{"id":26901,"date":"2023-03-02T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26901"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:08:38","slug":"black-lagoon-gill-man-dead-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26901","title":{"rendered":"Black Lagoon &#8220;Gill Man&#8221; dead at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-snippet fontset1 scale3\">\n<article class=\"art\">\n<header>\n<hgroup>\n<h1 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\">Black Lagoon actor dead at 93<\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n<ul class=\"art-byline\">\n<li class=\"art-source\" data-bind=\"text: issueTitle\">Regina Leader-Post, <time data-bind=\"text: shortDateString\">2 Mar 2023<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<div data-bind=\"foreach: articleBlocks\">\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gill_Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26902 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gill_Man-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gill_Man-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gill_Man.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a>Ricou Browning, who starred as The Gill Man<\/strong> in the 1954 movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, died Monday of natural causes. He was 93. Browning reprised Gill Man for the sequels Re<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gill-Man-2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26903 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gill-Man-2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>venge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). His other acting credits include the 1958 TV show Sea Hunt, and as a stuntman he worked on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). Browning was the creative force behind the 1963 Flipper movie and subsequent TV show. He directed on that show and directed scenes in films including Thunderball and Caddyshack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">See trailer for the movie Here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046876\/\">https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046876\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricou_Browning\">READ biography from wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Lagoon actor dead at 93 Regina Leader-Post, 2 Mar 2023 Ricou Browning, who starred as The Gill Man in the 1954 movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, died Monday of natural causes. He was 93. Browning reprised Gill Man for the sequels Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=26901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Lagoon &#8220;Gill Man&#8221; dead at 93<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1165],"tags":[1704,1705],"class_list":["post-26901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary","tag-black-lagoon","tag-ricou-browning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26905,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions\/26905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}