{"id":30108,"date":"2022-07-01T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T23:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30108"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T23:48:12","slug":"rip-joseph-turkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30108","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Joseph Turkel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joseph “Joe” Turkel, best known for his roles in The Shinning and Blade Runner died on Monday, June 27, 2022.\u00a0 He was 94 years old.\u00a0 When he was 16 years old, Joe Turkel enlisted in the US Army and served during World War II.\u00a0 After the war, Mr. Turkel decided on an acting career.<\/p>\n

Joe Turkel’s resume contains over 140 credits of television and feature film roles.\u00a0 Some of the television shows that Mr. Turkel appeared on include: The Lone Ranger, Highway Patrol, Sky King, Dragnet, Bat Masterson, Wagon Train, The Untouchables, Combat!, The Andy Griffith Show, The Rat Patrol, Bonanza, Ironside, Land of the Giants, Adam-12, SWAT, Police Story, Kojak, Fantasy Island<\/em> and Miami Vice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some of the feature films in which Joe Turkel appeared include: The Killing, Paths of Glory, The Sand Pebbles, The Shinning<\/em> and Blade Runner<\/em> to name just a few.<\/p>\n

Joseph Turkel had a face you couldn’t forget.\u00a0 As a kid, I remember seeing Mr. Turkel show up on many of the shows I watched.\u00a0 As an adult I began seeing him in films.\u00a0 Usually, Mr. Turkel played a bad guy, but I knew he was a good guy to see in the credits.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Joseph Turkel’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph “Joe” Turkel, best known for his roles in The Shinning and Blade Runner died on Monday, June 27, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-30108","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\/30108","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=30108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30109,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108\/revisions\/30109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}