Powers Boothe
Birthday: Born in 1948-06-01 in Snyder, Texas, U.S.
Deathday: 2017-05-14
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Powers Allen Boothe (June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017) was an American television and film actor. He won an Emmy in 1980 for his portrayal of Jim Jones in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. He also played saloon owner Cy Tolliver on Deadwood, "Curly Bill" Brocius in Tombstone, President Noah Daniels on 24, and Lamar Wyatt in Nashville. Description above from the Wikipedia article Powers Boothe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Deadwood
Character: Cy Tolliver
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen....
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Character: Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO....
True Women
Character: Bartlett McClure
A story of love, friendship, survival and triumph spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond....
Hatfields & McCoys
Character: Judge Valentine 'Wall' Hatfield
It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare bet...
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Character: Dead Justice (voice)
This incarnation of the popular cartoon series finds Scooby and the gang living in Crystal Cove, a small town with a long history of ghost sightings, monster tales and other mysteries ripe for the sleuths to solve once and for all. But the longstanding Crystal Cove residents, who bank on the town's reputation to attract tourists, are prepared to do what it takes to protect their turf....
Nashville
Character: Lamar Wyatt
Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the up-and-coming performers and songwriters trying to get ahead in the business....
Justice League
Character: Gorilla Grodd (voice)
The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter....
Justice League Unlimited
Character: Gorilla Grodd (voice)
The galaxy's most powerful superheroes return to battle the allied villains and criminal plots that endanger the universe....
24
Character: Vice President Noah Daniels
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season....
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Character: Sunder (voice)
With his secret identity now revealed to the world, Ben Tennyson continues to fight evil as a superhero with the help of the newly acquired Ultimatrix....
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Character: Gideon Malick
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary....
Attila
Character: Flavius Aetius
Attila was an American TV miniseries set during the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, in particular during the invasions of the Huns in Europe....
Family of Spies
Character: John Walker
In the late 1960s, a US Navy petty officer, with access to major state secrets and large debts, begins selling information to the Soviets....
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Character: Rev. Jim Jones
The story of the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown....
Joan of Arc
Character: Jacques D'Arc
Joan of Arc is born in 1412 in the village of Domrémy in the war zone of Northern France. During her youth she often witnesses the horrors of war, but her spirit is kept high by the legend of the Maiden of Lorraine. This says that a young maiden one day will unite the divided country and lead the people to freedom....
Movie Credits
Sin City
Character: Senator Roark
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care....
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Character: Senator Roark
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants....
U Turn
Character: Sheriff Virgil Potter
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both....
Red Dawn
Character: Andy
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces....
Nixon
Character: Alexander Haig
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency....
Extreme Prejudice
Character: Cash Bailey
A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries......
By Dawn's Early Light
Character: Cassidy
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over....
The Emerald Forest
Character: Bill Markham
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, T...
The Avengers
Character: World Security Council
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!...
Tombstone
Character: Curly Bill Brocius
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town....
Frailty
Character: FBI Agent Wesley Doyle
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."...
Southern Comfort
Character: Hardin
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience....
Sudden Death
Character: Joshua Foss
When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue her and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer....
Rapid Fire
Character: Mace Ryan
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin....
The Final Season
Character: Jim Van Scoyoc
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early '90s gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach of the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coach's shoes and that they can go out winners. In the summer of 1991 Norway High's baseball tradition ended on a triumphant but sombre note....
Edison And Leo
Character: George T. Edison (voice)
The film is about the relationship between crazy scientist George Edison and his son Leo. After being electrocuted as a child, Leo is no longer able to touch people without electrocuting them....
MacGruber
Character: Col. Jim Faith
Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC....
Second Nature
Character: Kelton Reed
Everything is not as it seems for a man who recovers from a plane crash in which his family is killed. After plastic surgery and rehabilitation, he determines that he worked for a secret agency for which he was an assassin. His former boss puts him back to work to assassinate a political leader, but when he proves unable to pull the trigger, it is he who becomes the target for assassins. As he avoids capture, the story unfolds about his true past and the reason why he has a tattoo of "chilly wil...
Superman: Brainiac Attacks
Character: Lex Luthor (voice)
Embittered by Superman's heroic successes and soaring popularity, Lex Luthor forms a dangerous alliance with the powerful computer/villain Brainiac. Using advanced weaponry and a special strain of Kryptonite harvested from the far reaches of outer space, Luthor specifically redesigns Brainiac to defeat the Man of Steel....
Mouth of Caddo
Character: Narrator
We follow three outlaws; Will Edwards, James McKinnon and 'Kid Called Kelly' as they escape from the law through the rough terrain of 1870s Texas....
Blue Sky
Character: Vince Johnson
Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing, though his superiors hold contrary views and want to squelch his concerns...and his reports. The other problem is his wife, Carly. She is voluptuous and volatile, wreaking havoc in his personal life...
A Breed Apart
Character: Mike Walker
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs....
Nick Nolte: No Exit
Character: Self
A frank and unconventional view of the life and work of actor Nick Nolte....
Marked for Murder
Character: Mace 'Sandman' Moutron
Mace Moutron, The Sandman, is released from prison to take part in a project where convicts assist the police in their job. Mace isn't used to playing by the rules, and he's frustrated with the corruption and impotence of the police. When he takes action against a local drug lord, the conflict becomes personal....
Into the Homeland
Character: Jackson Swallow
A man's daughter disappears after falling in love with the son of a right wing, white-supremacist terrorist organization....
Web of Deception
Character: Dr. Phillip Pearloff
A forensic psychatrist of the Police Department falls for a fatal attraction that threatens to terminate his marriage, his career and his life....
Straight A's
Character: Father
Pressured by his late mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport....
Mutant Species
Character: Frost
A rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in a remote wooded area. An army team is sent to recover it. One of the men is infected and mutates into a monster, killing most of the rest of the team. One man escapes with the help of a brother & sister who live in the woods. He then tries to stop his former buddy, while also fighting against another army team sent in to destroy everything. The bio-material was supposed to create a super-soldier, ...
Guns, Girls and Gambling
Character: The Rancher
The story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino...
Skag
Character: Jim Whalen
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems....
The Plutonium Incident
Character: Dick Hawkins
A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril....
Dalva
Character: Sam
The sweeping story of Dalva Northridge, a young woman of part-Sioux heritage from an old, landed family on the Nebraska plains, and of her lifelong yearning for the man she loved and the son she gave up....
Men of Honor
Character: Captain Pullman
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor....
Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas
Character: Narrator
Trek into the hidden battlefields of northern Botswana where lions and spotted hyenas clash in overlapping territories. With never-before-seen footage, much of it filmed at night, you'll uncover an intense and vicious blood feud that has been waged for millennia. Follow the Southern Clan, led by a powerful hyena matriarch whose firstborn female cub kills her sister at birth to assure her succession as leader of the clan. Lurk in the shadows as a lioness from the Central Pride gives birth to thre...
Cruising
Character: Hankie Salesman
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows....
Tattoo
Character: The Gambler
A stranger approaches an aged tattoo artist with a special artistic and mystical request - He wants to know if the tattoo artist can copy an image he has onto his skin. The old man is amazed and shaken by the image. He knows its powerful history and reveals a bit of it to the young stranger....
Wild Card
Character: Preacher
Thriller about a former preacher, now a professional gambler, who heads down New Mexico way to visit an old buddy, only for him to be killed. It is not long before the Preacher is uncovering a hotbed of corruption and murder in the seemingly peaceful town, aptly named Farewell....
A Crime of Passion
Character: Dr. Ben Pierce
When a physician is murdered, his eldest daughter is accused of the crime, but the man's seductive new wife may not be all that she appears....
Stalingrad
Character: Vasily Ivanovich Chuykov
The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war....
Dead of Winter: The Donner Party
Character: Narrator
What starts out as a voyage to the West in pursuit of the American Dream quickly turns deadly for the Donner party after a series of bad decisions and severe weather. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, this group of nearly 80 settlers fell prey to sub-zero temperatures, torrential rainfalls, extreme heat, and ten-foot snow drifts. Punishing storms trapped the party with nearly no food or shelter for 5 months in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Many died, some succumbed to cannibalism to survive...
The Goodbye Girl
Character: Richard III Cast
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor....
Ottoman Empire: The War Machine
Character: Narrator
This History Channel documentary traces the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings in the 14th century to its incarnation as one of the largest empires in history, spanning three continents....
Attila
Character: Flavius Aetius
A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome....
24: Redemption
Character: President Noah Daniels
Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training....