• Name: Richard J. Belzer.

• Born: 4 August 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut, US. .

• Father: Charles Belzer.

• Mother: Frances Belzer.

• Wife / Husband: Gayle Susan Ross, Oatmeal Dench, Harley McBride.

        Richard J. Belzer is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is best known for his roles as BPD Detective, NYPD Detective / Sergeant and DA Investigator John Munch, whom he cast as a regular cast member in the NBC Police Drama Series Homicide: Life on the Street and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Is featured. , As well as appearing in guest roles in several other series. He portrayed a 23-year-old character from 1993 to 2016.

        Belzer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, France, the son of Charles Belzer, a tobacco and candy retailer. He grew up in a Jewish family. He often described his mother as physically abusive, and announced that his comedy career began when he tried to make his mother laugh at him for abusing him and his brother.

        After graduating from Fairfield Warde High School, Belzer worked as a reporter for the Bridgeport Post. After graduating from Fairfield Warde High School, Belzer worked as a reporter for the Bridgeport Post. Belzer attended Dean’s College, then known as Dean’s Junior College in Franklin, Massachusetts, but was expelled for leading demonstrations for really stupid reasons.

        Before becoming a famous stand-up comedian, Belzer had several jobs including teachers, census takers, jewelry sellers, and a dockworker. Belzer became an occasional film actor in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He is known for small roles in Fame, Cafe Flesh, Night Shift and Scarface. He also appeared in music videos and songs.

However, in the early 1970s, Belzer’s wandering took him to New York City, where his rabble-rousing eventually proved an asset, earning him a place in the Channel One sketch-comedy group, which included rising comedy star Cheers Chase. And as a result Belzer was born and made a screen debut in the 1974 film The Groove Tube. Meanwhile, Belzer was a regular at New York City comedy clubs, sharpening his biting, sarcastic wit, became a regular Emperor in Catch the Rising Star and starred in an off-Broadway production of the National Lampoon Stage Show in 1975 .

        When fellow artists – including Chase, John Belushi, Bill Murray and Gilda Redner – went on to form the core of Saturday Night Live! Belzer made three appearances on the program between 1976 and 1978, a period during which Belzer’s second marriage took place and lasted.

        Belzer continued to perform stand-up during his busy TV run. He landed an HBO comedy special, “Other Lone Nut”, in 1997, as well as a CD of the same name and material. He succeeded in making several features as a foreign-infected political ally, including “The Puppet Masters” (1994); Rob Reiner’s disastrous “Answer” (1994); Spike Lee’s “Girl 6,” as a phone sex subscriber and “Get on the Bus”, as the itinerant driver of the Million Man March-led bus; And “Species II” (1998), as President of the United States.

         Most of his guest work at this time cast him as a suspected detective, a role he settled with little or no crisis. Belzer’s wit made him a regular guest on Howard Stern’s radio and television series (E !, 1994–2005) and “Real Time with Bill Maher” (HBO, 2003–).