The actor won an Emmy for portraying doomed cult leader Jim Jones.
Powers Boothe had a screen presence that lived up to his name.
The heavies are more fun, the actor toldAmerican Profilemagazine in 2014.
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And I think theyre more interesting.
Boothe died in his sleep from apparent natural causes, his publicist, Karen Samfilippo, tells EW.
A dear friend, great actor, devoted father & husband.
If the performance typecast him as a roguish megalomaniac, there was still no shortage of roles for Boothe.
There were scattered good-guys throughout his filmography.
Boothe was born and raised in tiny Snyder, Texas (population: 11,000, give or take).
He was the youngest of three sons to a sharecropper farmer.
They had two children, daughter Parisse, and son Preston.
A scene or two.
Even just a few words.
ConsiderTombstoneand the moment when his victorious cowboy gang-boss casually dismisses a broken Wyatt Earp.
