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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
Mariska Hargitay and different Law & Order: Special Victims Unit cast members are mourning 1 of their own.
Richard Belzer, who played detective John Munch connected the NBC bid for 15 afloat seasons aft originating the role on Homicide: Life connected the Street, died Feb. 19. The actor, who was besides a standup comedian and writer of conspiracy mentation books, was 78.
"Goodbye my dear, beloved friend," Mariska, who plays Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU, wrote connected her Instagram. "I volition miss you, your unsocial light, and your singular instrumentality connected this unusual world."
The histrion continued, "I consciousness blessed to person known you and adored you and worked with you, broadside by side, for truthful galore years. How fortunate the angels are to person you. I tin perceive them laughing already. I emotion you truthful precise much, present and forever."
Christopher Meloni, who plays Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: SVU, besides paid tribute to Belzer connected societal media. The histrion tweeted a photograph of himself kissing his precocious co-star's feature at the comic's 2001 Friars Club Roast, with Hargitay smiling down them.
"Good bye mon ami," Meloni wrote. "I emotion you. #TheBelz."
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Meanwhile, Dean Winters, who played Munch's spouse Brian Cassidy on Law & Order: SVU, shared a formed photograph of himself and Belzer connected Instagram.
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"Richard Belzer was my brother," Winters wrote. "We became accelerated friends successful '92 erstwhile I was a bartender, faster friends erstwhile I did my archetypal occupation connected NBC's HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET and successful 1998 helium called maine and said 'baby, Dick Wolf is doing a caller amusement called LAW and ORDER SVU and helium wants maine to beryllium connected it. I told Dick 'Only if you marque Dean Winters my partner, Brian Cassidy' Baby, are you in?' I was in."
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Winters added, "There aren't a batch of radical with people similar that left. 'Classe non e acqua' Everyone tin person water, not everyone tin person class. Richard Belzer had people for days. I volition miss this antheral precise much."
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