William Paxton was an American actor and film director. He appeared in films such as Stripes, The Terminator, Commando, Weird Science, Aliens, Near Dark, Predator 2, Tombstone, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic, Mighty Joe Young, U-571, Vertical Limit, Frailty, Broken Lizard’s Club Dread, Thunderbirds, Edge of Tomorrow, and Nightcrawler. He also starred in the HBO drama series Big Love, earning three Golden Globe Award nominations during the show’s run. His final film appearance was in The Circle, released two months after his death.
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William Paxton was an American actor and film director. He appeared in films such as Stripes, The Terminator, Commando, Weird Science, Aliens, Near Dark, Predator 2, Tombstone, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic, Mighty Joe Young, U-571, Vertical Limit, Frailty, Broken Lizard’s Club Dread, Thunderbirds, Edge of Tomorrow, and Nightcrawler. He also starred in the HBO drama series Big Love, earning three Golden Globe Award nominations during the show’s run. His final film appearance was in The Circle, released two months after his death. Paxton is of English, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, Austrian, German, French, Swiss and Dutch descent, and also had distant Welsh and Norwegian ancestry. His great-great-grandfather was Elisha Franklin Paxton, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, who was killed commanding the legendary Stonewall Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
He was in the crowd when President John F. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of his assassination on November 22, 1963. He later co-produced the film Parkland, about the assassination. In 2018, his performances as Peter Coconut Pete in Broken Lizard’s Club Dread were released posthumously on the album \”Take Another Hit: The Best of Coconut Pete\”. His performance as Private Hudson in The Terminator earned him the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1990, Paxton played most psychotic of the vampires, Severen Seren, in the neo-Western horror film A Simple Plan. In his other roles, he played Morgan Earp in Apollo 13, Fred Haise in Twister and lead roles in False One Move and A Simpleplan.
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