Richard Belzer, who was identified for his function on the hit TV sequence “Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit,” died on the age of 78, a good friend of the actor confirmed to Fox News Digital on Sunday.
Belzer acquired scores of tributes throughout social media, and plenty of tales concerning the famed actor surfaced. Followers of Belzer and professional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan recalled the incident that led to a lawsuit.
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Richard Belzer attends a particular screening of “Blood Diamond” in New York on Nov. 30, 2006. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
Belzer was the host of the present “Sizzling Properties” within the mid-Nineteen Eighties, and in a single episode Hogan and Mr. T have been on this system to advertise the first-ever WrestleMania. To show that professional wrestling wasn’t pretend, Hogan put Belzer right into a entrance chinlock and the actor handed out and fell to the bottom.
Belzer could be knocked out briefly and was helped up by Hogan.
The incident would result in a lawsuit from Belzer in opposition to Hogan, Mr. T, Vince McMahon and WWE (which was often called World Wrestling Federation on the time), in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter. Belzer and the corporate would reportedly accept $400,000 in 1990, which he would use for a house in France.
Hollywood Hulk Hogan is proven at WrestleMania X8. (George Pimentel / WireImage / File)
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Belzer named the house Chez Hogan.
“He got here very near killing me,” Belzer advised broadcaster Roy Firestone in 1990. “I used to be advised by a sports activities medication professional that if I had fallen a number of inches both approach I might have been crippled for all times, I might have been useless.”
Belzer originated within the function of Munch on NBC’s “Murder: Life on the Road” in 1993, later reprising the character on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Individuals journal reported that he appeared in practically 330 episodes of “SVU” between 1999 and 2013 and made two further cameos in 2014 and 2016.
Comic Richard Belzer attends the “Django Unchained” premiere in New York on Dec. 11, 2012. (Reuters / Andrew Kelly / File)
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He’s survived by his spouse, Harlee McBride. They married in 1985. The pair share no organic kids, however McBride has two from a earlier marriage, Jessica and Shannon Benton.
Fox Information’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
