{"id":18313,"date":"2011-08-10T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=18313"},"modified":"2011-08-10T21:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:22:58","slug":"vale-john-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2011\/08\/10\/vale-john-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; John Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_18319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18319\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18319\" title=\"John Wood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/74677638_131292497374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"259\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Wood - 1930-2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephen Falken is dead. Acclaimed British actor John Wood, who 80&#8217;s nerds might remember as the computer genius Stephen Falken, in the Matthew Broderick sci-fi classic <em>War Games<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wood appeared in numerous Shakespeare productions on stage and screen (his most prominent film role in this regard was with Ian McKellan in <em>Richard III<\/em>, in 1995), including a large amount of television work. Among his film appearances were roles in <em>Ladyhawke<\/em> (again, opposite Matthew Broderick), <em>Jumpin&#8217; Jack Flash<\/em> (with Whoopi Goldberg), <em>Shadowlands<\/em> (with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger), <em>The Madness Of King George<\/em> (a superb period film starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren and Ian Holm, and a film I can&#8217;t recommend highly enough!), <em>The Avengers <\/em>(yes, the one with Ralph and Uma), <em>Chocolat<\/em>, and one of the last Merchant\/Ivory films, <em>The White Countess <\/em>(again with Ralph Feinnes).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the passing of the man who gave us near-nuclear holocaust at the hands of a game of tic-tac-toe, we salute John Wood today. Mr Wood passed away on August 6, aged 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Falken is dead. Acclaimed British actor John Wood, who 80&#8217;s nerds might remember as the computer genuis Steven Falken in the Matthew Broderick sci-fi classic War Games, has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}