{"id":8436,"date":"2025-11-04T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:55:26","slug":"veteran-actor-dies-aged-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8436","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor dies aged 95"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Veteran Actor Passes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Weaver, famed for his work on TV and film during the 1960s and 1970s,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>died on September 22 at his Los Angeles home, aged 95. His family said he \u201cwove joy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>depth, and representation into every role he played and everything he did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Early Life and Career<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born April 10, 1930, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Weaver served four years in the U.S. Army and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>worked as a linotype engineer and jazz club promoter before starting on stage in the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Television and Fil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appeared on shows like&nbsp;<em>I Spy<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Wild, Wild West<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Bill Cosby Show<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Good Times<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weaver also voiced roles in films including&nbsp;<em>O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The 40-Year-Old Virgin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/11\/03104240\/GettyImages-110459096-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179429\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Personal Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by his wife of 54 years, actress Ta-Tanisha, and their daughter, Leis La-Te.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Actor Passes Lee Weaver, famed for his work on TV and film during the 1960s and 1970s, died on September 22 at his Los Angeles home, aged 95. His family said he \u201cwove joy, depth, and representation into every role he played and everything he did.\u201d Early Life and Career Born April 10, 1930,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8438,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}