{"id":3338,"date":"2024-07-08T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:10:39","slug":"happy-birthday-glenn-langan-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/07\/happy-birthday-glenn-langan-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Glenn Langan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">July 8, 1917 \u2013 January 26, 1991<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Langan&#8217;s career as a character actor included over 70 roles in feature films and television, including such shows as The Abbot and Costello Show (1953), Gilligan&#8217;s Island (1966), and Hondo (1967). However, it was his earnest and enduring portrayal as nuclear blast survivor Lt. Col. Glenn Manning in 1957&#8217;s THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN that warranted his inclusion among esteemed Creature Double Feature alumni.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1905\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Glenn-Langan_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Glenn Langan photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Glenn-Langan_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Glenn-Langan_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Glenn-Langan_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Glenn-Langan_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Glenn-Langan_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 8, 1917 \u2013 January 26, 1991 Mr. Langan&#8217;s career as a character actor included over 70 roles in feature films and television, including such shows as The Abbot and Costello Show (1953), Gilligan&#8217;s Island (1966), and Hondo (1967). However, it was his earnest and enduring portrayal as nuclear blast survivor Lt. Col. Glenn Manning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1905,"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":[89,190,15,7,5,192],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-amazingcolossalman","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-glennlangan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Glenn-Langan_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","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=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}