{"id":22637,"date":"2016-05-24T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=22637"},"modified":"2016-05-24T13:09:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:09:05","slug":"burt-kwouk-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=22637","title":{"rendered":"Burt Kwouk, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/burt-kwouk.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/burt-kwouk-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"burt-kwouk\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/burt-kwouk-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/burt-kwouk-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/burt-kwouk.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a> LONDON&#8211;Burt Kwouk, perhaps best remembered as Inspector Clouseau\u2019s manservant Cato Fong in seven of Blake Edwards\u2019 \u201cPink Panther\u201d movies, has died here. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Other movie appearances in his five-decade career included James Bond films \u201cGoldfinger\u201d and \u201cYou Only Live Twice,\u201d as well as Fred Schepisi\u2019s \u201cPlenty,\u201d Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cEmpire of the Sun\u201d and Roger Spottiswoode\u2019s \u201cAir America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MSTies will remember that he appeared in the movie <em>The Brides of Fu Manchu<\/em> (his character&#8217;s name in that movie was Feng), scenes from which were reused in the movie in episode 323- CASTLE OF FU MANCHU. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/global\/burt-kwouk-cato-pink-panther-dies-dead-1201781865\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety has the obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Timmy for the heads up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/> LONDON&#8211;Burt Kwouk, perhaps best remembered as Inspector Clouseau\u2019s manservant Cato Fong in seven of Blake Edwards\u2019 \u201cPink Panther\u201d movies, has died here. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Other movie appearances in his five-decade career included James Bond films \u201cGoldfinger\u201d and \u201cYou Only Live Twice,\u201d as well as Fred Schepisi\u2019s \u201cPlenty,\u201d Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cEmpire of [&#8230;]<\/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-22637","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\/22637","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=22637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22640,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions\/22640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}