051 Goofball Stud (Bill Paxton)

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This person died 2017, age 61. He was described as good-natured in assessing his status in Hollywood. In a 1998 interview he said, “I haven’t had a role that’s propelled me into major stardom. I’ve had roles that put me on the playing field.” From 2006 to 2011, he played the lead role of Bill Henrickson on the HBO show Big Love. Early in his career, he had small parts in “The Terminator” and “Aliens”,  both directed by James Cameron. He played a car salesman who cheated Jamie Lee Curtis’s character in the movie “True Lies”, a treasure hunter in the “Titanic”, an “Apollo 13” astronaut,  and a heroic storm-chaser in the “Twister”.  Today’s dead celebrity is Bill Paxton.

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