For more than two decades and across 10 series, Belzer played the wise-cracking, acerbic homicide detective prone to conspiracy theories. Belzer first played Munch on a 1993 episode of “Homicide” and last played him in 2016 on “Law & Order: SVU.”
NEW YORK — Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU,” has died. He was 78.
Belzer never auditioned for the role. After hearing him on “The Howard Stern Show,” executive producer Barry Levinson brought the comedian in to read for the part. “He made me laugh a billion times,” his longtime friend and fellow stand-up Richard Lewis said Sunday on Twitter. But Belzer became one of the era's top stand-ups. He was known especially for his biting, cynical attitude and his witty, sometime combative banter with the audience. As one of the most influential comedians of the '70s, Belzer was a master of crowd work.
Belzer often played a stand-up comic in film, including in 1980s' “Fame" and 1983's “Scarface.” He had small roles here and there, including in "Night Shift" in 1982, and “Fletch Lives” in 1989. But Munch would change Belzer's career. “Richard Belzer’s Detective John Munch is one of television’s iconic characters," Wolf said in a statement.
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