{"id":21031,"date":"2026-09-21T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=21031"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:01:32","slug":"phantom-of-the-paradise-star-gerrit-graham-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=21031","title":{"rendered":"\u2018PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE\u2019 STAR GERRIT GRAHAM DIES AT 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veteran actor, screenwriter and songwriter <strong>Gerrit Graham<\/strong> has died at 77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best known for playing <strong>Beef in<\/strong> <em><strong>Phantom of the Paradise<\/strong><\/em>, Graham enjoyed a long Hollywood career, appearing in <em>Seinfeld<\/em>, <em>The Wonder Years<\/em>, <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> and <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em>, along with several Brian De Palma films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was also a songwriter and co-wrote the Grateful Dead song <strong>\u201cVictim or the Crime\u201d<\/strong> with Bob Weir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graham is survived by <strong>two sons and four grandchildren<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A memorable Hollywood career has come to an end. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Nmcr7-Fxbzs%3Fsi%3DD2BNrQBXAA8dqIWL\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor, screenwriter and songwriter Gerrit Graham has died at 77. Best known for playing Beef in Phantom of the Paradise, Graham enjoyed a long Hollywood career, appearing in Seinfeld, The Wonder Years, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, along with several Brian De Palma films. He was also a songwriter and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21034,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031\/revisions\/21034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}