The New York Times: Should You Be Able to Tell Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton Apart?
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Bill Paxton
William Paxton was an American actor, filmmaker and musician. A versatile character actor known for his distinctive Texan drawl and everyman screen persona, he was a four-time Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nominee, among other accolades.
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entertainment · American actor (1955–2017) · television actor · film actor · film director · actor · film producer · screenwriter · also Bill Paxton, William Paxton, William "Bill" Paxton, William Archibald Paxton, Wild Bill, Paxton
Born 17 May 1955 · Died 25 February 2017 · Q110374
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2026· 2 entries
AOL: Bill Paxton’s Death, 9 Years Later: Inside the Actor’s Sudden Decline After Planned Heart Surgery
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Family of Bill Paxton settles wrongful death lawsuit with Los Angeles hospital
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2019· 1 entry
Released ep “Take Another Hit: The Best of Coconut Pete (From "Broken Lizard's Club Dread")”.
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2018· 3 entries
The Guardian: Bill Paxton's family sue hospital for wrongful death
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Paxton's estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and surgeon Ali Khoynezhad
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His performances as Peter "Coconut Pete" Wabash in Broken Lizard's Club Dread were released posthumously on the album Take Another Hit: The Best of Coconut Pete
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2017· 8 entries
The Guardian: Bill Paxton remembered by Jennifer Aniston at Oscars ceremony
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The Guardian: Bill Paxton, star of Aliens, Titanic and Apollo 13, dies at 61
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The Guardian: Bill Paxton, actor and director, dies aged 61 – video obituary
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The Guardian: Bill Paxton – a life in pictures
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The Guardian: Bill Paxton: sad loss of a superb supporting actor with leading man chops | Peter Bradshaw
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While introducing the annual In Memoriam segment at the 89th Academy Awards the day after Paxton's death, a visibly emotional Jennifer Aniston paid tribute to him
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Died 2017-02-25.
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Underwent open-heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to repair the damaged valve and correct an aortic aneurysm
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2014· 1 entry
Played the role of the villainous John Garrett in Agents of S
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2011· 1 entry
The Guardian: Bill Paxton could direct Kung Fu feature
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2002· 1 entry
The Guardian: Film: Interview with Bill Paxton
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Apollo 13 (1996).
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1990· 2 entries
Paxton appeared in Predator 2 (1990)
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Co-starred with Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn in Navy Seals
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1987· 1 entry
Paxton played the most psychotic of the vampires, Severen, in Kathryn Bigelow's critically acclaimed neo-Western horror film Near Dark
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1982· 1 entry
Paxton and his friend Andrew Todd Rosenthal formed a new wave musical band called Martini Ranch
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1981· 1 entry
Paxton worked in the movie Stripes as a soldier, in the bar scene with John Candy and Bill Murray
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1973· 1 entry
After which he studied at Richmond College in London, alongside his old high-school friend Danny Martin
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1955· 2 entries
The son of Mary Lou (née Gray; 1926–2016) and John Lane Paxton (1920–2011)
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Born 1955-05-17.
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