{"id":79205,"date":"2024-02-27T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-acting-icon-dead-aged-87\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:36:24","slug":"butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-acting-icon-dead-aged-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-acting-icon-dead-aged-87\/","title":{"rendered":"&apos;Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid&apos; acting icon dead aged 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-02-27\" datetime=\"1709058984\" pubdate=\"\">27 February 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u2019 actor Charles Dierkop has died aged 87.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">\u2018Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u2019 actor Charles Dierkop has died aged 87<\/p>\n<p>Also best known for his roles in \u2018The Sting\u2019 and \u2018Police Woman\u2019, the Hollywood veteran passed away on Sunday (25.02.24) in the wake of a heart attack and a bout of pneumonia, his daughter Lynn has told The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>The publication added Charles died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, California.<\/p>\n<p>Born Charles Richard Dierkop in 1936 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the actor also famously featured alongside Rod Steiger in 1964\u2019s \u2018The Pawnbroker\u2019 and played a gangster in the 1967 mob movie \u2018The St. Valentine\u2019s Day Massacre\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Charles landed the part of outlaw George \u2018Flat Nose\u2019 Curry in \u2018Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u2019 alongside Paul Newman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/robert-redford\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,robert-redford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Redford<\/a> who played the movie\u2019s titular gunslingers.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also worked alongside Newman in 1961\u2019s \u2018The Hustler\u2019, and again on the 1973 con artist classic \u2018The Sting\u2019, in which Charles played bodyguard Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>\nRecalling how he landed the part of \u2018Flat Nose\u2019, Charles \u2013 who broke his nose several times in fights as a youth \u2013 said in 2018: \u201cMy agent was on a plane reading a script and it says, \u2018Flat Nose Curry\u2019\u2026 I think I have someone in mind. So I got an interview with (\u2018The Sting\u2019 director) George Roy Hill and got cast, quite simply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nCharles also had a string of TV roles, in shows including \u2018Star Trek\u2019, \u2018The Andy Griffith Show\u2019 and \u2018Police Woman\u2019 with Angie Dickinson, on which he played Detective Pete Royston.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also made an appearance in R.E.M.\u2019s 1992 music video for their \u2018Man on the Moon\u2019 hit \u2013 with Charles seen in the promo sitting in a pub.<\/p>\n<p>\nCharles was married to Joan Addis from 1958 until their divorce in 1974, and the couple \u2013 who met at the American Foundation of Dramatic Arts \u2013 had two children: son Charles Jr, who died in 1990 aged 29, and daughter Lynn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/butch-cassidy-sundance-kid-acting-icon-dead-aged-87-1395311.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 February 2024 \u2018Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u2019 actor Charles Dierkop has died aged 87. \u2018Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u2019 actor Charles Dierkop has died aged 87 Also best known for his roles in \u2018The Sting\u2019 and \u2018Police Woman\u2019, the Hollywood veteran passed away on Sunday (25.02.24) in the wake of a heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6688,6690,6684,6685,6686,6689,6691,1983,6687],"class_list":{"0":"post-79205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-angie-dickinson","9":"tag-charles-jr-dierkop","10":"tag-charles-richard-dierkop","11":"tag-george-flat-nose-curry","12":"tag-george-roy-hill","13":"tag-joan-addis","14":"tag-lynn-dierkop","15":"tag-paul-newman","16":"tag-robert-redford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79205","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=79205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}