{"id":111679,"date":"2020-04-17T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/361421"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:46:00","slug":"obituary-resident-evil-2-voice-actor-paul-haddad-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/obituary-resident-evil-2-voice-actor-paul-haddad-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Resident Evil 2 voice actor Paul Haddad has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Resident Evil 2<\/em> voice actor Paul Haddad has passed away. Word of his death&nbsp;had spread on social media, and was eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InvaderDevs\/status\/1251135556995764231\">confirmed by Invader Studios<\/a>, which&nbsp;recently worked with Haddad on horror title <em>Daymare: 1998<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Haddad was best known for playing Leon S. Kennedy in the original <em>Resident Evil 2<\/em>, which was met with critical acclaim&nbsp;when it launched in 1998 and&nbsp;spawned a successful remake.<\/p>\n<p>He also appeared in a number of television shows and movies, voicing a number of characters&nbsp;in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, X-Men, and Free Willy animated series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paul Haddad, our dear friend and an icon among the<em> Resident Evil<\/em>&nbsp;community, has passed away recently,&#8221; said Invader on Twitter. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been truly honored to have the chance to meet and work with such a great man and a brilliant professional that He was. Rest in Peace Paul.&nbsp;You will live forever in our hearts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident Evil 2 voice actor Paul Haddad has passed away. Word of his death&nbsp;had spread on social media, and was eventually confirmed by Invader Studios, which&nbsp;recently worked with Haddad on horror title Daymare: 1998.&nbsp; Haddad was best known for playing Leon S. Kennedy in the original Resident Evil 2, which was met with critical acclaim&nbsp;when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}