Richard Belzer

Richard Jay Belzer is a well known American stand-up comedian who featured in many American TV series. He was also an executive producer for two feature films 'BelzerVizion' (2007) and 'Santorini Blue' (2010).He made his debut in movies and TV serials in the same year (1974-75). But his debut movie 'The Groove Tube' (1974) got released first. His first appearance in television program was with ‘ Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live or popularly called as NBC&#39 >> Read More... ’ which was aired on NBC in 1975. It was comedy show created by Lorne Michaels. Richard Belzer is also the cousin of TV actor and director Henry Franklin Winkler. In the year 1993, he appeared in American TV series 'Homicide: Life on the Street' that was screened in NBC channel from 1993-1999.

Regularly, the actor was seen portraying the pivotal character for 23 years from 1993 to 2016 in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" which was an American police, legal and crime drama TV series on NBC. This drama TV series is still on the air. It is the 50th longest running scripted U.S. primetime TV series on a major broadcast network. Actor Richard Belzer is very much popular for playing the role of detective as John Munich in the American crime drama TV series ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ on NBC.

In the year 1966, Richard got married to Gail Susan Ross and got a divorce in 1972. Soon after his divorce, he landed up in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... and started his career as a comedian in some private shows. Later, he got associated with Channel one comedy group and featured in the timeless classic movie “The Groove Tube” and got a break in TV series 'Saturday Night Live' that was aired on NBC. Richard was not a regular film star as he had pre-occupied himself with many TV projects on NBC. Hence, he appeared occasionally in some movies that had his brief and small appearance. He has appeared in many movies with a cameo appearance.

With singer and actress Madonna, he appeared in a cameo for her movie 'Dangerous Game'(1993) which was directed by Abel Ferrara. He appeared in an American horror frictional drama 'The X-Files' that was aired on Fox channel. After his first divorce in 1972, he married twice again. In the year 1996, he married boutique manager Dalia Danoch and divorced her in 1978.

Later he met a divorced actress Harlee McBride who is known for an erotic character in the film 'Young Lady Chatterley' (1977) and its sequel titled 'Young Lady Chatterley II' (1985). Richard Jay Belzer was born on August 4, 1944, in Bridgeport.