{"id":73574,"date":"2018-07-04T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=73574"},"modified":"2018-07-04T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:51:34","slug":"film-actor-derrick-o-connor-dead-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=73574","title":{"rendered":"Film Actor Derrick O\u2019 Connor Dead at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=73574\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=73574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-73575 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pieter_Vorsteidt_-_Profile-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pieter_Vorsteidt_-_Profile-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pieter_Vorsteidt_-_Profile-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Pieter_Vorsteidt_-_Profile.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>By Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Popular character actor Derrick O\u2019 Connor who portrayed brilliantly a vicious South African bad guy in Lethal Weapon 2 and appeared in three films for Terry Gilliam, died June 29th at the age of 77.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor died from pneumonia in Santa Barbara, publicist Jane Ayer announced.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his various roles were Sarah Miles&#8217; neighbor Mac in John Boorman&#8217;s autobiographical World War II period piece Hope and Glory in 1987.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He also played the theologian Thomas Aquinas opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in End of Days in 1999; Father Everett, a blind superhero&#8217;s confidante, in Daredevil in 2003; and an aspiring buccaneer in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report extends our condolences to the O\u2019Connor family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Brad Berkwitt Popular character actor Derrick O\u2019 Connor who portrayed brilliantly a vicious South African bad guy in Lethal Weapon 2 and appeared in three films for Terry Gilliam, died June 29th at the age of 77. O&#8217;Connor died from pneumonia in Santa Barbara, publicist Jane Ayer announced. Some of his various roles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[18473],"class_list":["post-73574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-film-actor-derrick-o-connor-dead-at-77"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73574"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}