Richard Belzer, born in Bridgeport in 1944, was an acerbic American stand-up who reinvented himself into one of network television's longest-running characters. He created the conspiracy-minded detective John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and carried him across an unprecedented ten different series, most famously Law and Order: Special Victims Unit for over fifteen seasons. Off camera he was a working comic and provocative political writer. He died in 2023, remembered as both a dry-witted comedian's comedian and one of television's most unlikely mainstays. Read more