The interpreter died at his home in Bozouls, in southwestern France.
“He had a lot of health problems and his last words were: ‘Fuck you, son of a bitch,'” his friend Bill Scheft told that magazine.
Belzer made his debut in the 1974 Ken Shapiro comedy “The Groove Tube,” but he established himself on the television scene thanks to John Munch, a character based on a real-life Baltimore agent.
That detective, according to “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf, “is one of the iconic characters on television.”
Wolf first worked with Belzer on the crossover ‘Law & Order’ https://lifeandstyle.expansion.mx/’Homicide’ and liked the character so much that he told producer Tom Fontana that he wanted to make him one of the leads in “Special Victims Unit”.
“The rest is history. Richard brought humor and joy to all of our lives, he was a consummate professional and will be sorely missed by all,” he said in a statement published by Variety magazine.
With the same role as detective Munch, Belzer appeared in series such as “The Wire”, “30 Rock” or “The X-Files”, within a career in which he also stands out for having acted on the program “Saturday Night Live” or his facet as a writer, with books like “How to be a stand-up comic” (1998).