{"id":88374,"date":"2017-02-07T21:26:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88374"},"modified":"2017-02-07T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:26:12","slug":"battlestar-galactica-star-richard-hatch-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/07\/battlestar-galactica-star-richard-hatch-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Battlestar Galactica&#8217; star Richard Hatch dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88375\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8608193823_53b109d300_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88375\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8608193823_53b109d300_k.jpg\" alt=\"Actor Richard Hatch, perhaps best known for playing Captain Apollo in the original \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d film and TV series, has died. He was 71. (Photo:  Gage Skidmore\/ Flickr)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8608193823_53b109d300_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8608193823_53b109d300_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8608193823_53b109d300_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/8608193823_53b109d300_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Richard Hatch, perhaps best known for playing Captain Apollo in the original \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d film and TV series, has died. He was 71. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\">Gage Skidmore\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013Actor Richard Hatch, perhaps best known for playing Captain Apollo in the original \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d film and TV series, has died. He was 71.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for the actor says Hatch died Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Manager Michael Kaliski said Hatch&#8217;s son, Paul, was by the actor&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Santa Monica, California, in 1945, Hatch started his career in off-Broadway theatre. After an early role on \u201cAll My Children\u201d in 1970, he worked steadily in television, appearing in such series as \u201cThe Streets of San Francisco,\u201d \u201cDynasty,\u201d \u201cThe Love Boat\u201d and \u201cSanta Barbara.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hatch received a Golden Globe nomination in 1979 for his work on \u201cBattlestar Galactica.\u201d He also appeared in the rebooted \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d TV series from 2004 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Kaliski said Hatch will be remembered for his youthful wonder, passion for creativity and kind heart.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his son, Hatch is survived by his brother, John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013Actor Richard Hatch, perhaps best known for playing Captain Apollo in the original \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d film and TV &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[14824,14825],"class_list":["post-88374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-richard-hatch","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}