POWERS BOOTHE
June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017 (age 68)
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
What I remember most about the actor Powers Boothe was his voice and that goes without saying when you look at the last leg of his career and saw that he was mainly doing voice-over work for animated series like Justice League, Ben 10, and Scooby Doo and even a voice role in the 1997 Nicolas Cage film, Con Air. The first thing I ever would have seen Powers in would have been the original Red Dawn (1984), alongside Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, as a downed pilot that informs them of the current state of the war. He would later resurface in films like Sin City and its sequel Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, and as Col. Jim Faith in Will Forte’s MacGruber. It’s also worth noting that he shared the screen a few times with Bill Paxton, who also passed away this year, in Tombstone, Hatfields and McCoys, and they both starred in Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. on the ABC network, although Powers actually appeared in the first Avengers film as well.
POWERS BOOTHE’S FILMOGRAPHY
| 1977 | The Goodbye Girl | Richard III Cast |
| 1980 | Cruising | Hankie Salesman |
| 1980 | The Cold Eye (My Darling, Be Careful) | N/A |
| 1981 | Southern Comfort | Hardin |
| 1984 | A Breed Apart | Mike Walker |
| 1984 | Red Dawn | Lt. Col. Andrew ‘Andy’ Tanner |
| 1985 | The Emerald Forest | Bill Markham |
| 1987 | Extreme Prejudice | Cash Bailey |
| 1988 | Sapphire Man (short) | Ryan |
| 1989 | Stalingrad | General Vasily Chuikov |
| 1992 | Rapid Fire | Mace Ryan |
| 1993 | Tombstone | Curly Bill Brocius |
| 1994 | Blue Sky | Vince Johnson |
| 1995 | Mutant Species | Frost |
| 1995 | Sudden Death | Joshua Foss |
| 1995 | Nixon | Alexander Haig |
| 1997 | Con Air | Officer at Leaving Ceremony (voice) |
| 1997 | U Turn | Sheriff Potter |
| 2000 | Men of Honor | Captain Pullman |
| 2001 | Frailty | FBI Agent Wesley Doyle |
| 2005 | Sin City | Senator Roark |
| 2006 | Superman: Brainiac Attacks | Lex Luthor (voice) |
| 2007 | The Final Season | Jim Van Scoyoc |
| 2008 | Edison and Leo | George T. Edison (voice) |
| 2010 | MacGruber | Col. Jim Faith |
| 2011 | Guns, Girls and Gambling | The Rancher |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Gideon Malick |
| 2013 | Straight A’s | Father |
| 2014 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Senator Roark |
POWER BOOTHE’S TELEVISION APPEARANCES
| 1980 | Skag | Whalen | 6 Episodes |
| 1980 | The Plutonium Incident | Dick Hawkins | Television film |
| 1980 | Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones | Jim Jones | Television film |
| 1980 | A Cry for Love | Tony Bonnell | Television film |
| 1983–1986 | Philip Marlowe, Private Eye | Philip Marlowe | 11 Episodes |
| 1987 | Into the Homeland | Jackson Swallow | Television film |
| 1990 | Family of Spies | John A. Walker Jr. | 2 Episodes |
| 1990 | By Dawn’s Early Light | Cassidy | Television film |
| 1992 | National Geographic: Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas | Narrator | Television documentary |
| 1992 | Wild Card | Preacher | Television film |
| 1993 | Marked for Murder | Mace ‘Sandman’ Moutron | Television film |
| 1994 | Web of Deception | Dr. Philip Benesch | Television film |
| 1996 | Dalva | Sam | Television film |
| 1997 | True Women | Bartlett McClure | Television film |
| 1998 | The Spree | Det. Bram Hatcher | Television film |
| 1999 | Joan of Arc | Jacques d’Arc | 3 Episodes |
| 1999 | A Crime of Passion | Dr. Ben Pierce | Television film |
| 2001 | Attila | Flavius Aetius | 2 Episodes |
| 2003 | Second Nature | Kelton Reed | Television film |
| 2002–2003 | Justice League | Gorilla Grodd (voice) | 4 Episodes |
| 2004–2006 | Deadwood | Cy Tolliver | 34 Episodes |
| 2005–2006 | Justice League Unlimited | Gorilla Grodd / Red Tornado (voice) | 5 Episodes |
| 2006 | National Geographic: Lions v. Hyenas | Narrator | Television documentary |
| 2007 | 24 | Vice President Noah Daniels | 14 Episodes |
| 2008 | 24: Redemption | President Noah Daniels | Television film |
| 2009 | Ben 10: Alien Force | Sunder (voice) | Episode: “Singlehanded” |
| 2010 | Ben 10: Ultimate Alien | Sunder (voice) | Episode: “The Transmogrification of Eunice” |
| 2011 | Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated | Dead Justice (voice) | Episode: “Dead Justice” |
| 2011 | The Looney Tunes Show | Leslie Hunt (voice) | 2 Episodes |
| 2012 | Hatfields & McCoys | Judge Valentine ‘Wall’ Hatfield | 3 Episodes |
| 2012–2014 | Nashville | Lamar Wyatt | 26 Episodes |
| 2015–2016 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Gideon Malick | 11 Episodes |
| 2015 | Moonbeam City | Eo Jaxxon (voice) | Episode: “Glitzotrene: One Town’s Seduction” |
