{"id":114615,"date":"2017-01-16T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114615"},"modified":"2017-01-16T09:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:01:52","slug":"actor-dick-gautier-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=114615","title":{"rendered":"Actor Dick Gautier, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GautierDick1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-114627\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GautierDick1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"GautierDick1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GautierDick1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GautierDick1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GautierDick1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Actor Dick Gautier, who gained fame playing an Elvis-like singer in the Broadway musical &#8220;Bye Bye Birdie&#8221; and went on to play Hymie the Robot on TV&#8217;s &#8220;Get Smart,&#8221; has died. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>His publicist Harlan Boll tells The Associated Press that Gautier died Friday at an assisted living facility in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n<p>Gautier, who started out as a standup comic, was nominated for a Tony for his stage turn as Conrad Birdie.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his popular role on &#8220;Get Smart,&#8221; Gautier appeared in films including &#8220;Divorce, American Style,&#8221; &#8221;Billy Jack Goes To Washington&#8221; and &#8220;Fun With Dick And Jane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gautier, who was also a cartoonist, worked as a voice actor for cartoons including &#8220;Transformers&#8221; and &#8220;Smurfs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by three children, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Actor Dick Gautier, who gained fame playing an Elvis-like singer in the Broadway musical &#8220;Bye Bye Birdie&#8221; and went on to play Hymie the Robot on TV&#8217;s &#8220;Get Smart,&#8221; has died. He was 85. His publicist Harlan Boll tells The Associated Press that Gautier died Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114628,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114615\/revisions\/114628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}