Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton was born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States on May 17th, 1955 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 61, Bill Paxton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017), an American actor and producer, was a director and producer.
He appeared in films including The Terminator (1984), Commando (1985), Weird Science (1985), Aliens (1989), Near Dark (1994), Predator 2 (1994), Anders of S.H.I.D. (1990), Predator (1996), Knight's (1990), The Terminator (1985), Monte (2005), Monty Joe Young (1995), Predator (1990), Trude (1999), Titanic (1990), Page of Tomorrow (1995), Tomb (2000) (2014).
During the show's run, he also appeared in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), receiving three Golden Globe Award nominations.
In the History channel miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actor Guild Award for portraying Randall McCoy.
His last film appearance was in The Circle, a year after his death, two months after.
Early life
Bill Paxton was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 17, 1955, the son of Mary Lou (née Gray), 1916–2004) and John Lane Paxton (1920–2011). His mother, a Roman Catholic, raised him and his siblings in her faith. His father was a businessman, lumber wholesaler, museum executive, and (during his son's career) an occasional actor, most notable in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films as Bernard Houseman and alongside Paxton in A Simple Plan (1998). Paxton was of Austrian, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Norwegian, Scotch-Irish, Swiss, and Welsh descent. Elisha Franklin Paxton (1828–1863), a brigadier general in the Confederate Army who was wounded commanding the Stonewall Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville, was his great-grandfather.
Paxton was vaguely related to actress Sara Paxton and was the great-nephew of Mary Paxton Keeley, a well-known journalist and close friend of Bess Truman. When President John F. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of his assassination on November 22, 1963, he was in the crowd. Photographs of Paxton being carried over the crowd are on display at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, Texas, where they are on display. Later, he co-produced the film Parkland about the assassination. Danny Martin, a former high school classmate, graduated from Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth in 1973, after which he attended Richmond College in London. They met Tom Huckabee, a Texas native, with whom they produced Super 8 short films for which they created their own sets. Paxton converted to Los Angeles, where he worked in props and art departments; after being rejected by film schools in Southern California, he shifted his attention away from teaching to acting.
Personal life
In 1979, Paxton married Kelly Rowan, but a year later, they separated. Louise Newbury was born on the Number 13 bus in London, where she was a student, and the pair were married in 1987. They lived in Ojai, California, and had two children: James (born 1994), who also acts as an actor, and Lydia (born 1997).
Career
Private William Hudson in Aliens (1986), one of Paxton's earliest contributions was as a mortuary assistant in Mortuary (1983), a minor role as a punk in The Terminator (1984), a supporting role as the lead protagonist's bullying older brother Chet Donnelly in John Hughes's Weird Science (1985).
Several short films, including the music video for Barnes & Barnes' novelty song "Fish Heads," which premiered during Saturday Night Live's low-rated 1980-1981 season and was in high rotation during the early days of Canadian music channel MuchMusic. He appeared in a music video for the 1982 Pat Benatar song "Shadows of the Night," in which he appeared as a Nazi radio officer.
Paxton appeared in the movie Stripes as a soldier in 1981, 1980, with John Candy and Bill Murray.
He appeared in The Terminator (1984) and in Commando (1985). On Aliens (1986), he reunited with Cameron (1986). Private Hudson's success in the new film earned him the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He appeared in Weird Science (1985). In Kathryn Bigelow's critically acclaimed neo-Western horror film Near Dark, Paxton played Severen, the most psychotic of the vampires.
Paxton first appeared in Predator 2 (1990). True Lies (1994) and Titanic (1997), the latter of which was the highest-grossing film of all time at its premiere, James Cameron collaborated with him again on True Lies (1994) and Titanic (1997). Paxton portrayed Morgan Earp in Tombstone (1993), Fred Haise in Apollo 13 (1995), Bill Harding in Twister (1996), and lead roles in films such as One False Move (1992) and A Simple Plan (1998). In 1990, he co-starred with Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn in Navy Seals.
Paxton appeared in Indian Summer (1993) and Mighty Joe Young (1998). Since 2000, he appeared in U-571 (2000), Vertical Limit (2000), Frailty (2001), Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004), Thunderbirds (2004), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Nightcrawler (2014).
Paxton produced Frailty (2001), in which he also appeared, and The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005). He joined Cameron on an expedition to the Titanic's wreck four years after appearing in Titanic. Ghosts of the Abyss, a film about this journey, was released in 2003. In addition, he appeared as a sheriff in Limp Bizkit's 2003 album "Eat You Alive." In addition, Paxton appeared in both Spy Kids 2 and Spy Kids 3-D.
His highest-profile television appearances have received a lot of praise, including his lead role in HBO's Big Love (2006–2011), for which Paxton received three Golden Globe Award nominations. He has also received raves for his role in Hatfields & McCoys (2012), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award alongside co-star Kevin Costner.
He appeared in Agents of S.H.I.L.D.'s 2014 film Edge of Tomorrow (no.). In the 2014 video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, he costarred with Jon Bernthal, Rose McGowan, and John Malkovich as a playable character. (Download "Exo Zombies" mode). In the Western miniseries Texas Rising for The History Channel in 2015, Paxton starred as General Sam Houston. Paxton was portrayed as Detective Frank Rourke for Training Day in February 2016, a crime-thriller television series set 15 years after the events of the eponymous 2001 film. It was released a year later. He made his last film appearance in The Circle (2017), which was released two months after his death.
Paxton and his colleague Andrew Todd Rosenthal formed Martini Ranch, a new wave musical band. On Sire Records, the band's first full length album, Holy Cow, was released in 1988. The album was produced by Devo member Bob Casale, and two other members of the band performed guest appearances. James Cameron produced the band's single "Reach" music video. Peter "Coconut Pete" Wabash of Broken Lizard's Club Dread were released posthumously on the album Take Another Hit: The Best of Coconut Pete in 2018.