{"id":10280,"date":"2009-12-11T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T02:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=10280"},"modified":"2009-12-11T18:34:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T09:04:52","slug":"vale-gene-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/12\/11\/vale-gene-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Gene Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10281\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10281\" title=\"c-40-Gene Barry web\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/c-40-Gene-Barry-web.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Barry - 1919-2009\" width=\"228\" height=\"288\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Barry - 1919-2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Classic film buffs will be sad to learn today that Gene Barry, star of 50&#8217;s sci-fi flick <em>War of The Worlds<\/em> (which was remade by Spielberg a few years ago, and allowed Barry a short cameo at that films conclusion) has passed away. Barry was 90.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gene Barry was born in New York as Eugene Klass, in 1919. His early performing career was on Broadway and vaudeville shows, and wan nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Georges in <em>La Cage Aux Folles<\/em>, in 1983. As well as his iconic role in the <em>War Of The Worlds<\/em> film, he was a noted television actor, appearing in shows as diverse as <em>Our Miss Brooks<\/em>, <em>The Name of the Game<\/em>, and <em>Burke&#8217;s Law<\/em>, for which he won a Golden Globe in 1965. He also appeared in films like <em>Thunder Road<\/em> and<em> The Atomic City<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gene Barry died at a Woodland Hills, <em>CA<\/em> rest home, of undisclosed causes, yesterday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10282\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10282\" title=\"war_worlds_pal_4_x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/war_worlds_pal_4_x.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Robinson and Gene Barry in 1953's War Of The Worlds\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/war_worlds_pal_4_x.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/war_worlds_pal_4_x-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne Robinson and Gene Barry in 1953&#39;s War Of The Worlds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic film buffs will be sad to learn today that Gene Barry, star of 50&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}