{"id":32691,"date":"2026-10-22T17:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=32691"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:59:52","slug":"obit-watch-october-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=32691","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: October 22, 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/tom-skerritt-dead-picket-fences-alien-mash-1236738429\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Skerritt<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/22\/arts\/television\/tom-skerritt-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KlE.eUi5.J3gjH0MVM-h7&#038;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NYT<\/strong><\/a> (share link, may require).<\/p>\n<p>He was 93, and had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000643\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_in_0_q_tom%20sketr\" target=\"_blank\">a heck of a career<\/a>. A fair amount of genre stuff, some cop\/PI stuff, he was Sheriff Bannerman in Cronenberg&#8217;s &#8220;The Dead Zone&#8221; (which I thought was a pretty good King adaptation), he did four episodes of &#8220;The F.B.I.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and he was &#8220;Robert W. Palmer&#8221; the simply irresistible political candidate who has sold his soul to Satan in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0621541\/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_epp_sm_1\" target=\"_blank\">The Devil&#8217;s Platform<\/a>&#8221; episode of &#8220;Kolchak: The Night Stalker&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and yes, he did do a &#8220;Mannix&#8221;. (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0641707\/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_epp_sm_1\" target=\"_blank\">Warning: Live Blueberries<\/a>&#8220;, season 1, episode 7. He was &#8220;Morgan Carpenter&#8221;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Skerritt. NYT (share link, may require). He was 93, and had a heck of a career. A fair amount of genre stuff, some cop\/PI stuff, he was Sheriff Bannerman in Cronenberg&#8217;s &#8220;The Dead Zone&#8221; (which I thought was a pretty good King adaptation), he did four episodes of &#8220;The F.B.I.&#8221;&#8230; &#8230;and he was &#8220;Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,195,31,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-mannix","category-movies","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32697,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32691\/revisions\/32697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}