He always looked sickly, like Abe Vigoda did for years.
I’ve always hated that show. Especially the SVU version.
I only knew Belzer from his writing of conspiracy theories including Hit List (JFK witness deaths and other topics) and Dead Wrong. I recently learned he wrote crime novels.
Since I never watched TV from about 1990-last year when my wife died (so it’s too grimly quiet without something TV or radio) I missed his shows but then I watched dozens of the old Law and Order and others. All crime or related.
Watched Homicide: Life On the Streets as well as the other use of the same Detective Munch character on L&O.
Here’s a joke he told: “You know what happens when you run a country song backwards? You get your house again, your wife returns to you and your dog comes back.”
May he rest in peace.