{"id":2718,"date":"2024-02-16T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:24:06","slug":"happy-birthday-ricou-browning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/02\/happy-birthday-ricou-browning\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Ricou Browning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">February 16, 1930 \u2013 February 27, 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Ricou Ren Browning in Fort Pierce, Florida; Mr. Browning was an American stunt performer, filmmaker and actor who worked as second unit director, stunt coordinator and underwater sequence director on a number of features, including films such as \u2013 Around the World Under the Sea (1966), Island of the Lost (1967), Hello Down There (1969), Caddyshack (1980), as well as the James Bond films Thunderball (1965) and Never Say Never Again (1983).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Browing famously portrayed the iconic Gill-man in underwater scenes of the CDF classics CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955) and THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US (1956).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2719\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ricou-Browning_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ricou Browning (February 16, 1930 \u2013 February 27, 2023) photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ricou-Browning_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ricou-Browning_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ricou-Browning_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ricou-Browning_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ricou-Browning_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 16, 1930 \u2013 February 27, 2023 Born Ricou Ren Browning in Fort Pierce, Florida; Mr. Browning was an American stunt performer, filmmaker and actor who worked as second unit director, stunt coordinator and underwater sequence director on a number of features, including films such as \u2013 Around the World Under the Sea (1966), Island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"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":[15,7,5,6,81,408,82,407,79,80],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-creaturefromtheblacklagoon","tag-flipper","tag-lagoon","tag-ricoubrowning","tag-thecreature","tag-thegillman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ricou-Browning_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","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=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}