And it wasn't "Benson" or "Stabler." The final round actually came down to "Fin Tutuola" versus "John Munch." And the winner was: "Tutuola," the veteran SVU detective played by rapper Ice-T.

Richard Belzer will return on 'Law & Order: SVU' Richard Belzer will reprise John Munch on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Season 17 in May. Dann Florek departing 'Law and Order: SVU' after ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Over the course of 23 years, actor Richard Belzer has played Detective John Munch on 10 different TV shows. You might know him best from "Law & Order: Special ...

SVU” and other TV shows. In each of those series, he played a presumptively Jewish detective named John Munch whose biography overlapped significantly with Belzer’s own. Belzer was born in ...