{"id":11443,"date":"2021-04-08T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:39:58","slug":"actor-walter-olkewicz-kisses-life-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11443","title":{"rendered":"Actor Walter Olkewicz Kisses Life Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Olkewicz\">actor<\/a> Walter Olkewicz, who played several roles in the series &#8220;Twin Peaks&#8221; (1990-1991), died at the age of 72 in Los Angeles. This was reported by his son, screenwriter Zak Olkewicz, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 08, 2021 \u2013 Art and Celebrities<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said the actor died on the morning of April 6 at his home in Los Angeles. For the past 20 years, Olkewicz has had health problems and undergone a series of knee surgeries, in connection with which he was bedridden and forced to take a break from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/art-and-celebrities\/tina-turner-ends-her-music-career\/\">career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walter Olkewicz is known to a wide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/sport\/dynamo-dresden-sells-72000-tickets-for-game-without-audience\/\">audience<\/a> for the roles of bartender Jacques Reno and owner of the bar &#8220;House by the Road&#8221; Jean-Michel Reno in the TV series David Lynch &#8220;Twin Peaks&#8221;. He made his debut in a short episode in Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8220;Nineteen Forty-First&#8221; (&#8220;1941&#8221;, 1979), and later starred in many series and films, including &#8220;Shorty from Miami&#8221; (Pronto, 1997), &#8220;Stewart saves his family \u201d(Stuart Saves His Family, 1995) and others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American writer and screenwriter, screenwriter for &#8220;Humpback Mountain&#8221; Larry McMurtry has died at the age of 85.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukraine-news\/presidential-scholarships-for-kharkiv-writers\/\">Presidential Scholarships for Kharkiv Writers!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American actor Walter Olkewicz, who played several roles in the series &#8220;Twin Peaks&#8221; (1990-1991), died at the age of 72 in Los Angeles. This was reported by his son, screenwriter Zak Olkewicz, on Wednesday. Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 08, 2021 \u2013 Art and Celebrities \u00a0 He said the actor died on the morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[62,4410,293,5486,1036,5487],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrities-news","tag-death","tag-twin-peaks","tag-usa","tag-walter-olkewicz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}