{"id":35747,"date":"2015-04-09T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35747"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:13:53","slug":"geoffrey-lewis-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/09\/geoffrey-lewis-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Lewis, 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/geoffrey-lewis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35745\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/geoffrey-lewis-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"geoffrey lewis\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>If you grew up watching films in the 1970s, particularly westerns or films starring Clint Eastwood, then Geoffrey Lewis&#8217;s face will be familiar to you. The gifted character actor died of natural causes at his home on Tuesday. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis got his start acting in 1970 with guest appearances in television shows such as <strong>Bonanza<\/strong>, <strong>The High Chapparal <\/strong>and <strong>The Young Lawyers<\/strong>. His rugged, malleable features became a go-to actor for westerns of the period, from television offerings (<strong>Gunsmoke<\/strong>, <strong>Alias Smith and Jones<\/strong>) to big screen fare (<strong>The Culpepper Cattle Co., Bad Company<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>In 1973, Lewis was cast in another western, this one the second directorial effort by an actor turned director. That film was <strong>High Plains Drifter<\/strong> and the actor\/director is Clint Eastwood. It marked the first of seven films Lewis and Eastwood would work on together over the next 24 years, the last being Eastwood&#8217;s directorial effort, <strong>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of his partnership with Eastwood, Lewis also appeared on the big screen in films such as <strong>The Great Waldo Pepper<\/strong>, <strong>Heaven&#8217;s Gate, Night of the Comet<\/strong>,<strong> Fletch Lives!<\/strong>, <strong>Double Impact<\/strong>, <strong>Maverick<\/strong> and <strong>The Devil&#8217;s Rejects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was also the father of Oscar nominated actress Juliette Lewis. Father and daughter acted together twice, first in 2000&#8217;s <strong>The Way of the Gun<\/strong>, second in 2004&#8217;s <strong>Renegade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The gifted character actor died of natural causes. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/09\/geoffrey-lewis-79\/\" title=\"Geoffrey Lewis, 79\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,133],"tags":[673,7696,7697,5163,59],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-clint-eastwood","9":"tag-geoffrey-lewis","10":"tag-high-plains-drifter","11":"tag-juliette-lewis","12":"tag-obituary"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35747"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=35747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}