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American actor Jon Polito, best known for his work with the Coen Brothers and in television series Homicide<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Character actor Jon Polito got his start on screen in the\u00a0early 80’s, in bit-parts on projects such as Gangster Wars<\/em>, CHUD<\/em> and supporting roles alongside Dustin Hoffman in the television film version of Death Of A Salesman<\/em>. Polito gained prominence through a series of guest roles in television shows such as The Equalizer, Crime Story, Miami Vice<\/em> and Wiseguy<\/em>, while becoming part of the Coen Brother’s regular players with appearances in Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink<\/em> and The Big Lebowski<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mr Polito appeared in the first two seasons of Homicide: Life On The Street<\/em>, in the early 90’s, appeared in Brandon Lee’s final film The Crow<\/em>, guested in NYPD Blue<\/em>, and ran the gamut of small and large screen roles, as well as video games (Lands of Lore III<\/em> is a credited voice role the actor). Among his notable small screen credits were Millennium, Nash Bridges, Batman Beyond<\/em> (animated), The Drew Carey Show, Judging Amy, Ghost Whisperer<\/em> and more recently The Mentalist, Mike & Molly<\/em>, and Castle<\/em>. Other film credits include Mimic 2<\/a>, The Tailor of Panama, View From The Top, Flags Of Our Fathers<\/a>, Gangster Squad<\/em> and Big Eyes<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Jon Polito passed away on September 1, aged 65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American actor Jon Polito, best known for his work with the Coen Brothers and in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":43869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",529,529,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",529,529,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",529,529,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",529,529,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",529,529,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",529,529,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",340,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",24,24,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",48,48,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",96,96,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",150,150,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529.jpg",300,300,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/02-jon-polito-pub.w529.h529-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43866","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=43866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jon](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/polito-lebowski.jpg\")