{"id":4272,"date":"2022-08-26T08:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:21:34","slug":"winston-stona-of-the-harder-they-come-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4272","title":{"rendered":"Winston Stona of The Harder They Come Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winston Stona, the Jamaican actor who played detective Ray Jones in <strong>\u2018The Harder They Come\u2019<\/strong>, died here August 23 at age 82. His other movie roles included <strong>\u2018The Lunatic\u2019<\/strong>, <strong>\u2018Cool Runnings\u2019 <\/strong>and <strong>\u2018No Place Like Home\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUncle Winnie had been in my life since my earliest memories. A close friend of my parents, he frequented 10a West Kings House Road where he was full of stories and fun. I believe my father recognized his great charisma and captured his talent on screen. Though he wasn\u2019t a trained actor he gave an incredible performance as the police detective Ray Jones,\u201d said Justine Henzell, whose father Perry Henzell directed <strong>\u2018The Harder They Come\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stona had little acting experience when he was cast for the 1972 movie, which starred Jimmy Cliff as Ivan, a country boy who moves to Kingston, Jamaica\u2019s capital, to make it as a singer.\u00a0 The Henzell family are currently celebrating the 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of <strong>\u2018The Harder They Come\u2019<\/strong>. An exhibition marking that milestone was launched in June at Perry Henzell\u2019s former home at 10a West Kings House Road.\u00a0 Perry Henzell died in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Though he appeared sporadically in movies, Stona was known in Jamaica as a successful businessman. He was co-founder of Busha Browne, a company that produces a variety of spices, jellies, and preservatives.\u00a0 Winston Stona is survived by a son, daughter and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winston Stona, the Jamaican actor who played detective Ray Jones in \u2018The Harder They Come\u2019, died here August 23 at age 82. His other movie roles included \u2018The Lunatic\u2019, \u2018Cool Runnings\u2019 and \u2018No Place Like Home\u2019. \u201cUncle Winnie had been in my life since my earliest memories. A close friend of my parents, he frequented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4276,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/4276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}