{"id":19613,"date":"2012-08-23T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=19613"},"modified":"2012-08-23T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:29:22","slug":"elliot-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/08\/elliot-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliot Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19616\" title=\"Schmitter082312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Schmitter082312.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biff Elliot<\/strong>, best-known to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans for his role in the original series&#8217; <em>The Devil in the Dark<\/em>, died last week at the age of eighty-nine of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot played the miner Schmitter in the episode, who met a grisly end courtesy of the Horta.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The actor was best-known to the public in general for his role as detective Mike Hammer in 1953&#8217;s <em>I, the Jury<\/em>. He went on to appear in many classic war films from the 1950s and 1960s, including <em>PT 109, Pork Chop Hill, Between Heaven and Hell<\/em> and <em>The Enemy Below<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n<p>Television appearances included show such as <em>Star Trek, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 77 Sunset Strip, The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em>, and <em>Mission: Impossible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition to acting, Elliot was also a radio sportscaster for CBS Radio, where he covered Los Angeles sports.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot is survived by his wife Connie as well as by various nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biff Elliot, best-known to Star Trek fans for his role in the original series&#8217; The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[4682,4688,4685],"class_list":["post-19613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-elliot","tag-schmitter","tag-the-devil-in-the-dark"],"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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19613","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=19613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19619,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19613\/revisions\/19619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}