{"id":909501,"date":"2026-09-29T07:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909501\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:06:15","slug":"saved-by-the-bell-star-dennis-haskins-who-played-principal-richard-belding-dies-aged-75-no-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909501\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved By The Bell star Dennis Haskins, who played Principal Richard Belding, dies aged 75: No cause of death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Haskins, the beloved actor who played Principal Richard Belding on Saved by the Bell for more than 10 years, has died aged 75.<\/p>\n<p>Haskins\u2019 agent Jay Schachter announced his death in a statement released to the media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actor Dennis Haskins poses for portrait at the Saved By the Max Los Angeles opening night pop up on May 1, 2018 in West Hollywood, California.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d5d5e18f2a458d8800253900812412f5c0d5558b8e98843fd8990f66d86cad0e.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Actor Dennis Haskins has died aged 75.\u00a0Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr. Belding, and those of us who got to know Dennis loved him even more,\u201d Schachter said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great person, and he loved, I mean absolutely LOVED his fans. He always had time for them, no matter what. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was my client and dear friend for over 20 years, and I will miss him terribly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schachter did not share details about Haskins\u2019 cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1950, the American actor got his start on The Dukes of Hazzard series before finding mainstream success as stern Mr Belding on Saved by the Bell.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t an easy role to land; Haskins had to audition for the sitcom seven times before he was finally cast.<\/p>\n<p>Known for the iconic catchphrase \u201cHey, hey, hey, what is going on here?\u201c, Haskins became a staple of the series, which ran from 1989 until 1993.<\/p>\n<p>He continued in the role in the Saved by the Bell: The New Class spinoff, which aired for a further seven years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actor Dennis Haskins played the principal on Saved By the Bell.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b7a80e4935025d9a471fad894e8e570bb5558470497175629bd7947218a1ab9f.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Dennis Haskins with his Saved By the Bell co-stars.\u00a0NBC<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade after the spinoff wrapped, Haskins came back as Mr Belding for one last appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he reunited with former cast mates Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Elizabeth Berkley, Mario Lopez and Tiffani Thiessen.<\/p>\n<p>Haskins\u2019 other acting credits include roles in TV shows like New Girl, Mad Men and It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and films like A Million Ways to Die in the West.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his son,\u00a0Dustin Haskins.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the cast of Saved By The Bell lost another beloved co-star just five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Diamond, who played Samuel \u201cScreech\u201d Powers alongside Haskins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/dustin-diamond-saved-by-the-bell-actor-dies-at-44-20210202-p5pcyv.html\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed away suddenly in 2021 from lung cancer<\/a>. He was 44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dennis Haskins, the beloved actor who played Principal Richard Belding on Saved by the Bell for more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-909501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}