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68 years old. One of the great character actors.
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| I know he was in a lot of things but I remember him mostly as Rayna's dad on Nashville(although his character was killed off a while back it was rumored he was ill even then) |
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| Always remember him from way back as Jim Jones. |
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Oh damn.
Anyone ever see Southern Comfort? It's wildly underrated and he was awesome in it.
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| Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | Cy Tolliver & Curly Bill
RIP a great actor |
Bill Paxton now Powers Booth  .
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Damn, he was a good actor. He was great on 24, Deadwood, and especially in Tombstone.
I also loved him in the cheesy 80's movie Extreme Prejudice. |
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| Cochese wrote: | Damn, he was a good actor. He was great on 24, Deadwood, and especially in Tombstone.
I also loved him in the cheesy 80's movie Extreme Prejudice. |
Yeah, that's the performance of his that sticks with me.
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| Loved his work. RIP Curly Bill |
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| Up in heaven drinking Shiner with Bill Paxton now. |
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| DancingBarry wrote: | | Always remember him from way back as Jim Jones. |
Very creepy portrayal. (which, makes sense, I suppose).
And who could forget Red Dawn when he tells the Wolverines what's up.
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Col. Andy Tanner: [Describing the invasion] West Coast. East Coast. Down here is Mexico. First wave of the attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights same way they did in Afghanistan in '80. Only they were crack Airborne outfits. Now they took these passes in the Rockies.
Jed Eckert: So that's what hit Calumet.
Col. Andy Tanner: I guess so. They coordinated with selective nuke strikes and the missiles were a helluva lot more accurate than we thought. They took out the silos here in the Dakotas, key points of communication.
Darryl Bates: Like what?
Col. Andy Tanner: Oh, like Omaha, Washington, Kansas City.
Darryl Bates: Gone?
Col. Andy Tanner: Yeah. That's right. Infiltrators came up illegal from Mexico. Cubans mostly. They managed to infiltrate SAC bases in the Midwest, several down in Texas and wreaked a helluva lot of havoc, I'm here to tell you. They opened up the door down here, and the whole Cuban & Nicaraguan armies come walking right through, rolled right up here through the Great Plains.
Robert: How far did they get?
Col. Andy Tanner: Cheyenne, across to Kansas. We held them at the Rockies and the Mississippi. Anyway, the Russians reinforced with 60 divisions. Sent three whole army groups across the Bering Strait into Alaska, cut the pipeline, came across Canada to link up here in the middle, but we stopped their butt cold. The lines have pretty much stabilized now.
Robert: What about Europe?
Col. Andy Tanner: I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except England, and they won't last very long. |
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| OregonLakerGuy wrote: | | Loved his work. RIP Curly Bill |
Me too. Tombstone was probably his best role to me.
One of my other favorites was an old HBO movie, "By Dawn's Early Light" where he played a B-52 pilot who was wrestled with the decision to carry out a nuclear strike order on the Soviet Union. It was kind of an Air Force version of "Crimson Tide".
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| jonnybravo wrote: | Oh damn.
Anyone ever see Southern Comfort? It's wildly underrated and he was awesome in it. |
Yeah,
"I got reason to be paranoid"
He and David Carradine were great. |
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His villainous roles were always delivered with nuance and precision. He had that stoic delivery, but also very expressive at the same time. Unique actor, and genuinely intimidating in most of his roles. Reminded me of Clancy Brown in that respect.
Always felt his performance in the the die hard rip off Sudden Death was Rickman-esque. Though not a great movie, that one stands out to me. He was also great in Oliver Stone's U Turn.
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| Him and Bill Paxton both in Tombstone and in Frailty |
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