Science Fiction Actor Bill Paxton Dies At Age 61 (ew.com)

Bill Paxton died Saturday at the age of 61 after complications from surgery. An anonymous reader remembers Paxton's work with some YouTube clips: Bill Paxton starred in a surprising number of cult science fiction favorites. After playing both the blue-haired punk rocker who confronts The Terminator and the mean older brother in John Hughes' nerd comedy Weird Science, Paxton was cast as private Hudson in Aliens, the soldier who at one point wails "Game over, man!" Sigourney Weaver called his performance "brilliant," while James Cameron said Paxton's character released some of the audience's tension. [For Hudson's climactic final showdown with the aliens] "Bill made up different dialogue on every take, and he was yelling it over a machine gun, so none of it actually recorded."

Paxton also appeared in Predator 2, Apollo 13, Twister, and James Cameron's Titanic. Most recently he provided the voice of the executive Kahn in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and had a recurring role as Hydra agent John Garrett in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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The only actor to...

[skam240]

The only actor to be killed by an Alien, Predator, and Terminator!

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[invid]

I remember first seeing that scene in the theater and laughing and hearing audience members already repeating his line right there, because while we had seen plenty of situations in movies and tv where the characters were in hopeless situations, it was the first time we saw a character lose it like that. I think we, in the audience, were thinking, "Finally someone reacting like a real person would in a crazy movie scenario."