Name: Powers Boothe
Date of Birth: 1 June 1948 He was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at Southwest Texas State University. In September of 1980, in an act of defiance, he showed up at the Emmy Awards ceremony to collect the award he had won for playing Jim Jones. The Screen Actors Guild was in the middle of a strike and members boycotted the ceremony until the strike was settled. He was the only winner in an acting category who showed up. The incident was referenced in the James L. Brooks film, I'll Do Anything (1994). ... His first film role was as a Bolivian bandito in the 1969 classic, "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid". He had no lines and did not receive a credit. Father of Parisse Boothe. During the 1980 actor's strike, he was one of the few nominees to attend the Emmy Awards ceremony, and the only winner to accept his award in person. Born to Merrill Vestal Boothe and his wife Emily Kathryn Reeves. Has Native American ancestry. For his role on Tombstone (1993), he was trained by renowned Hollywood Gun Coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliot, Michael Biehn, Brad Pitt, Girard Swan and Leonardo DiCaprio. He was named after a friend of his father's that was killed in World War II. He earned an MFA from Southern Methodist University and went on to become a resident actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Company. He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2009 in Austin, Tx. Read more Powers Boothe movies (actor)User Comments |
