American character actor Powers Boothe was born in Texas and studied at Southern Methodist University before spending several years in regional theater. He began showing up in films and TV during the '80s. He won an Emmy for his intense portrayal of the Reverend Jim Jones, a minister who led a mass suicide in the two-part CBS miniseries Guyana Tragedy. In 1983, Boothe joined the distinguished company of Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery, and Humphrey Bogart when he stepped into the role of cool private eye Philip Marlowe for a series of HBO specials. Throughout the rest of the '80s, he played authority figures in action movies like Red Dawn, Extreme Prejudice, Rapid Fire, and Tombstone.
However good at being a tough guy, Boothe excelled at his dramatic opportunities as well. In 1987 he played a father searching for his son in John Boorman's The Emerald Forest. In 1995, he portrayed Alexander Haig in Oliver Stone's biopic Nixon. Boothe then re-teamed with the director for his next film, U-Turn. In 2000 he starred as Navy mentor Captain Pullman in Men of Honor with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro. The next year he portrayed the Roman General Flavius Aetius in the USA network original miniseries Attila. After returning to his home state of Texas to play Agent Wesley Doyle in Bill Paxton's directorial debut, Frailty, Boothe joined the cast of the 2004 HBO Western series Deadwood.
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Hatfields & McCoys
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Marvel's The Avengers
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MacGruber
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2010 | |||
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24: Redemption
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2008 | |||
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Edison and Leo
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2008 | |||
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Nick Nolte: No Exit
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24: Season 06
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2007 | |||
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The Final Season
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2007 | |||
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Deadwood: Season 03
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Deadwood: Season 02
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Sin City
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2005 | |||
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Deadwood [TV Series]
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2004 | |||
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Deadwood: Season 01
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2004 | |||
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Deadwood: Sold Under Sin
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Second Nature
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2003 | |||
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Frailty
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2002 | |||
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Attila
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2001 | |||
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Men of Honor
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2000 | |||
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A Crime of Passion
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1999 | |||
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Joan of Arc
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1999 | |||
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True Women
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1997 | |||
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U-Turn
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1997 | |||
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Dalva
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1996 | |||
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Mutant Species
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1995 | |||
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Nixon
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1995 | |||
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Sudden Death
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1995 | |||
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Tragediya Veka
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1995 | |||
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Blue Sky
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1994 | |||
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Puppies!
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1994 | |||
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Angely Smerti
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1993 | |||
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Marked for Murder
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1993 | |||
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Tombstone
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1993 | |||
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Rapid Fire
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1992 | |||
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Wild Card
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1992 | |||
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Wildcard
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1992 | |||
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By Dawn's Early Light
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1989 | |||
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Stalingrad
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1989 | |||
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The Spree
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1988 | |||
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Extreme Prejudice
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1987 | |||
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Into the Homeland
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1987 | |||
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The Emerald Forest
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A Breed Apart
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1984 | |||
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Red Dawn
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1984 | |||
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Southern Comfort
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1981 | |||
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A Cry for Love
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1980 | |||
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Cruising
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1980 | |||
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The Plutonium Incident
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1980 | |||
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Skag
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1979 | |||
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The Goodbye Girl
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