{"id":27388,"date":"2021-04-17T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27388"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:50:36","slug":"rip-felix-silla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27388","title":{"rendered":"RIP &#8211;  Felix Silla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z041721rip_felix_silla.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" \/><br \/>\nFelix Silla, whose acting career spanned 55 years, died yesterday after after a battle with pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 While you may not instantly recognize Felix Silla&#8217;s name, you&#8217;ll be surprised at the number of roles you saw him play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of his most famous was as Cousin Itt in the tv series <em>The Adams Family<\/em>.\u00a0 That wasn&#8217;t the only popular show that featured an appearance by Felix Silla.\u00a0 He also had roles on: <em>Bonanza<\/em>, <em>The Monkees<\/em>, <em>Petticoat Junction<\/em>, <em>The Girl from UNCLE<\/em> and <em>Star Trek<\/em>.\u00a0 Sila appeared in the movies <em>Point Blank<\/em> and <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em>.\u00a0 He followed those roles as a regular cast member of <em>HR Puffinstuff<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other television highlights include: <em>Bewitched<\/em>,<em> Night Gallery<\/em>, <em>Mary Hartman<\/em>, <em>Battlestar Gallactica<\/em>, a regular role on <em>Buck Rogers in the 25th Century<\/em>, <em>Mork &amp; Mindy<\/em>, and <em>Married with Children.<\/em>\u00a0 Movie highlights include: <em>The Black Bird<\/em>, <em>Demon Seed<\/em>, <em>Kentucky Fried Movie<\/em>, <em>Under the Rainbow<\/em>, <em>The Sting II<\/em>, <em>Meatballs II<\/em>, <em>Spaceballs<\/em> and <em>Batman Returns<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Felix Silla&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Silla, whose acting career spanned 55 years, died yesterday after after a battle with pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 While you may<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/27388","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=27388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27389,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27388\/revisions\/27389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}