Tributes have poured in for Legislation & Order: SVU star Richard Belzer, who died on the age of 78.
The beloved comic and actor is being remembered by his buddies and colleagues after he reportedly died at residence in Southern France following well being problems.
Now Legislation & Order: SVU‘s fundamental stars, Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni have led tributes to Belzer, who’s being remembered as “an expensive buddy” and “brother”.
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Paying tribute to Belzer, Meloni, who performed Sergeant Elliot Steady on the present, shared an outdated picture of him with the actor, together with a candy goodbye.
“Richard “The Belz” Belzer. An exquisite soul, a dapper dresser, with the spirit of a kid. By no means met anybody like him, and I by no means will once more. Ur final phrases have helped make ur passing simpler to take,” he wrote.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Belzer stored to his blunt comedy fashion even in his final breaths, together with his final phrases being “F–okay you, motherf––r,” in accordance with shut buddy and comedy author Invoice Scheft.
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Sharing a textual content submit to Instagram, Mariska Hargitay, who performs Captain Olivia Benson on the long-running sequence, shared some candy phrases for her late buddy.
“Goodbye my expensive, expensive buddy,” she wrote. “I’ll miss you, your distinctive gentle, and your singular tackle this unusual world.”
The message continued, “I really feel blessed to have recognized you and adored you and labored with you, aspect by aspect, for thus a few years. How fortunate the angels are to have you ever. I can hear them laughing already. I like you so very a lot, now and perpetually.”
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Rapper Ice-T, who performs Fin Tutuola on Legislation & Order: SVU additionally shared a tribute.
“Highs and Lows… After some of the superb weeks of my life. I get up to the information I misplaced my buddy right now,” the rapper revealed. “Belz is gone.. Rattling it! However bear in mind this..’If you ARE having actual enjoyable and are Actually Joyful. ENJOY it to the fullest! Trigger Ache is inevitably coming.’ I will miss you Homie.”
The rapper had obtained his star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame only some days earlier.
Meantime Dean Winters, who performed Brian Cassidy, the associate to Belzer’s John Munch on the present, revealed his sorrow on the information.
“Richard Belzer was my brother,” he wrote. “We grew to become quick buddies in ’92 after I was a bartender, sooner buddies after I did my first job on NBC’s HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET and in 1998 he referred to as me and mentioned ‘child, Dick Wolf is doing a brand new present referred to as LAW and ORDER SVU and he needs me to be on it. I informed Dick ‘Provided that you make Dean Winters my associate, Brian Cassidy’ Child, are you in?’ I used to be in.”
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He ended, “There aren’t lots of people with class like that left. ‘Classe non e acqua’. Everybody can have water, not everybody can have class. Richard Belzer had class for days. I’ll miss this man very a lot.”
In a press release, Legislation & Order creator Dick Wolf celebrated Belzer as an actor who “introduced humor and pleasure into all our lives.”
“Richard Belzer’s Detective John Munch is one among tv’s iconic characters,” the assertion reads. “I first labored with Richard on the ‘Legislation & Order’/’Murder’ crossover and liked the character a lot, I informed Tom (Fontana) that I wished to make him one of many unique characters on ‘SVU.’ The remainder is historical past.”
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