Powers Boothe Dies At 68 - Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/powers-boothe-dead-agents-shield-sin-city-actor-was-68-1003667 Powers Boothe, a character actor who appeared in films like Sin City and TV shows including Deadwood and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., died Sunday morning in his sleep of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 68. Boothe, who grew up on a farm in Texas, began his acting career in the theater, playing in a number of Shakespearean productions including Henry IV. He made his Broadway debut in the late 1970s in Lone Star & Pvt. Wars. In 1980, Boothe won an Emmy for lead actor in a limited series or special for playing cult leader Jim Jones in CBS' Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. He won that award during an actors strike and chose to cross the picket line to accept his trophy, saying, "This may be either the bravest moment of my career or the dumbest." Boothe gained a reputation for playing villains with memorable roles in the action film Sudden Death (1995), Bill Paxton's Frailty (2001) and the nefarious Senator Roark in Sin City (2005). Perhaps his most famous villain role was Cy Tolliver, the ruthless saloon owner on HBO's Deadwood. More recently, Boothe took on the role of Gideon Malick as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, debuting the role in 2012's The Avengers and reprising it on ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He portrayed Alexander Haig in Nixon (1995) and a sheriff in another Oliver Stone film, U Turn (1997), and was unforgettable as the wicked gunman Curly Bill Brocius in Tombstone (1993). He was a special guest star on 24, where he played Vice President Noah Daniels. Boothe joined the ranks of Humphrey Bogart and other actors when he portrayed Philip Marlowe in a series of short films for HBO in the 1980s.
Him and Ian McShane as the ruthless competing saloon pimps made Deadwood into a classic of the Western genre. RIP.
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Bond. James Bond. One of them. Roger Moore - 89 JUST IN: Sir Roger Moore, actor who played James Bond, has died at age 89 after "a short but brave battle with cancer," his family says pic.twitter.com/ztuyeGCMc8— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 23, 2017
Roger Moore, the Suave James Bond in Seven Films, Dies at 89 - N.Y. Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/movies/roger-moore-dead-james-bond.html Roger Moore, the dapper British actor who brought tongue-in-cheek humor to the James Bond persona in seven films, eclipsing his television career, which had included starring roles in at least five series, died on Tuesday in Switzerland. He was 89. The death was attributed to cancer. Mr. Moore was the oldest Bond ever hired, taking on the role when he was 46. (Sean Connery, who originated the film character and with whom Mr. Moore was constantly compared, was 33.) He also had the longest run in the role, beginning in 1973 with Live and Let Die and winding up in 1985 with A View to a Kill. When he became 007, the author Ian Fleming’s sexy secret agent with a license to kill, Mr. Moore was already well known to American audiences. After playing the title role in a British medieval-adventure series, Ivanhoe, shown in the United States in syndication in 1958, and starring in The Alaskans, a short-lived (1959-60) ABC gold-rush series, he replaced the departing James Garner in the fourth season (1960-61) of the western hit Maverick. His decidedly non-Western accent was explained away by the British education of his character, Beauregard Maverick, the original hero’s cousin. From 1962 to 1969 Mr. Moore was Simon Templar, the title character of The Saint, a wildly popular British series about an adventurous, smooth-talking thief created by Leslie Charteris. It did so well in syndication in America that NBC adopted it for its prime-time schedule from 1967 to 1969. Two years later, Mr. Moore and Tony Curtis starred in ABC’s one-season series The Persuaders, as playboy partners solving glamorous European crimes. After George Lazenby was done as 007 in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Moore took on the guise of the superspy in Live and Let Die (1973) and stayed for The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985), which hit theaters when he was nearly 58. He said it was his choice to leave the franchise. His Bond was more of a charmer than a fighter, more of a stirrer than was the shaker embodied by the first Bond, Scotsman Sean Connery. Moore took on the role with a grain of salt, not to mention cigars — as part of his contract, he reportedly was given unlimited Montecristos during production. After surrendering the Bond role to Timothy Dalton, Mr. Moore appeared in a half-dozen largely unexceptional movies, made a few television appearances and did voice work in animated films. He starred in the 1976 NBC movie Sherlock Holmes in New York (Patrick Macnee played Dr. Watson and John Huston was Professor Moriarty). Mostly, however, he turned his attention elsewhere, becoming a Unicef good-will ambassador in 1991. He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1999 and was knighted in 2003. With Barbara Bach at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977.
Contrarian. The Moore films deteriorated as he made them. the disco-era scripts are virtually unwatchable. Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker!!!!!! are dreadful movies. Moonraker is the worst of them all. All it needed was a cameo from The Captain and Tenille.