{"id":1114,"date":"2026-09-29T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:16:02","slug":"dennis-haskins-mr-belding-on-saved-by-the-bell-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Haskins, Mr. Belding on ‘Saved by the Bell,’ dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAVED BY THE BELL — Season 2 — Pictured: (l-r) Mario Lopez as Alabert Clifford ‘A.C.’ Slater, Dennis Haskins as Mr. Richard Belding, Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zachary ‘Zach’ Morris, Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers — Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank (Nbc\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dennis Haskins, who is best known for his role on the hit sitcom Saved by the Bell<\/em>, has died at 75, his agent confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr. Belding and those of us who got to know Dennis, loved him even more. He was a great person, and he loved, I mean absolutely LOVED his fans. He always had time for them, no matter what,” his agent Jay Schachter said.<\/p>\n

Haskins’ cause of death has not been released.<\/p>\n

He played Principal Richard Belding on three separate shows. First in the Disney Channel show Good Morning, Miss Bliss<\/em> in 1989, which was later recreated into NBC’s Saved by the Bell<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He starred on Saved by the Bell<\/em> through the show’s four-season run, from 1989 to 1993, and later reprised the role for Saved by the Bell: The New Class<\/em>, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000.<\/p>\n

Saved by the Bell<\/em> is among the defining sitcoms of the ’90s, following a group of high school students as they navigate adolescence. Fans of the show will remember Principal Belding’s catchphrase “Hey, hey, hey, what is going on here?”<\/p>\n

The last time Haskins played the famed principal was in 2015 when the cast — Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Elizabeth Berkley, Mario Lopez and Tiffani Thiessen — reunited for a Saved by the Bell<\/em> sketch on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Haskins’ other TV and film roles include appearances on It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Men of a Certain Age, The Bold and the Beautiful, Victorious, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother, New Girl<\/em> and Hot in Cleveland<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAVED BY THE BELL — Season 2 — Pictured: (l-r) Mario Lopez as Alabert Clifford ‘A.C.’ Slater, Dennis Haskins as Mr. Richard Belding, Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zachary ‘Zach’ Morris, Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers — Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}