“Goodbye my dear, dear friend. I will miss you, your unique light, and your singular take on this strange world,” Mariska Hargitay wrote.
On Feb. 19, Universal Television and NBC issued a statement confirming the actor had died.
After learning about Belzer’s death, many of his former “SVU” cast members took to social media to celebrate his legacy.“Goodbye my dear, dear friend. I will miss you, your unique light, and your singular take on this strange world,” she wrote in a statement. “I first worked with Richard on the ‘Law & Order’/ ‘Homicide’ crossover and loved the character so much,” Wolf recalled. “I told Tom that I wanted to make him one of the original characters on ‘SVU.’ The rest is history.”
Dean Winters, who has appeared in over 30 episodes of “SVU” from 1999 to 2019 as Detective Brian Cassidy,” shared aWinters explained that the two became friends back in 1992 and their friendship grew when he booked his first role on “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
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