{"id":201,"date":"2012-09-04T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2012-09-04T07:53:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T07:53:12","slug":"michael-clarke-duncan-of-green-mile-fame-dies-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Michael Clarke Duncan of \u2018Green Mile\u2019 fame dies at 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<h1><cite><\/cite><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nkisiland.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=203\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-203\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/nkisiland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/duncan-slideshow-jpg_001526-e1346745114257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a>Michael Clarke Duncan &#8212; best known for his Oscar-nominated role as a death row inmate who possessed magical healing powers in the 1999 film &#8220;<em><em><\/em>The Green Mile<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; died on Monday at the age of 54, according to his fiancee Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth. (from yahoo.com)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Duncan had been in a Los Angeles hospital since July 13 following a heart attack and died on Monday morning after close to two months of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his role as gentle giant prisoner John Coffey in &#8220;<em><em><\/em>The Green Mile<\/em>,&#8221; also starring Tom Hanks. Duncan won the role, in part, due to a recommendation by Bruce Willis, who he worked with on 1998&#8217;s &#8220;Armageddon.&#8221; Duncan went on to appear with Willis in three more films &#8212; &#8220;<em><em><\/em>Breakfast of Champions<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em><em><\/em>The Whole Nine Yards<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em><em><\/em>Sin City<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before he broke into acting, Duncan worked as a bodyguard for stars including Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, and The Notorious B.I.G. &#8212; whose 1997 death prompted him to quit that line of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Clarke Duncan &#8212; best known for his Oscar-nominated role as a death row inmate who possessed magical healing powers in the 1999 film &#8220;The Green Mile&#8221; &#8212; died on Monday at the age of 54, according to his fiancee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/?p=201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nkisiland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}