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Date of Birth : Aug 4th 1944

American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, perhaps best known for his work as Sgt. John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

In the late 1970s and early ’80s, Belzer became an occasional film actor. He is noted for his small roles in Fame, Night Shift, and Scarface. Belzer (billed as “Richard Brando”) went on to provide the voice of “The Breather” in the box office flop Student Bodies. He also appeared in the music videos for the Mike + The Mechanics song “Taken In” and for the Pat Benatar song “La Bel Age”. He had a movie role as an LAPD detective in A Very Brady Sequel.

In addition to his film career, Belzer has a place in radio history as a featured player on the National Lampoon Radio Hour, a half-hour comedy program aired on some 600 U.S. stations from 1973 to 1975. Several of his sketches were released on National Lampoon albums drawn from the Radio Hour, including several bits in which he portrayed a pithy call-in talk show host named “Dick Ballentine”. In the late 1970s, he cohosted Brink & Belzer on 660AM WNBC (New York City). He has also been a frequent guest on “The Howard Stern Show”; he is noted for his combative, but playful, banter. (Stern recently admonished Belzer for being a last-minute, no-show emcee for an animal group’s charity event. Stern recanted after Belzer explained [off the air] what caused the absence.)


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Author! Author! ( 1982 )

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Fame ( 1980 )

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