Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, dies at 78

Richard Belzer is pictured at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.Charles Sykes/Invision/AP NEW YORK Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU, has died.He was 78.Belzer died Sunday at his home in Bozouls in southern France, his longtime friend Bill Scheft told The Hollywood Reporter.

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