{"id":7061,"date":"2021-02-26T19:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/licence-to-kill-actor-and-olympic-champion-rafer-johnson-passes-away-aged-86\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:00:47","slug":"licence-to-kill-actor-and-olympic-champion-rafer-johnson-passes-away-aged-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/entertainment\/licence-to-kill-actor-and-olympic-champion-rafer-johnson-passes-away-aged-86\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Licence to Kill&#8217; actor and Olympic champion Rafer Johnson passes away aged 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion Rafer Johnson appeared in the James Bond film &#8216;Licence to Kill&#8217;. (Credit: David Livingston\/Getty Images\/Eon\/MGM)Rafer Johnson, who is best known for his athletics career and his performance in James Bond movie Licence to Kill, has passed away at the age of 86.Johnson won an Olympic gold medal in the decathlon in 1960, besting the silver medal he earned at the previous Games in 1956.Read more: Licence to Kill and other misunderstood moviesHe later became involved in politics and helped to subdue the shooter responsible for assassinating US senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.Johnson, who was dubbe&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/james-bond-actor-rafer-johnson-dead-135750283.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion Rafer Johnson appeared in the James Bond film &#8216;Licence to Kill&#8217;. (Credit: David Livingston\/Getty Images\/Eon\/MGM)Rafer Johnson, who is best known for his athletics career and his performance in James Bond movie Licence to Kill, has passed away at the age of 86.Johnson won an Olympic gold medal in the decathlon in 1960, besting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1628,"featured_media":7062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Licence to Kill&#039; actor and Olympic champion Rafer Johnson passes away aged 86 - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/licence-to-kill-actor-and-olympic-champion-rafer-johnson-passes-away-aged-86\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Licence to Kill&#039; actor and Olympic champion Rafer Johnson passes away aged 86 - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Olympic champion Rafer Johnson appeared in the James Bond film &#039;Licence to Kill&#039;. 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