{"id":118092,"date":"2023-02-19T22:11:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118092"},"modified":"2023-02-19T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:11:53","slug":"actor-comedian-richard-belzer-dies-at-78-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118092","title":{"rendered":"Actor &#038; Comedian Richard Belzer Dies at 78 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118092\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=118092\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118093 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download-3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download-3.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richard Belzer, who played Detective John Munch across multiple NBC crime dramas including LAW &amp; ORDER (1990-) and HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STRRET (1993-1999), passed away February 19, 2023, at his home in Paris, France. No immediate cause of death was given. He was 78.<\/p>\n<p>Belzer was a stand-up comedian in New York City, working at The Improv and Catch a Rising Star and was the audience warm-up comedian for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (1975-) and made three guest appearances on the show between 1975 and 1980.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Known more for his TV and film appearances, Belzer\u2019s filmography includes FAME (1980), NIGHT SHIFT (1982), NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS (1982-1990), SCARFACE (1983), MOONLIGHTING (1985-1989), MIAMI VICE (1984-1989), THE BIG PICTURE (1989), FLETCH LIVES (1989), THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (1990), THE FLASH (1990-1991), LOIS &amp; CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (1993-1997), NORTH (1994), A VERY BRADY SEQUEL (1996), MAD ABOUT YOU (1992-2019), MAN ON THE MOON (1999), ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (2003-2019), 30 ROCK ( 2006-2013), UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT (2015-2020), and AMERICAN DAD (2005-).<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Richard Belzer\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Richard Belzer, who played Detective John Munch across multiple NBC crime dramas including LAW &amp; ORDER (1990-) and HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STRRET (1993-1999), passed away February 19, 2023, at his home in Paris, France. No immediate cause of death was given. He was 78. Belzer was a stand-up comedian in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[30445],"class_list":["post-118092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-actor-comedian-richard-belzer-dies-at-78-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118092"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}