{"id":115252,"date":"2017-01-27T07:13:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=115252"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:53:52","slug":"actor-mike-connors-mannix-passes-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=115252","title":{"rendered":"Actor Mike Connors, &#8220;Mannix,&#8221;  passes, 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-115253\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ConnorsMike.jpg\" alt=\"ConnorsMike\" width=\"152\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ConnorsMike.jpg 152w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ConnorsMike-123x175.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Mike Connors, who played a hard-hitting private eye on the long-running TV series &#8220;Mannix,&#8221; has died. He was 91.<\/p>\n<p>His son-in-law, Mike Condon, says the actor died Thursday afternoon at a Los Angeles hospital from recently-diagnosed leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mannix&#8221; debuted on CBS in 1967 and ran for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers were intrigued by the smartly dressed, well-spoken Los Angeles detective who could still mix it up with thugs. Episodes normally climaxed with a brawl.<\/p>\n<p>Connors once said that until &#8220;Mannix,&#8221; TV private investigators were hard-nosed and cynical, while Mannix &#8220;got emotionally involved&#8221; in his cases.<\/p>\n<p>Connors also starred in the short-lived TV shows &#8220;Tightrope&#8221; and &#8220;Today&#8217;s FBI.&#8221; His movie roles included &#8220;Sudden Fear&#8221; with Joan Crawford, &#8220;Island in the Sky,&#8221; &#8221;The Ten Commandments,&#8221; and a remake of &#8220;Stagecoach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Mike Connors, who played a hard-hitting private eye on the long-running TV series &#8220;Mannix,&#8221; has died. He was 91. His son-in-law, Mike Condon, says the actor died Thursday afternoon at a Los Angeles hospital from recently-diagnosed leukemia. &#8220;Mannix&#8221; debuted on CBS in 1967 and ran for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115252","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\/115252","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=115252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115255,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115252\/revisions\/115255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}