Dick Wolf pays tribute to Richard Belzer: “Detective John Munch is one of television’s iconic characters... Richard brought humor and joy into all our lives, was the consummate professional and we will all miss him very much.”
Missing Richard Belzer today. Working with him on Homicide to SVU has been a hilarious, surprising and always joyful experience. I'm sure he's giving 'em all a lot of laughs upstairs. 💔💔Belzer bowed out as a series regular on “SVU” in Oct. 2013, after 230-plus episodes. Belzer’s well-traveled Munch, a detective in the NYPD’s special victims unit, transitioned to a role as an investigator with the District Attorney’s office in the Oct. 16, 2013, episode of “SVU.
A particularly memorable episode of “SVU” involved Munch dealing with his homeless, mentally ill uncle, portrayed by Jerry Lewis, who takes matters into his own hands while working on a case involving a mother and her 10-year-old daughter being found brutally murdered in their apartment. On “Homicide” he was originally partnered with Ned Beatty’s Det. Stanley Bolander, who did not hide his contempt for Munch’s eccentricities.
TV shows on which he guested — but not as Munch — included “Moonlighting,” “Miami Vice,” “The Larry Sanders Show” and “Mad About You.” In a 1993 article, People magazine declared that “Belzer has had comedy-club cult status since the ’70s, when he was the best and brightest regular at New York City’s Catch a Rising Star. ‘Being a cult figure,’ he says, ‘is a nice way of saying people loved me, but it didn’t pay the rent.'” The article quoted Paul Shaffer: “‘When I first came to New York in 1974,’ says Shaffer, ‘Gilda took me to Catch, and Richard was absolutely hysterical.
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