{"id":2984,"date":"2024-04-19T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2024-04-27T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T08:13:16","slug":"happy-birthday-rhodes-reason-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/04\/happy-birthday-rhodes-reason-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Rhodes Reason!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">April 19, 1930 \u2013 December 26, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born in Glendale, CA \u2013 American actor Rhodes Reason appeared in more than two hundred roles in television, film, and stage \u2014 starring in the television series White Hunter (1958), and as Sheriff Will Mayberry in the ABC drama series Bus Stop (1961). Mr. Reason also guest starred on series such as Maverick (1957), Tombstone Territory (1957), 77 Sunset Strip (1958), Bourbon Street Beat (1960), The Time Tunnel (1966), Perry Mason (1966), The Big Valley (1967), The Lucy Show (1967), Star Trek (1968), and Here&#8217;s Lucy (1968); with feature film appearances in Yellowstone Kelly (1959) and A Fever in the Blood (1961), as well as starring in the Broadway musical Annie, in the early 1980s, playing Daddy Warbucks \u2014 but it is his starring role as Commander Carl Nelson in the 1967 Toho-Rankin\/Bass science-fiction kaiju film KING KONG ESCAPES that secures his status among the esteemed CDF Alumni.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1514\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Rhodes-Reason_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Rhodes Reason \u2022 April 19, 1930 \u2013 December 26, 2014\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Rhodes-Reason_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Rhodes-Reason_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Rhodes-Reason_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Rhodes-Reason_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Rhodes-Reason_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19, 1930 \u2013 December 26, 2014 Born in Glendale, CA \u2013 American actor Rhodes Reason appeared in more than two hundred roles in television, film, and stage \u2014 starring in the television series White Hunter (1958), and as Sheriff Will Mayberry in the ABC drama series Bus Stop (1961). Mr. Reason also guest starred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1514,"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":[89,15,7,5,6,32,34,348,378,469,55],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-happybirthday","tag-kingkong","tag-kingkongescapes","tag-rankinbass","tag-rhodesreason","tag-tohostudios"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Rhodes-Reason_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","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=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}