Tag Archives: American cinema

RIP Anne Heche (1969 – 2022)

Wild Side (1995)

Anne Heche was an American actress known for many films and television dramas.

I remember her for Wild Side (1995).

RIP Bob Rafelson (1933 – 2022)

Chicken salad scene from Five Easy Pieces.

Bob Rafelson was an American film director. I remember him for Head (1968) and Five Easy Pieces (1970).

Five Easy Pieces is famous for its chicken salad scene.

Head, full film.

Head is known for being a hippie film in the style of The Trip (1967), Medium Cool (1969) and Putney Swope (1969).

RIP Lenny Von Dohlen (1958 – 2022)

Electric Dreams (1984)

Lenny Von Dohlen was an American actor.

I remember him for Electric Dreams (1984), which can be read as a prequel to Her.

RIP L. Q. Jones (1927 – 2022)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAP14OMIQkM&ab_channel=SurfdawgTV

A Boy and His Dog (1975)

L. Q. Jones was an American actor and film director. I remember him from A Boy and His Dog (1975), a cult film about a boy and his telepathic dog who hunt for food and women. They end up in a handmaid’s tale type world. There is some nudity and lots of misogyny.

RIP James Caan (1940 – 2022)

Dogville (2003): Caan gives his daughter (Kidman) her powers back

James Caan was an American actor known for such films as The Godfather (1972) and Dogville (2003).

RIP Philip Baker Hall (1931 – 2022)

Magnolia (1999)

Philip Baker Hall was an American actor.

A character actor, he was known for his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson in such films as Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999).

Boogie Nights (1997)

RIP Ray Liotta (1954 – 2022)

Ray Liotta is Ray Sinclair, the violent ex-convict husband of Melanie Griffith in Something Wild (1986).

Ray Liotta was an American actor known for his parts in films such as Something Wild (1986) and Goodfellas (1990).

He was noted for his pockmarked face.

RIP Bo Hopkins (1942 – 2022)

“Legalize marijuana”, says the side of the van at the fourth second of this clip of White Lightning (1973). In this film Hopkins is Roy “Rebel Roy” Boone.

Bo Hopkins was an American actor known for secondary roles in films such as The Wild Bunch (1969), American Graffiti (1973) and Midnight Express (1978).

RIP Fred Ward (1942 – 2022)

Fred Ward was an American actor known for parts in films such as Miami Blues (1990), a film I enjoyed immensely and Tremors (1990), which is nearly as good as Miami Blues.

Miami Blues, full film, Fred Ward is Sgt. Hoke Moseley

RIP Richard Rush (1929 – 2021)

This happened in 2021 but I only just found out, while I was researching the hippie film Escalation of the previous dead person.

Psych-Out (1968)

Richard Rush was an American film director known for films such as Psych-Out (1968).

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