{"id":41705,"date":"2013-08-17T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T11:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=41705"},"modified":"2013-08-17T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T11:19:48","slug":"august-schellenberg-deadfamous-canadian-actor-dies-age-77-breaking-news-41705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/august-schellenberg-deadfamous-canadian-actor-dies-age-77-breaking-news-41705\/","title":{"rendered":"August Schellenberg Dead:Famous Canadian actor dies age 77 \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/August-Schellenberg-Died-Age-77.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41715\" title=\"August-Schellenberg-Died-Age-77\" alt=\"August-Schellenberg-Died-Age-77\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/August-Schellenberg-Died-Age-77.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/August-Schellenberg-Died-Age-77.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/August-Schellenberg-Died-Age-77-234x220.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/August-Schellenberg-Died-Age-77-383x360.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Actor August Schellenberg, who starred in the Free Willy films, has died aged 77.<\/h1>\n<p>The Canadian star&#8217;s agent Jamie Levitt said he died at his Dallas home surrounded by his family. He had been fighting lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Schellenberg appeared in numerous television roles and was in all three Free Willy movies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Chief Sitting Bull in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Levitt said one of Schellenberg&#8217;s last notable works was in 2012, playing the lead in King Lear in an all Canadian cast in at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>She described Schellenberg as a loving family man and an iconic Canadian actor.<\/p>\n<p>The first Free Willy film was released in 1993 and is about a young boy who befriends a captive orca, or killer whale.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor August Schellenberg, who starred in the Free Willy films, has died aged 77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,113,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[57218,57222,57226,57223,57228,57230,3748,57227,57220,57225,57221,57224,16458],"class_list":["post-41705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-artistry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-august-schellenberg","tag-august-schellenberg-dead","tag-august-schellenberg-died-age-77","tag-august-schellenberg-dies","tag-august-schellenberg-has-died","tag-august-schellenberg-movies","tag-canada","tag-canadian-actor-august-schellenberg","tag-canadian-august-schellenberg","tag-free-willy","tag-free-willy-actor-august-schellenberg","tag-free-willy-films","tag-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}