{"id":11418,"date":"2011-12-02T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T03:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11418"},"modified":"2011-12-02T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T03:04:57","slug":"bill-mckinney-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11418","title":{"rendered":"Bill McKinney, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VAN NUYS, CA–Actor Bill McKinney, perhaps best remembered the mountain man who assaulted Ned Beatty\u2019s character in 1972’s “Deliverance,” died here Dec. 1 of cancer of the esophagus. McKinney also starred in several Clint Eastwood films, 1982?s “First Blood” and 1999?s “The Green Mile.” He was 80.
\nMSTies will remember his performances as Sheriff Kyle in the movie in episode 322- MASTER NINJA I and Chief Wilson in the movie in episode 1008- FINAL JUSTICE. They will likely also remember his good-natured comments in a bonus feature of “Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Vol XX.”
\nHe also made appearances on various TV shows, including “The Monkees,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “Colombo,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “Hunter,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Walker, Texas Ranger” and “Baywatch.”
\n\u201cHe is survived by son Clinton, along with several ex-wives,\u201d according to a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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VAN NUYS, CA–Actor Bill McKinney, perhaps best remembered the mountain man who assaulted Ned Beatty\u2019s character in 1972’s “Deliverance,” died here Dec. 1 of cancer of the esophagus. McKinney also starred in several Clint Eastwood films, 1982?s “First Blood” and 1999?s “The Green Mile.” He was 80. MSTies will remember his performances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}