NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who turned one of TV’s most indelible detectives as John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Avenue” and “Regulation & Buy: SVU,” has died. He was 78.
Belzer died Sunday at his residence in Bozouls in southern France, his longtime buddy Invoice Scheft told The Hollywood Reporter. Comic Laraine Newman first introduced his loss of life on Twitter. The actor Henry Winkler, Belzer’s cousin, wrote “Relaxation in peace Richard.”
For much more than two many years and across 10 sequence — such as even appearances on “30 Rock” and “Arrested Improvement” — Belzer performed the smart-cracking murder detective vulnerable to conspiracy theories. Belzer 1st played Munch on a 1993 episode of “Homicide” and past performed him in 2016 on “Law & Get: SVU.”
Belzer under no circumstances auditioned for the part. Soon after hearing him on “The Howard Stern Display,” executive producer Barry Levinson introduced Belzer in to examine for the part.
“I would never ever be a detective. But if I were being, that’s how I would be,” Belzer once claimed. “They publish to all my paranoia and anti-institution dissidence and conspiracy theories. So it truly is been a good deal of fun for me. A aspiration, actually.”
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