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Richard Belzer, Comic Turned TV Detective Dies

For more than two decades and across 10 series — even including appearances on 30 Rock and Arrested Development — Belzer played the wise-cracking, acerbic homicide detective prone to conspiracy theories. Belzer first played Munch on a 1993 episode of Homicide and last played him in 2016 on Law & Order: SVU. He was 78.

Richard Belzer Leaving ‘Law & Order: SVU’