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 Richard Belzer
Birthday: August 4, 1944
Birth
Place: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Height: 6' 1"
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Launching his career as a standup comic, American performer Richard Belzer entered the 1970s as a member of an odd New York-based comedy troupe called Channel One. Anticipating the home video explosion by over a decade, Channel One staged satirical, scatological routines lampooning the banalities of television — and staged them in front of TV cameras, which transmitted the routines to little TV monitors, which in turn were watched by the live audience. Some of the best sketches were assembled into an X-rated comedy feature, The Groove Tube (1970), which featured Belzer, Ken Shapiro, and a brash newcomer named Chevy Chase. For the next decade, Belzer played the comedy-club circuit, popped up as a talkshow guest, and appeared in occasional films like Fame (1982). He joined still another comedy troupe in 1983, which appeared nightly on the syndicated interview program Thicke of the Night. The host was Allan Thicke, and Belzer's comic cohorts included such incipient stars as Charles Fleischer, Chloe Webb and Gilbert Gottfried. Thicke of the Night was one of the more notorious bombs of the 1983-84 season, but it enabled Belzer to secure better guest-star bookings, and ultimately a hosting job on his own program, debuting in 1986 over the Lifetime Cable Service. It was on this series that wrestler Hulk Hogan, demonstrating a stranglehold on Belzer caused the host to lose consciousness — which prompted a highly publicized lawsuit instigated by Belzer against the Hulkster. In the early 1990s, Richard Belzer could be seen as a non-comic regular on the TV series Homicide.
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- Wrestler Hulk Hogan hurt him while demonstrating a wrestling move on a 1986 TV show called 'Hot Properties'. He was knocked unconscious and required stitches on his head. He sued Hulk for million, but later settled out of court.
- Is a frequent guest on "The Howard Stern Radio Show" (1998).
- Became the third person to play the same character in six different prime-time TV series, playing Detective John Munch in "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) (originating series), "Law & Order" (1990) (crossovers), "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005)_ (crossover), "X Files, The" (1993)_ (crossover), "The Beat" (2000) (guest-appearance in the short-lived UPNseries), and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999)_ , where he currently stars. He followed John Ratzenberger and George Wendt who played Cliff Clavin and Norm Peterson in Cheers 1982-1993, St. Elsewhere 1985, The Tortellis 1987, Wings 1990, The Simpsons 1994 and Frasier 2002.
- Appeared on the 25 March 1978 episode of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) with Christopher Lee as the host and musical guest, Meat Loaf.
- Appeared on the 2 October 1976 episode of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) with Eric Idle as the host and musical guests George Harrison, Joe Cocker, and Stuff.
- Played himself in the movie Fame (1980).
- Robert De Niro studied Belzer for his role in The King of Comedy (1983).
- Auditioned for the role of Groucho Marx in the Tommy Tune production "A Day in Hollywood, a Night in the Ukraine." Belzer taught himself two songs from the 1930s ("Satin Doll" and "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"), but did not get the part.
- Was going to appear in Chevy Chase's movie, Modern Problems (1981), but scheduling conflicts could not be worked out. The date for the shooting of his scene was postponed twice and the day his scene was supposed to be shot, Belzer had a lucrative club date in New York, which was postponed at the last minute.
- Testified on behalf of a low-level criminal who ran onto the set of "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) while fleeing actual Baltimore police and surrendered to the actors; Belzer said the look on the guy's face was sufficient punishment
- Cousin of Henry Winkler.
- Appeared in episodes of three different series with Jerry Orbach: "Law & Order" (1990), "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999).
- Has appeared in episodes of three different television series with Jesse L. Martin: "Law & Order" (1990), "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005).
- His character Detective John Munch, which he has played continuously on "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) since January 1993, is currently the longest-running character on American primetime drama television.
- Was born on the same day that Anne Frank and her family were arrested by the Gestapo.
- His aunt and uncle (Henry Winkler's parents) were survivors of the Holocaust.
- Has appeared in episodes of four different series with Sam Waterston: "Law & Order" (1990), "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993), "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999) and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005).
- Stepfather of Bree Benton.
- Was an assistant emcee for the Comedy Central Presents: The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Rob Reiner.
- He is the only actor to play the same character, Detective John Munch, in seven different 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) and "Arrested Development" (2003).
- Appears on the cover of Billy Joel's "Turnstiles" album (1976).
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