{"id":259044,"date":"2026-08-22T18:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/actor-michael-wright-star-of-the-five-heartbeats-and-v-dies-at-70\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:37:16","slug":"actor-michael-wright-star-of-the-five-heartbeats-and-v-dies-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/actor-michael-wright-star-of-the-five-heartbeats-and-v-dies-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Michael Wright, Star of \u2018The Five Heartbeats\u2019 and \u2018V,\u2019 Dies at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael Wright, an actor known for his roles in \u201cThe Five Heartbeats,\u201d \u201cStreamers,\u201d \u201cThe Principal\u201d and \u201cV,\u201d has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 70.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p3XsVr10im\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/p3XsVr10im<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/byipoQQvVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/byipoQQvVQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2091198724861202504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actor Michael Wright has passed away at the age of 70. He died on August 17 from heart failure.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Susan Wright, announced his death in a post shared Friday evening on Instagram. \u201cIt is with profound sadness and an unimaginable heaviness in my heart that I share the passing of my beloved husband, Michael Wright,\u201d her statement read.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in more than 50 movies and TV shows, including the films \u201cThe Five Heartbeats,\u201d Robert Altman\u2019s Vietnam drama \u201cStreamers,\u201d \u201cSugar Hill\u201d and \u201cThe Wanderers.\u201d His TV credits include the 1980s sci-fi series \u201cV\u201d and HBO\u2019s \u201cOz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2091198724861202504?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132762408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Wright, an actor known for his roles in \u201cThe Five Heartbeats,\u201d \u201cStreamers,\u201d \u201cThe Principal\u201d and \u201cV,\u201d has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 70.https:\/\/t.co\/p3XsVr10im pic.twitter.com\/byipoQQvVQ \u2014 Variety (@Variety) August 22, 2026 Actor Michael Wright has passed away at the age of 70. He died on August 17 from heart failure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}