Regulation & Order: SVU star Richard Belezer has reportedly died aged 78, at his house in Bozouls in Southern France.
The beloved actor starred within the present for 15 seasons as Detective John Munch. He additionally starred in Murder: Life on the Avenue for seven seasons.
Belzer had an extended and various profession together with as a comic.
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It was fellow comic Laraine Newman who first broke the information to the general public by way of Twitter, recalling their time collectively on Saturday Evening Dwell.
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She shared on Twitter: ”I am so unhappy to listen to of Richard Belzer’s passing. I cherished this man a lot. He was certainly one of my first pals after I acquired to New York to do SNL.
“We used to exit to dinner each week at Sheepshead Bay for lobster. One of many funniest folks ever. A grasp at crowd work. RIP dearest.”
Belzer’s representatives and household are but to problem a press release.
Julie Martin, who additionally served as a author on Murder: Life on the Avenue, tweeted: “Lacking Richard Belzer as we speak.
“Working with him on Murder to SVU has been a hilarious, stunning and all the time joyful expertise. I am positive he is giving ’em all numerous laughs upstairs.”
TV host Jon Stewart tweeted: “Relaxation in Peace Belz. No higher time than sitting again at Catch watching Richard wreck crowd after crowd…a grasp.”
Belzer was born in Connecticut within the US in 1944, starting his profession as a comic. He moved to New York Metropolis to proceed his profession the place he carried out stand-up and commenced showing on TV exhibits and in motion pictures.
Whereas he was by no means a fundamental solid member on SNL, Belzer made common visitor appearances on the present within the late Nineteen Seventies and behind the scenes he was chargeable for warming up the gang for the reside viewers.
His earliest film roles included The Groove Tube, Fame, Café Flesh, Evening Shift, and Scarface.
It was in 1993 that Belzer landed his breakout position as Detective John Munch on Regulation & Order: SVU. The character of Detective Munch appeared on 11 totally different exhibits throughout six networks together with on Regulation & Order spinoffs on NBC, The X-Information on Fox, The Beat on UPN, The Wire on HBO and Jimmy Kimmel Dwell on ABC.
Extra lately he appeared as Munch on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix in addition to different comedies like Arrested Improvement on Fox and 30 Rock on NBC.
After being written out of Regulation & Order: SVU in 2016 after 325 episodes, Belzer retired from performing. He authored 4 non-fiction books about conspiracy theories, a lot of which reportedly mirrored his private beliefs concerning the demise of US President John F Kennedy and UFOs.
He survived testicular most cancers in 1983.
Belzer was married 3 times and is survived by his third spouse, mannequin and actress Harlee McBride whom he married in 1985.
He’s survived by McBride and his two stepdaughters.
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