{"id":12687,"date":"2023-01-08T05:14:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T05:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/earl-boen-the-voice-of-monkey-islands-captain-lechuck-has-passed-away\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T05:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T05:14:55","slug":"earl-boen-the-voice-of-monkey-islands-captain-lechuck-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/earl-boen-the-voice-of-monkey-islands-captain-lechuck-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Boen, The Voice Of Monkey Island&#8217;s Captain LeChuck, Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Also known for his role in the Terminator movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A report from <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/earl-boen-the-terminator-actor-dies-1235480866\/\">Variety<\/a> has revealed Earl Boen &#8211; the original voice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/return_to_monkey_island\">Monkey Island<\/a>&#8216;s main antagonist Captain LeChuck &#8211; has passed away at the age of 81 after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from featuring in the Monkey Island series until 2010, Boen voiced characters and narrated games like <strong>World of Warcraft<\/strong>, <strong>Metal Gear Solid 2<\/strong> (Sergei Gurlukovich), <strong>Baldur&#8217;s Gate<\/strong> and <strong>Psychonauts<\/strong> (Butcher).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/01\/earl-boen-the-voice-of-monkey-islands-captain-lechuck-has-passed-away\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Earl Boen, The Voice Of Monkey Island&#8217;s Captain LeChuck, Has Passed Away<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also known for his role in the Terminator movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A report from <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/earl-boen-the-terminator-actor-dies-1235480866\/\">Variety<\/a> has revealed Earl Boen &#8211; the original voice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/return_to_monkey_island\">Monkey Island<\/a>&#8216;s main antagonist Captain LeChuck &#8211; has passed away at the age of 81 after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from featuring in the Monkey Island series until 2010, Boen voiced characters and narrated games like <strong>World of Warcraft<\/strong>, <strong>Metal Gear Solid 2<\/strong> (Sergei Gurlukovich), <strong>Baldur&#8217;s Gate<\/strong> and <strong>Psychonauts<\/strong> (Butcher).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/01\/earl-boen-the-voice-of-monkey-islands-captain-lechuck-has-passed-away\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}