{"id":3900,"date":"2024-12-14T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:41:01","slug":"happy-birthday-laurence-naismith-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/12\/happy-birthday-laurence-naismith-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Laurence Naismith!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">December 14, 1908 \u2013 June 5, 1992<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A British character actor with over a hundred credits on his resum\u00e9, Laurence Naismith notably played Argos in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and Professor Bromley in the CDF fan-favorite THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. As well as appearing in these two Ray Harryhausen classics, Mr. Naismith enjoyed a long acting career peppered with memorable roles; such as Captain Edward John Smith in 1958&#8217;s Titanic film A Night to Remember, Mr. Blunden in the children&#8217;s ghost film The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972), and Mr. Fezziwig in the 1970 musical film Scrooge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-848\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Laurence-Naismith_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Laurence Naismith photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Laurence-Naismith_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Laurence-Naismith_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Laurence-Naismith_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Laurence-Naismith_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Laurence-Naismith_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 14, 1908 \u2013 June 5, 1992 A British character actor with over a hundred credits on his resum\u00e9, Laurence Naismith notably played Argos in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and Professor Bromley in the CDF fan-favorite THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. As well as appearing in these two Ray Harryhausen classics, Mr. Naismith enjoyed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848,"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":[89,15,7,5,6,46,32,307,49,50],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-dinosaur","tag-happybirthday","tag-laurencenaismith","tag-rayharryhausen","tag-valleyofgwangi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Laurence-Naismith_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","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=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}