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He played soldiers and punks, cowboys and cowards, good ol boys and good, honest men.
Hed play the most regular of guyswho would invariably turn criminal or marry three wives.
I think its because he was so rooted, such a good person.
FellowApollo 13astronaut Tom Hankstweetedthat he was a wonderful man.
Cameron in particular loved to cast Paxton as a goofy thug deserving swift comeuppance.
It was also the movie Jan de Bont saw me in that led to me being cast inTwister.
That trustworthy persona went beyond acting.
Perhaps thats why his role in the dark 1998 masterpieceA Simple Planfeels so insidiously personal.
He played a regular-as-they-come new dad who finds a lot of money that doesnt belong to him.
He was a gentleman in the best sense of the word, Frost says.
He had this wonderful, almost 19th-century [idea] of what a friend should be.
He wrote beautiful, handwritten letters.
He was already a staple as this great character actor, says Sevigny.
What he got to play onBig Lovewas a leading man, which he had never really done before.
The show aired a dedication this week, but the fate of the series has yet to be decided.
[Bill] believed in entertainment being transportive and transformative, says Sevigny.
Additional reporting by Clark Collis, Jeff Jensen, and Lynette Rice
