{"id":741383,"date":"2013-03-12T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=220548"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:35:46","slug":"willy-switkes-dies-character-actor-was-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741383","title":{"rendered":"Willy Switkes Dies; Character Actor Was 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.famousdead.com\/willy-switkes\/\">Willy Switkes<\/a>, a character actor who had minor roles on-screen in the 80s, has died at the age of 83.<\/p>\n<p>According to an Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/willy-switkes-character-actor-who-appeared-in-tootsie-taxi-driver-dies-in-md-at-83\/2013\/03\/11\/99a6d0aa-8a8a-11e2-a88e-461ffa2e34e4_story.html\">report<\/a>, Switkes died of colon cancer on March 7, 2013 at a hospice in Rockville, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Switkes most memorable roles, according to the report, are his unidentified characters in movies such as <em>Tootsie<\/em> and <em>Taxi Driver<\/em>.  He has two IMDB credits for acting, one for his role as &#8220;Man at Cab&#8221; in <em>Tootsie<\/em>, and one for playing the &#8220;Mint Buyer&#8221; in <em>Playing For Keeps<\/em>.  The AP states that he also had uncredited roles in <em>The French Connection<\/em> and Woody Allen&#8217;s <em>Bananas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his film work, the AP states Switkes had a stage career that included roles in Broadway productions such as <em>The Cherry Orchard<\/em> and <em>A Thousand Clowns<\/em>.  During a 1960 tour of <em>Once Upon a Mattress<\/em> he was also reportedly the understudy to Buster Keaton.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=9s_Fv53Oujk:PfGtgVHGM5A:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/9s_Fv53Oujk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willy Switkes, a character actor who had minor roles on-screen in the 80s, has died at the age of 83. According to an Associated Press report, Switkes died of colon cancer on March 7, 2013 at a hospice in Rockville, Maryland. Switkes most memorable roles, according to the report, are his unidentified characters in movies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36RN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}