{"id":11897,"date":"2011-05-02T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11897"},"modified":"2011-05-02T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:24:57","slug":"campbell-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/05\/campbell-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Campbell<\/strong>, best-known to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans for his guest roles in the original series and <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>, passed away late last week.<\/p>\n<p>The eighty-seven year old actor died of natural causes at the Motion Picture &amp; Television Fund hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trelane050211.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11898\" title=\"Trelane050211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trelane050211.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Campbell appeared twice in the original series; once as the powerful yet immature Trelane in <em>The Squire of Gothos<\/em>, and once as the Klingon Koloth in <em>The Trouble With Tribbles<\/em>. Campbell reprised that role almost three decades later in <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine&#8217;s Blood Oath<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1926, Campbell began his acting career in 1950&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Koloth1-050211.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11899\" title=\"Koloth1-050211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Koloth1-050211.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a> <em>The Breaking Point<\/em>. He sang with <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong> in 1956&#8217;s <em>Love Me Tender<\/em> and also appeared in other films, such as <em>The High and the Mighty, Dementia 13<\/em> and <em>Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte<\/em>. Campbell could also be seen on television, with guest roles in <em>Perry Mason, Combat, Medical Center, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Streets of San Francisco, Quincy, M.E., Adam-12, Emergency<\/em> and <em>Ironside<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Koloth2-050211.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11900\" title=\"Koloth2-050211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Koloth2-050211.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>Married in 1952 to <strong>Judith Exner<\/strong>, Campbell was divorced in 1958. He is survived by his third wife, Tereza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Campbell, best-known to Star Trek fans for his guest roles in the original series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2663,2421],"tags":[3623,3619,3620,3622,2853,3621],"class_list":["post-11897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ds9","category-star-trek-tos","tag-blood-oath","tag-campbell","tag-koloth","tag-the-squire-of-gothos","tag-the-trouble-with-tribbles","tag-trelane"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-ds9\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11903,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}