{"id":1296,"date":"2023-03-08T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:49:48","slug":"legendary-filmmaker-bert-i-gordon-has-passed-away-at-the-age-of-100-on-march-8th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/03\/legendary-filmmaker-bert-i-gordon-has-passed-away-at-the-age-of-100-on-march-8th-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary filmmaker Bert I. Gordon has passed away at the age of 100, on March 8th, 2023."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Nicknamed \u201cMr. B.I.G.\u201d \u2013 Bert Ira Gordon is an American filmmaker and visual effects artist best remembered for writing and directing science fiction and horror B-movies such as King Dinosaur (1955), Village of the Giants (1965), Empire of the Ants (1977) as well as the CDF classics THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957), EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (1958), WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST (1958), and ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (1958)!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>BERT I. GORDON<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 24, 1922 \u2013 March 8, 2023<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1297\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bert-I-Gordon_RIP-Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Bert I. Gordon\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bert-I-Gordon_RIP-Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bert-I-Gordon_RIP-Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bert-I-Gordon_RIP-Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bert-I-Gordon_RIP-Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bert-I-Gordon_RIP-Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicknamed \u201cMr. B.I.G.\u201d \u2013 Bert Ira Gordon is an American filmmaker and visual effects artist best remembered for writing and directing science fiction and horror B-movies such as King Dinosaur (1955), Village of the Giants (1965), Empire of the Ants (1977) as well as the CDF classics THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957), EARTH VS. THE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1297,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-bertigordon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Bert-I-Gordon_RIP-Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}