He was handed a pulpit before he could understand the price. Behind Marjoe Gortner\u2019s astonishing rise from child preacher to Hollywood actor lay a childhood he would later expose on camera, stunning audiences around the world. Now, reports of his death at 82 bring a remarkable life back into focus\u2014and reopen the story of a painful and hidden tru<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gortner subsequently built an acting career with appearances in Earthquake<\/em>, Starcrash<\/em> and Falcon Crest<\/em>. Beyond entertainment, he produced celebrity events supporting charitable causes. Ian Ziering remembered him as \u201ca force of nature\u201d who brought people together to help others. He married Susan Magestro in 2019. His legacy spans an extraordinary transformation: a child performing someone else\u2019s script who eventually chose to reveal it\u2014and write his own next chapter. He was handed a pulpit before he could understand the price. Behind Marjoe Gortner\u2019s astonishing rise from child preacher to Hollywood actor lay a childhood he would… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16321,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions\/16321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykmedia.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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