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).
Tag Archives: American cinema
RIP Ray Liotta (1954 – 2022)
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)
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.
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.
Richard Rush was an American film director known for films such as Psych-Out (1968).
RIP Kathy Lamkin (1947 – 2022)
Kathy Lamkin (1947 – 2022) was an American actress known for such parts as the trailer park lady in No Country for Old Men (2007).
RIP William Hurt (1950 – 2022)
William Hurt was an American actor known for his parts in Ken Russell’s drug epos Altered States (1980), the gay epic Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), the cyberpunk classic Dark City (1998) and Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (2005).
Hurt’s death has made me curious about Dark City, which I should have seen already but I have not.
RIP Roger Graef (1936 – 2022)
Roger Graef was an American-born British documentary filmmaker known for such films as One of Them is Brett (1965) and Why Save Florence? (1968).
RIP Nick Zedd (1958 – 2022)
Nick Zedd was an American filmmaker known for no-budget films such as Police State (1987) .
RIP Ivan Reitman (1946 – 2022)
Ivan Reitman was a Czech-born Canadian film director and producer best known for directing Ghostbusters (1984).