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<\/p>\nIsiah Whitlock Jr., who was best known for his role on The Wire, has died aged 71.<\/p>\n
“It is with tremendous sadness that I share the passing of my dear friend and client Isiah Whitlock Jr.,” his manager said in a statement. “If you knew him – you loved him”.<\/p>\n
Whitlock Jr. portrayed openly corrupt city councilman Clay Davis on 25 episodes over five seasons of The Wire from 2002 to 2008.<\/p>\n
The fan-favourite character was known for his trademark expression – “sheee-it” -, which was first delivered on the show in 2002.<\/p>\n
The profanity inspired the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum to release a 20th Anniversary Edition Isiah Whitlock Jr. Talking Bobblehead in 2022.<\/p>\n
The creator of The Wire, David Simon, shared a caption-less picture of Whitlock Jr. on Bluesky in tribute on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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Image:
\n Whitlock Jr., far right, with the cast of Veep at the premiere of the show’s third season. Pic: AP<\/p>\n
Whitlock Jr. starred in the political satire Veep alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing secretary of defence George Maddox for three seasons from 2013 to 2015.<\/p>\n
He also appeared in several Spike Lee films, including 25th Hour, Da 5 Bloods, BlacKkKlansman, Red Hook Summer, Chi-Raq and She Hate Me.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News:<\/strong> Lee paid tribute to Whitlock Jr. on Instagram, writing: “Today I Learned Of The Passing Of My Dear Beloved Brother ISIAH WHITLOCK. GOD BLESS.”<\/p>\n Whitlock Jr. had several guest roles on TV shows like Cagney and Lacy as well as Law & Order and appeared in small roles in the 1990 films Goodfellas and Gremlins 2: The New Batch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isiah Whitlock Jr., who was best known for his role on The Wire, has died aged 71. “It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-259376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115812736897540898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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