{"id":550,"date":"2002-07-27T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2002-07-27T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/07\/27\/550.html"},"modified":"2002-07-27T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2002-07-27T21:00:04","slug":"rip-leo-mckern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/07\/27\/rip-leo-mckern\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Leo McKern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitematrix.net\/columns\/langford\/index.html\">Ansible<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/Name?leo%20mckern\">Leo McKern<\/a> died a few days ago.  He was best known in sf circles as the most memorable Number Two in <cite>The Prisoner<\/cite> and as the monk (Father Imperius) in <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Details?0089457\">Ladyhawke<\/a>;<\/cite> in fact, he had my favorite line in the latter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Imperius<\/strong>: What do you want?<br>\n<strong>Phillipe<\/strong>: I was told to bring you this hawk, father. It's been wounded.<br>\n<strong>Imperius<\/strong>: Good shot! Bring it in, we'll dine together.<br>\n<strong>Phillipe<\/strong>: We can't eat this hawk, father!<br>\n<strong>Imperius<\/strong>: What? Oh God, is it Lent again already?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But he also featured prominently in many other movies and TV shows.  I suspect he's best known outside of sf circles for being the star of <cite>Rumpole of the Bailey,<\/cite> or possibly for his excellent work as Gloucester in the BBC's <cite>King Lear.<\/cite>  He also appeared in <cite>Help!,<\/cite> <cite>A Man for All Seasons,<\/cite> and <cite>The Mouse that Roared,<\/cite> among others.<\/p>\n<p>I haven't seen anything he was in since <cite>Ladyhawke,<\/cite> not that there's been much.  He was in his sixties then, and 82 when he died.  I see he played Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (referred to as \"Q\" in <cite>84 Charing Cross Road<\/cite>) in a TV movie in '91; wonder if it was any good.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  I'm sorry to see him go.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just learned from Ansible that Leo McKern died a few days ago. He was best known in sf circles as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}