Richard Jay Belzer was born on August 4, 1944. an American actor, comedian and author. He is best known for his role as BPD Detective, NYPD Detective/sergeant and investigator John Munch whom he portrayed for 23 years in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

born in Bridgeport, Connecticut to a Jewish family. Belzer attended Dean College, which was then known as Dean Junior College, in Franklin, Massachusetts, but was expelled.
Belzer survived testicular cancer in 1983. His HBO special and comedy CD Another Lone Nut pokes fun at this medical incident as well as his status as a well-known conspiracy theorist.
On March 27, 1985, four days before the first WrestleMania, Belzer repeatedly requested on his TV talk show Hot Properties that Hulk Hogan demonstrate a wrestling move. Hogan applied a front facelock, causing him to pass out. When released, he hit the back of his head on the floor. He was dazed, lacerated and briefly hospitalized after waking up. He sued for $5 million and settled out of court for $400,000 in 1990. He refers to this in his HBO stand-up special Another Lone Nut. It helped him pay for a home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer called the "Chez Hogan" or "Hulk Hogan Estate".
Belzer died at his home on February 19, 2023, at age 78, from complications of unspecified circulatory and respiratory conditions According to his friend Bill Scheft, a novelist, his last words were: "Fuck you, motherfucker!"

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