{"id":19624,"date":"2012-01-29T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=19624"},"modified":"2012-01-29T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T06:30:09","slug":"vale-ian-abercrombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2012\/01\/29\/vale-ian-abercrombie\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Ian Abercrombie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19625\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19625\" title=\"IanAb1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-287x314-custom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"314\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Abercrombie - 1934-2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just wanted to touch base this afternoon with some sad news I learned &#8211; British actor Ian Abercrombie has passed away. Mr Abercrombie was well known in the film industry for playing roles in productions as diverse as <em>Addams Family Values, Firestarter, Army Of Darkness<\/em> (as Wiseman), <em>The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mousehunt<\/em> and lastly, <em>Rango<\/em> (as the voice of Ambrose). Mr Abercrombie was also known for his portrayal of Palpatine (the future Emperor) in the<em> Star Wars<\/em> animated series, <em>The Clone Wars<\/em>. As well as his film work, he also appeared in a number of television series, in cameo roles for<em> The Nanny, Desperate Housewives, Seinfeld, Airwolf<\/em> and <em>Babylon 5<\/em>, as well as a recurring role in <em>The Wizards Of Waverly Place<\/em>. His best known role was that of Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne&#8217;s butler, in the short-lived television series <em>Birds Of Prey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Abercrombie passed away on January 26th, aged 77.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Abercrombie was well known in the film industry for playing roles in productions as diverse as Addams Family Values, Firestarter, Army Of Darkness (as Wiseman), The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mousehunt and lastly, Rango (as the voice of Ambrose).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":19625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3.jpg",375,409,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-375x280.jpg",375,280,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-375x365.jpg",375,365,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3.jpg",375,409,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3.jpg",375,409,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3.jpg",375,409,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3.jpg",375,409,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3.jpg",375,409,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3.jpg",312,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ian_ab3-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"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":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19624","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=19624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}