Richard Belzer dead !

He was great on Howard Stern.

Good riddance. Miserable bastard. I worked as crew on L&O: SVU and he was a fucking pain in the ass who’d blame the extras on set when he fucked up.

Really^?

Awww, that’s a shame. He was terrific in An Officer and a Gentleman, and he was pretty good in Pretty Woman.

He was wicked smart and well liked by his contemporaries

cause of death?

There is a DL obit protocol and this isn’t it

YOU are dead to me, OP

Bill Maher pounced on him when he attacked a female panelist. He was forced to apologize.

Oh nooo. I fucks with him; he brought wit and a New York realism to SVU. I wondered if that was his real personality.

His father killer himself

His mother abused him and his brother

Henry Winkler is his cousin

He had testicular cancer in the 80s

He retired back in 2016

His father killed himself

His mother abused him and his brother

Henry Winkler is his cousin

He had testicular cancer in the 80s

He retired back in 2016

He had a hot ass.

R12 = love child of Ray Charles and Marlee Martin

Only source is a tweet from Laraine Newman. TMZ doesn't even have this posted yet

Has young Lady Chatterly commented? Fredricka Whitfield?

Mariska commented yet?

Wow....people are swift. His Wikipedia page has already been updated.

NOT MUNCH!!!!!!!!

78 is respectable

And that brings us to three celebrities for the week: Welch, Stevens and Belzer. The Grim Reaper can take some time off, now.

[quote]cause of death?

His heart stopped beating.

Laraine's pretty reliable. Let's hope Belzer and Sizemore (on a precipice) get their third before Carter goes.

I thought he was already dead, it must be the guy I always confuse him with.... can't remember his name a comedian I think. Why is everyone suddenly dying.

Is all of Hollywood dropping dead right now?

[quote]Why is everyone suddenly dying.

Really?

Mariska has weighed in.

He's fine and sends his love.

His wife Lady Chatterley was absurdly too hot for him.

I never watched the Law and Order shows but he was excellent on Homicide Life in the Street. He played Detective Munch on seven different programs, tying together The Wire with the X-Fiiles and Arrested Development.

Munch was the only character I could tolerate on SVU.

He was on an X Files episode?

[23] are you thinking of Gary Shandling?

No resemblance, but kind of the same type of comedian. Very dry

“He died in at his home early Sunday in Bozouls in southwest France.

‘He had lots of health issues, and his last words were, ‘Fuck you, motherfucker,'’ writer Bill Scheft told The Hollywood Reporter.”

Didn’t Howard & Robin say he already looked dead in the 80’s?

R26, that’s not her. It’s a fan account.

[quote] ‘He had lots of health issues, and his last words were, ‘Fuck you, motherfucker,'’ writer Bill Scheft told The Hollywood Reporter.”

Sure, Jan. Now tell us his one about either those curtains go or I do.

I stopped watching him decades ago because he was such an insufferable asshole.

FUN FACT: Laraine Newman has a brother named Paul.

he looked older than his age.

I thought he had died years ago. I remember he looked terrible in his final SVU appearances and it’s been years since those.

So sad. I love watching law and order sexy time reruns on ion on Saturdays and my favorites are the earlier seasons which of course he appeared on.

Wow the dumb f*** comments wondering why people are dying as if they're they dropping Dead all of a sudden. all of these people dying "suddenly" are well into their 70s and 80s how f****** stupid are you?

I loved him as Munch on SVU. Lost interest in the show after he and Cragen left the show. Their roles were decreased prior to their departures, but they were the backbone of the show needed. It's been unwatchable for years now.

I'm not in touch with him, so I wouldn't know.

Used to see him on the street when I lived in NYC. He dressed in all black, just like on tv.

Richard Belzer is DEAD TO ME.

His death makes Steve Buscemi the ugliest male in show business.

You freaks with your demands that people follow your self-declared DL death protocol are what destroyed the innocent Bearking News. Use “dead to me” if you like, but it is NOT mandatory.

It’s mandatory and I said so!

[quote]Use “dead to me” if you like, but it is NOT mandatory.

What about "He sends his love. He's fine."

^Optional.

Nothing yet from Susan Dey.

Oh no!

I loved this guy on L & O.

Damn!

Calm down, r41, or you’ll be next.

R24 yes. The older boomers are approaching 8O. We are about to see a lot of fkin super famous people obituaries in the news. I mean we have already. Olivia Newton John, Ray Liotta, and Barba Walters all died last year. The latter wasn’t a boomer though.

R8, that “female panelist” was Ann Coulter

[quote]Bearking News

"Bearking" is for Big Fat Stupidheads.

Ice T, you in danger gurl!

Has Clark Johnson weighed in?

R 8 and 55, here it is. “Faschist Party Doll” was a bit harsh?

🐻👑👋

/Fascist

[quote]The older boomers are approaching 8O. We are about to see a lot of fkin super famous people obituaries in the news.

A friend and I were just talking about this. Over the next decade we're going to see a shit-ton of Boomer celebrities dying. Think of how many big-time actors, actresses and musicians are in their seventies now. There are so many.

R26, this makes me think this is a sudden death

I've heard really nasty things about him for years. And frankly, he's looked like the walking dead for many years.

He had a pockmarked ass, but he couldn't live forever.

[Quote]His death makes Steve Buscemi the ugliest male in show business.

Excuse me? Have you seen Jonah Hill?

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His last words

Why is Homicide not available streaming anywhere?

I've been reading he was quite the conspiracy theorist. He also appeared frequently on Alex Jones' show.

I thought he was already dead.

R69 I’ve heard that the music is too expensive to license for streaming

I love when people like r68 post shit we knew about like 6 hours ago.

R72, darn Tom Waits (go to 3:26).

Isn't he the guy who ruined one of Pat Benetar's music videos back in the mid 80s?

[quote] Isn't he the guy who ruined one of Pat Benetar's music videos back in the mid 80s?

How could he have "ruined" a shitty Pat Benatar music video? ALL of her music videos sucked.

He was a smart, funny guy. He did a dead on impression of Mick Jagger, quite hilarious but entirely accurate.

[quote] The Grim Reaper can take some time off, now.

No, get to work and take Trump. Hell, I'd even settle for the Reaper taking a Kushner.

Here is Pat's Belzer train wreck video -

Homicide Life in the Street should’ve never been cancelled.

His brother committed suicide like his father—jumped off his roof.

I used to confuse him with with Richard Lewis.

Even in an episode of HLOTS on YT, the music is stripped out (two songs by Tom Waits). It's a good episode nonetheless, with some good Munch scenes.

He wasn't bad looking at all when he was younger. Here he is as high school senior in 1962.

I'm available to console Chris Meloni for as long as he needs. 😏😉

R82 I’m sure Mariska is over at her “pal” Ali Wentworth’s, working through her grief

Chris Orbach tweet

*Insert Princess Diana death cry*

Awww. I loved Belz. A few of the other posts I saw (didn't read them all): He was great on Howard Stern - I think I remember him admitting he let a guy blow him. And he was fantastic on Homicide. Everyone was fantastic on Homicide. Incredible show.

[quote] Homicide Life in the Street should’ve never been cancelled.

Of course it was cancelled. It never got good ratings. It stayed on a long time for a tv show that was low rated and expensive to produce.

There was a HLOTS blog wehre all the rabid fans of the show congregated. When it was announced the show would be cancelled the crazy fans screamed "No, it will not be cancelled, it will not, IT WILL NOT!" They said of course another network would pick it up and it would continue. I put forth the view that this was nonsense, and boy did they get mad! They were positively unhinged. I sometimes wondered what became of them. But I guess they simply switched their obsessed to Tom Fontana's "Oz" after HLOTS was no more.

Just from his photos I am guessing he had a beautiful cut cock. Any intel?

He also only had one ball, r88.

He died at his house in southwestern France? That’s the sign of a life well lived.

Holy cow. So many celebrity deaths. Of course, no one gets out of here alive, I realize that. Someone mentioned Stevens. I had to google, as I didn't know who that was....Stella Stevens! That's the first I heard of that. It was mentioned that Belzer was related to Henry Winkler....now, I see a resemblence, with Winkler being better looking. RIP to Mr. Belzer, Ms. Stevens and all.

Ice T tweets

Mariska on Instagram

Chris Meloni tweets

I loved his moment in Fame when he’s on stage and he tells the little punk up-and-coming comedian to STFU.

According to Wikipedia, Belzer's last words were...."Fuck you, motherfucker."

Gee, r96, with scoops like those, you should be in the news.

You’re on a par with Murrow!

Glad you liked it...I'll echo Belzer's last words to you.

"Of course it was cancelled. It never got good ratings. It stayed on a long time for a tv show that was low rated and expensive to produce."

I was gonna say. I don't know how far in advance they knew HLOTS would be canceled, but I don't remember the story arcs having massively inappropriate or incomplete conclusions. It was 6-7 seasons, 122 episodes. The rabid fans complaining of its cancellation at the time just shows that the era it existed in was very different. That sort of run now wouldn't be expected at all and would be quite impressive.

His Lifetime talk show was awful and he was insufferable and ugly. But there were only so many cable channels so watched it. He was great on SVU.

HLOTS had seven seasons. I'm the show's biggest fan. I may even have participated in the blog about which r87 shrieked. But if it had been canceled after season 5, it might have been better. The addition of such non-luminaries as Falsone, Ballard, and Sheppard had NBC suit footprints all over it, and it was not an improvement. Kellerman should have been the last addition to the detective squad. I was not a fan of Pembleton's stroke, either.

[quote] Falsone, Ballard, and Sheppard had NBC suit footprints all over it

Yes the final season was cringe. They ended one season too late, not too soon.

I'd like to know how Laraine Newman is so close to this. Was she his mistress or in a thouple with him and Harlee McBride..

Is the only actor in television history to play the same character (Detective John Munch) in 11 different live-action series: Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), Law & Order (1990), The X-Files (1993), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), The Beat (2000), Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005), Arrested Development (2003), The Wire (2002), Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), 30 Rock (2006), and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015).

Laraine and Belz have been friends since the 1970s. He was one of the first people who befriended her when she moved to NYC to pursue a career there. She was probably friendly with his wife too. Not surprising she heard about his death before most did.

"Homicide; LIfe on the Streets" got REALLY bad towards the end. Michael Michelle was brought on as a "beauty queen detective." Michelle Forbes was brought on as a slutty, alcoholic medican examiner. Callie Thorne and Jon Seda began a hot affair; one scene showed Seda licking and sucking a peach while Thorne creamed her panties. Yes, that show dreck in its later seasons.

[quote] one scene showed Seda licking and sucking a peach while Thorne creamed her panties

I was thinking specifically of them ( thought I didn't recall the peach detail ) when I called the last season cringe

But back when it was good it was GOOD.

I ignored the show its first several seasons thinking it was just yet another cop show. This is where I came in and saw how wrong I had been.

So what would HLOTS fans say are the peak years? I'd say seasons 1-4 are unimpeachable. 6-7 are problematic. I forget if the slide started in season 5 or if 5 was good all the way through. Regardless, I did watch all seven seasons and I liked fair amount of the final seasons, even with all the BS people have noted, and even though it was a marked drop off from the earlier seasons.

This is my biggest memory of Richard for some reason.

I wasn’t a huge fan of his, but damn, I appreciate X Files and SUV existing in the same universe, linked by John Munch.

And Kimmy Schmidt

I remember when that happened r107. It was horrible. Hohan physically assaulted Belzer in that clip. I won't watch it again.

Hulk could easily have killed him. When Belzer sprang up and went to a commercial break, he was in a state of shock. Blood can be seen down the back of his shirt. The next night, he showed the stitches.

He sued for $5 million, settled for $400,000. He should have gotten the 5 mil. What Hogan and Mr T did to him was humiliating and barbaric.

Belzer took the 400 K and used it to help finance a house in France.

R55 this is a great and very eye opening clip. And it’s 1000 times worse now.