{"id":1773496,"date":"2022-12-13T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773496"},"modified":"2022-12-13T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:18:04","slug":"rockford-files-star-stuart-margolin-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rockford-files-star-stuart-margolin-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rockford Files\u2019 Star Stuart Margolin Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frockford-files-star-stuart-margolin-dies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773496&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Stuart Margolin, best known for playing the con man Evelyn \u201cAngel\u201d Martin on The Rockford Files, died Monday at the age of 82.<\/p>\n<p>Margolin won two Emmys for his portrayal of Angel on \u201cThe Rockford Files.\u201d Angel had served time in San Quentin with private investigator Jim Rockford, played by James Garner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d made screen tests but couldn\u2019t find what we were looking for until one day I saw a clip from \u2018Love, American Style,\u2019\u201d Garner recalled. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a scene that should have gotten a laugh, but the actor was so good, he broke me up. I knew he was the one for the part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was being sought after as a young character actor and comedian until I had a choice to be on \u2018The Mary Tyler Moore Show\u2019 or on \u2018Nichols\u2019 with Jim Garner,\u201d Margolin said in 2017. \u201cI chose to work with Jim Garner because I thought I\u2019d have more fun, which I never regretted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great series with great writers and the favorite show Jim ever did. It closed down after a year, and then I was approached by Jim\u2019s executive producer and Stephen J. Cannell to be part of \u2018The Rockford Files,\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cSo my career got a little bigger, I won a couple of Emmys, and I\u2019ve had a real steady career over the years with a lot of parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margolin, born in Davenport, Iowa, spent time learning his craft from Barney Brown, who also taught Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, and Robert Duvall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/stuart-margolin-dead-rockford-files-1235280888\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>He debuted on TV in 1961 on \u201cThe Gertrude Berg Show\u201d, then followed with appearances on \u201cEnsign O\u2019Toole,\u201d \u201cBurke\u2019s Law,\u201d \u201cThe Fugitive,\u201d \u201c12 O\u2019Clock High,\u201d \u201cOccasional Wife,\u201d \u201cBen Casey<em>,\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0\u201c<\/em>Alfred Hitchcock Presents<em>\u201d <\/em>and \u201cThe Monkees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In films, Margolin appeared in \u201cS.O.B.,\u201d \u201cA Fine Mess,\u201d \u201cThe Stone Killer\u201d and \u201cDeath Wish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margolin did more than act; he also directed episodes of \u201cThe Rockford Files\u201d as well as \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show,\u201d \u201cWonder Woman,\u201d \u201cTouched By An Angel,\u201d \u201cMagnum P.I.,\u201d \u201cNorthern Exposure,\u201d and \u201cThe Love Boat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margolin\u2019s stepson, Max Martini, wrote in a tribute on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CmE-RhsusEu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;ig_rid=d102cd01-416f-4697-810a-a8709e13d077\">Instagram<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The two most profound moments in my life\u2026 the birth of my kids and being bedside as my step-father passed this morning. My mother, brother and I holding his hands. All the time in between birth and death, life, is up to us to fill with equally profound moments. Anyway, it made me realize how much time I\u2019ve wasted on things that were never going to amount to anything. Just a profound realization I thought I\u2019d share. Love you Stuart Margolin. A great actor\/writer\/producer\/director. But more importantly, a profoundly gifted step-father that was always there with love and support for his family. RIP Pappy. Keep \u2018em cold.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Margolin, best known for playing the con man Evelyn \u201cAngel\u201d Martin on The Rockford Files, died Monday at the age of 82. Margolin won two Emmys for his portrayal of Angel on \u201cThe Rockford Files.\u201d Angel had served time in San Quentin with private investigator Jim Rockford, played by James Garner. \u201cWe\u2019d made screen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1773499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8470,6202,7475,5665,8469,5229,8029,6195],"class_list":["post-1773496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-rockford","tag-daily","tag-dies","tag-files","tag-margolin","tag-star","tag-stuart","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}