RIP Powers Boothe

:crying: His portrayal of Curly Bill is my favorite. RIP.

I really liked him, RIP.

He was great in Tomb Stone and Sin City. Love his portrayal of villains.

He was a very good actor with a beautiful voice, he was a bird Hunter very good with the shotgun, never saw him in a role I didn't like.

Loved him in Tombstone and Hatfields & McCoys. What a great period actor.

Without a good villain, any action movie is flat. It is among the highest theatrical arts.

I just watched him recently in "Tombstone." Wonderful actor. RIP!

Col. Andy Tanner: ...The Russians need to take us in one piece, and that's why they're here. That's why they won't use nukes anymore; and we won't either, not on our own soil. The whole damn thing's pretty conventional now. Who knows? Maybe next week will be swords.
Darryl Bates: What started it?
Col. Andy Tanner: I don't know. Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later, they're gonna fight.
Jed Eckert: That simple, is it?
Col. Andy Tanner: Or maybe somebody just forget what it was like.
Jed Eckert: ...Well, who *is* on our side?
Col. Andy Tanner: Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.
Darryl Bates: Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen.
Col. Andy Tanner: There *were*.

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Awesome in Red Dawn as well. RIP Col. Tanner.

A terrific and versatile actor, specialising in period characters, Powers Boothe, very much like Raymond Burr, was best known for playing villains, although, unlike Burr, his bad guys were played having a sense of humour...distinctive, if disturbing; but, given an heroic role, even a romantic lead, he'd pull it off with aplomb.

He seemed to gravitate toward imaginative and often eccentric projects, the kind that push the entertainment industry into new and exciting directions, and he was very good in them.

A subtle and generally underrated talent, he will be greatly missed. I know I shall miss him and his fine work.

He was 68.

Requiescat in Pace, Powers.

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Houston TV had a fine Obit for him. He was a West Texas Son, didn't know that, he will be sorely missed.

Red Dawn, baby. He helped make that movie feel so believable.

Mr. Boothe's bread and butter was playing the heavy and very few actors today did it any better.
I read the other day that a final script has been put on the table to wrap up HBO's "Deadwood." Series producer/creator/writer David Milch is on-board as is Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane. But sadly, Mr. Boothe's lower than whale shit, under handed, grifting, smarmy and electrifying performance as Cy Tolliver will not be part of the final episode. And that makes me very, very sad. He was such an integral part of the "Deadwood" story.
Walter Hill is one of my very favorite directors and writers: both versions of "The Getaway," "The MacKintosh Man," "48 Hours," "The Long Riders, all of the "Aliens," "Southern Comfort," "The Last Man Standing," etc. (The guy loves action and tells a a great story usually accompanied by a Ry Cooder soundtrack.) Hill did a swell film many years ago which most of you have never seen, "Extreme Prejudice." Mr. Boothe was the bad guy and he tore the shit out of his roll, alongside a hard as nails Nick Nolte and Rip Torn at his very best.
I'm always going to remember Powers Boothe as Cash Bailey and Cy Tolliver; two bad guys played by a man who died married to his high school sweetheart of almost fifty years and a proud father of two children.
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Evverything is better with a Ry Cooder, and/or Jack Nietzsche soundtrack.

Damb! loved him in Red Dawn

There's a good obit on Powers Boothe in today's The New York Times by their best obit writer. Class acts, reporter and subject. My wife knew Powers Boothe in New York City in the 1970's through a friend. He has a more expansive life than just the acting, which was expansive enough. He trained as a plumber as a back-up income, and was also a respected painter (visual artist) who had gallery shows. My wife was moving into a sub-let in Soho (neighborhood in NYC) and she was sitting in her rental truck outside the apartment early in the morning, ready to move the truck to comply with the city's complex and arcane parking laws. Powers came out and asked her what she was doing, and she explained the parking problem. He told her to go inside and take it easy. Having worked in the city as a tradesman, he explained: "You're a truck now."

RIP, take it easy Powers, you're a truck now.

...oops, the primo obit writer did the other obit on the page for Chuck Davis, the African dance impresario, but the Boothe obit is good.

Great story, MSO.
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