{"id":34744,"date":"2026-09-20T12:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34744"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:29:31","slug":"phantom-of-the-paradise-star-dies-at-77-after-decades-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34744","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Phantom of the Paradise\u2019 Star Dies at 77 After Decades in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Veteran actor, screenwriter and songwriter Gerrit Graham has died at 77.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Known for his memorable role as Beef in <em>Phantom of the Paradise<\/em> and appearances in Brian De Palma films, Graham built a career spanning movies, television and music. He also appeared in <em>Seinfeld<\/em>, <em>The Wonder Years<\/em> and <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> and <em>Voyager<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Beyond acting, Graham co-wrote the Grateful Dead song \u201cVictim or the Crime\u201d with Bob Weir.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his two sons and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nmcr7-Fxbzs?si=D2BNrQBXAA8dqIWL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor, screenwriter and songwriter Gerrit Graham has died at 77. Known for his memorable role as Beef in Phantom of the Paradise and appearances in Brian De Palma films, Graham built a career spanning movies, television and music. He also appeared in Seinfeld, The Wonder Years and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34744\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Phantom of the Paradise\u2019 Star Dies at 77 After Decades in Hollywood&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34746,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744\/revisions\/34746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}