackerman, and began working as a stand-up comic at Pips,
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, and Catch a Rising Star. He participated in the Channel One comedy group that satirized television and became the basis for the cult movie '' The Groove Tube,'' in which Belzer played the co-star of the ''ersatz'' TV show ''The Dealers''. Belzer was the audience warm-up comedian for ''
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'' and made three guest appearances on the show between 1975 and 1980. He also opened for musician
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during his tour supporting the release of his album '' Excitable Boy''.


Film

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Belzer became an occasional film actor. A short skit of a younger Belzer can be found on ''
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'' in a season 9 episode in 1978 when two young men attempt a picnic and boat ride, only to be thwarted by a dog who eats their food. He is noted for minor roles in '' Fame'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Scarface'', ''
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'', and '' Fletch Lives''. He appeared in the
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s for the Mike + The Mechanics song " Taken In", the
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song "Le Bel Age", and the
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song "Can't Cry Anymore" all of which were made by Flattery Yukich Inc (Producer Paul Flattery and Director Jim Yukich). He appeared in '' A Very Brady Sequel'' as an
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detective.


Radio

In addition to his film career, Belzer was a featured player on the '' National Lampoon Radio Hour'' with co-stars
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,
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, Gilda Radner, and Harold Ramis, a half-hour comedy program aired on 600 plus American radio stations from 1973 to 1975. Several of his sketches were released on National Lampoon albums, drawn from the ''Radio Hour'', including several bits in which he portrayed a pithy call-in talk show host named "Dick Ballantine". In the late 1970s, he co-hosted ''Brink & Belzer'' on
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radio (660 AM) in New York City. He was a frequent guest on ''
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''. Following the departure of
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from Air America Radio, Belzer guest-hosted the afternoon program on the network. Belzer was a regular guest on the right-wing radio show of
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and appeared on the episode covering the
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, in which he referred to the bombing as a
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event.


Television

In the 1980s, Belzer was a regular on
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's short-lived show '' Thicke of the Night''. He also briefly starred in ''The Richard Belzer Show'' on
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, and hosted the Lifetime cable TV talk show, ''Hot Properties.'' By the 1990s, he was appearing frequently on television. He was a regular on ''
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-based '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999) and the New York City-based '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (1999–2013), portraying police detective
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in both series.
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, Executive Producer of ''Homicide'', said Belzer was a "lousy actor" in audition when he read lines from the script for "
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", the first episode in the series. Levinson asked Belzer to take time to reread and practice the material, then read it again. At his second reading, Levinson said Belzer was "still terrible", but that the actor eventually found confidence in his performance. In addition, Belzer played Munch in episodes on seven other series and in a sketch on one talk show, making Munch the only fictional character to appear on 11 different television shows played by a single actor. These shows were on six different networks: * '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (
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) * ''
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'' (NBC) * ''
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'' ( Fox) * '' The Beat'' ( UPN) * '' Law & Order: Trial by Jury'' (NBC) ** Belzer's appearance on ''Trial by Jury'', which aired April 15, 2005, made him the third actor ever to play the same character in six different prime-time TV series. The other two actors are John Ratzenberger and George Wendt, who played
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and
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, respectively, in ''
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'' (1982–93), ''
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'' (2002). * ''
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) * ''
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'' ( ABC) * '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' (
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), in which he played a John Munch-like character on a fictional ''Law & Order'' spin-off. In March 2016, executive producer Warren Leight announced Belzer would return to reprise the role in a May 2016 episode of ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', titled "Fashionable Crimes". Belzer portrayed Det. Munch for 22 consecutive seasons on ''Homicide'' (7 seasons) and ''Law & Order: SVU'' (15 seasons), which exceeded the previous primetime live-action record of twenty consecutive seasons held by James Arness (who portrayed Marshal Matt Dillon on ''
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on ''
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'' and ''
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'' from 1984 to 2004). This record has since been passed by Belzer's ''SVU'' co-stars Mariska Hargitay and
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. Belzer appeared in several of
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's televised broadcasts of Friars' Club roasts. On June 9, 2001, Belzer himself was honored by the New York Friars Club and the Toyota Comedy Festival as the honoree of the first-ever roast open to the public. Comedians and friends on the dais included Roastmaster
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;
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;
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; Robert Klein;
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; ''SVU'' co-stars
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, Christopher Meloni,
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, and Dann Florek; and ''Law & Order''
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, Belzer said, "The only time Chevy Chase has a funny bone in his body is when I fuck him in the ass." Belzer voiced the character of Loogie for most of the ''
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'' episode titled " The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000". He and Brian Doyle-Murray were featured in the tenth-season premiere of ''
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''.


Author

Belzer believed there was a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy and wrote five books discussing
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: * ''UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe'' (2000) * ''Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups'' * ''Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination'' * ''Corporate Conspiracies: How Wall Street Took Over Washington'' * ''Someone Is Hiding Something: What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?'' ''Dead Wrong'' and ''Hit List'' were written with journalist David Wayne and reached The New York Times Best Seller list, ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. ''Someone Is Hiding Something'' was also written with David Wayne as well as radio talk show host George Noory. Belzer's long-time character, John Munch, was also a believer in conspiracy theories, including the JFK assassination. In 2008, Belzer published a novel, ''I Am Not a Cop!'', about a fictional version of himself investigating a murder.


Personal life

Belzer's first two marriages were to Gail Susan Ross (1966–1972) and boutique manager Dalia Danoch (1976 – c. 1978), both of which ended in divorce. In 1981, in Los Angeles, he met 32-year-old Harlee McBride, a divorcée with two daughters, Bree Benton and Jessica. McBride, who had been seen in ''Playboy'' magazine four years earlier in that year's sex-in-cinema feature, in conjunction with ''Young Lady Chatterley'', was appearing in TV commercials for Ford Motor Company, Ford and acting in free theater when she met Belzer at the suggestion of a friend. The two married in 1985 RE Ross: "In 1971, a year before the end of his six-year marriage to Gail Susan Ross...." RE Danoch: "In 1976. Belzer worked himself into a second marriage with Dalia Danoch, a boutique manager, but it ended in divorce less than two years later." and had a home in Bozouls, France. Belzer survived testicular cancer in 1983. His 1997
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special and comedy CD ''Another Lone Nut'' pokes fun at this medical incident, as well as his status as a well-known conspiracy theorist. On March 27, 1985, four days before the WrestleMania I, first WrestleMania, Belzer repeatedly requested on his TV talk show ''Hot Properties'' that professional wrestler Hulk Hogan demonstrate a wrestling move. Hogan applied a front facelock, which caused Belzer to pass out, and he hit the back of his head on the floor when released. After waking up, Belzer was dazed, lacerated and briefly hospitalized. He later Belzer v. Bollea, sued Hogan for $5 million and settled out of court for $400,000 in 1990. Belzer refers to the settlement in his 1997 HBO stand-up special ''Another Lone Nut'', revealing it helped him pay for a home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer called the "Chez Hogan" or "Hulk Hogan Estate". Belzer's father and brother both died by suicide, in 1968 and 2014, respectively. His cousin is actor Henry Winkler.


Death

On February 19, 2023, Belzer died from complications of respiratory disease in Bozouls, France at the age of 78. Many paid tribute to Belzer including Christopher Meloni,
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,
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, and Dick Wolf.


Filmography


Film


Television


Books

* ''UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe'', * ''How to Be a Stand-Up Comic'', * ''I Am Not a Cop!: A Novel'', * ''I Am Not a Psychic!'', * ''Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups'', * ''Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination'', * ''Someone Is Hiding Something: What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?'',


References


External links

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