Richard Belzer is being remembered by peers and fans ... "I feel blessed to have known you and adored you and worked with you, side by side, for so many years. "How lucky the angels are to have ...

Richard Belzer, the veteran stand-up comic, actor, talk-show host and author, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. An irrepressible comic, the young Richard drove his teachers wild with his ...

It used to be a regular bit performed by comedian and actor Richard ... how Belzer once accompanied him to say Kaddish for Shaffer’s father at the Carlebach Shul on the Upper West Side.

In a statement shared exclusively with PEOPLE, the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star's family admit they "needed the time to process" after the actor's death "caught us completely off guard ...

(JTA) — Richard Belzer wasn’t just a hard-boiled Jew who rose from a troubled childhood to the top of his field — he played one on TV. Belzer, who died Sunday at 78, was a familiar face ...