{"id":24943,"date":"2020-12-30T08:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24943"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:42:15","slug":"rip-william-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24943","title":{"rendered":"RIP: William Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z123020rip_william_link.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"481\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">William Link, best known as co-creator of <em>Columbo<\/em>, passed away on Sunday, December 27th from congestive heart failure.&nbsp; Mr. Link was 87.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">William Link often partnered with Richard Levinson to write, create and produce everything from radio scripts to teleplays and feature films.&nbsp; In addition to co-creating <em>Columbo<\/em>, Link along with Levinson and Peter S. Fischer created the popular and long-running television program <em>Murder, She Wrote<\/em>.&nbsp; Link and Levinson also created <em>Mannix<\/em> in addition to other tv series.&nbsp; Link and Levinson&#8217;s television movies included <em>My Sweet Charlie<\/em>, <em>That Certain Summer<\/em>, and (my favorite) <em>The Execution of Private Slovak<\/em> starring a young Martin Sheen. Their scripts for feature films included <em>The Hindenburg<\/em>; <em>Rollercoaster<\/em>; and Steve McQueen\u2019s last film <em>The Hunter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Link and Levinson won numerous awards throughout their long partnership including two Emmys, two Golden Globes, four Edgar Allan Poe Awards and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to William Link&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Link, best known as co-creator of Columbo, passed away on Sunday, December 27th from congestive heart failure.&nbsp; Mr. Link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,17,51,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24947,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943\/revisions\/24947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}