{"id":866117,"date":"2026-09-30T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866117\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:36:09","slug":"dennis-haskins-who-played-mr-belding-on-saved-by-the-bell-dies-at-75-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866117\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Haskins, who played Mr. Belding on &#8216;Saved by the Bell,&#8217; dies at 75 :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Haskins, the actor best known for playing Bayside High&#8217;s principal on the hit late 80s and early 90s teen sitcom &#8220;Saved by the Bell,&#8221; has died. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from playing the Principal Richard Belding on &#8220;Saved by the Bell,&#8221; Haskins also appeared in other films and television programs, including &#8220;A Million Ways to Die in the West,&#8221; &#8220;Magnum, P.I.&#8221; and &#8220;It&#8217;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haskins&#8217; agent, Jay Schachter, announced his death on Monday. He said in a statement the actor &#8220;absolutely loved his fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone loved Mr. Belding and those of us who got to know Dennis, loved him even more,\u201d Schachter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dennis Haskins, the actor best known for playing Bayside High&#8217;s principal on the hit late 80s and early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2692,8609,88,92],"class_list":["post-866117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-celebrity","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}