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Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:07 am
by matt1
Actor Richard Belzer has died at 78 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belzer
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 12:27 pm
by kager
Belzer had a long run, from early SNL to L&O. His stand-up stuff was only mildly funny to me, and during his early career I always thought he looked like a mobster, or a member the Ramones.
Did anyone ever see him without dark glasses on?
RIP, Munch.
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 5:53 pm
by audiophile
Who?
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:08 pm
by Mega Hertz
When I was much younger, I had mistaken him for Henry Winkler. My bad.
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:14 pm
by TC Talks
He's Jewish, you won't likely know about him.
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 6:03 am
by zzand
He and Winkler are cousins. He also did a stint on WNBC in New York as half of Brink And Belzer.
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:27 am
by Mega Hertz
zzand wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 6:03 am
He and Winkler are cousins. He also did a stint on WNBC in New York as half of Brink And Belzer.
You learn something new every day! That would explain it. Thanks zz.
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2023 1:57 pm
by audiophile
TC Talks wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:14 pm
He's Jewish, you won't likely know about him.
Really, because not that long ago you implied that I was Jewish!
TC Talks wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:09 pm
Audio on the other hand lives by the old testament...
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:55 am
by moldyoldie
Outside of Law & Order, he had a memorable bit part as a comedy club proprietor in the movie Fame. He gained a bit of notoriety by passing out and injuring his head after allowing Hulk Hogan to apply a sleeper hold while on stage during a talk show Belzer was hosting.
RIP
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:23 pm
by MichMash
moldyoldie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:55 am
Outside of
Law & Order, he had a memorable bit part as a comedy club proprietor in the movie
Fame. He gained a bit of notoriety by passing out and injuring his head after allowing Hulk Hogan to apply a sleeper hold while on stage during a talk show Belzer was hosting.
That ended up being a profitable little episode for Belzer. He passed away in the house in France that he bought with the proceeds from the lawsuit resulting from Hogan's headlock.
Belzer hosted the short-lived Lifetime talk show Hot Properties, where his guests in March 1985 included Hogan and Mr. T, on hand to promote the inaugural WrestleMania. The 6-foot-8, 300-pound Hogan put the 6-foot-1, 150-pound Belzer in a front chinlock, knocking him unconscious and then releasing him to the floor, where the limp comedian banged his head, drawing blood.
“He came very close to killing me,” Belzer told Roy Firestone in 1990. “I was told by a sports medicine expert that if I had fallen a few inches either way I could have been crippled for life, I could have been dead.” He sued Hogan, Mr. T, Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation for $5 million and received a reported $400,000 in a 1990 settlement, which he said he used for a down payment on his house in France.
Re: Richard Belzer dies
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:50 pm
by SD45
I always liked Homicide: Life on the Street. Munch should have stayed in Baltimore.