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His death was reported by New York\u2019s Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where he taught from 2008 until November. No details were immediately available.<\/p>\n
Korkes \u201cbrought decades of experience across film, television and theater into the classroom, meeting each student exactly where they were,\u201d said a statement from the school. \u201cHe loved teaching, and his students knew it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 1968, Korkes was working as a reader in auditions for Jules Feiffer<\/a>\u2019s off-Broadway production of Little Murders<\/a> when he was cast by director Arkin to play the brother of Marcia Rodd<\/a>\u2019s character in the Fred Willard<\/a>-starring black comedy about unrelenting decay in New York City.<\/p>\n He reprised the role of Kenny…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jon Korkes, the veteran character actor and acting teacher who worked for director Alan Arkin in Little Murders on stage and screen and portrayed the doomed turret gunner opposite him in Mike Nichols\u2019 Catch-22, has died. He was 80. His death was reported by New York\u2019s Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where he taught from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2222212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2222211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jon-Korkes-Actor-in-\u2018Catch-22-\u2018Little-Murders-and-\u2018Oz-Dies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222213,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222211\/revisions\/2222213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}