"The Onion Field" Kidnapping & Murder 1963

The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during a traffic stop and the subsequent murder of one of the officers.

 

Crime

On the night of March 9, 1963, LAPD officers Ian Campbell (age 31) and Karl Hettinger (age 28), both former Marines, were riding in an unmarked "felony" car. They pulled over a 1946 Ford coupe containing two suspicious-looking men at the corner of Carlos Avenue and Gower Street in Hollywood.[2][3] The two men, Gregory Ulas Powell (age 30) and Jimmy Lee Smith (a.k.a. "Jimmy Youngblood," age 32), had recently committed a string of robberies, and "each had a pistol tucked into his trousers."[2] Powell, the driver, pulled a gun on Campbell, who "calmly told his partner, 'He has a gun in my back. Give him your gun.'" The two officers were then forced into Powell's car and, within 30 seconds after the traffic stop began, were driven north from Los Angeles on Route 99, to an onion field near Bakersfield, where Campbell was fatally shot.[2] Hettinger was able to escape, running nearly four miles to reach a farmhouse.[3]

The killing occurred primarily because Powell assumed that the kidnapping of the officers alone already constituted a capital crime under the state's Little Lindbergh Law. However, Powell's interpretation was incorrect. Under the Little Lindbergh Law kidnapping became a capital crime only if the victim were harmed or if a ransom were demanded. (Today, kidnapping in California, where there is bodily harm short of death, is punishable either by imprisonment for 25 years to life, or by life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Aftermath

In April 1982, following the release from prison of Powell's accomplice, Jimmy Lee Smith, Valerie Campbell, daughter of the slain Officer Ian Campbell, contacted John Mancino, founder of Citizens for Truth, an organization that had recently led a successful petition effort to rescind the parole date of convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, killer of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

Mancino drafted a petition to have Powell's scheduled release rescinded and with Valerie Campbell's help collected 31,500 signatures in three-and-a-half weeks, which were submitted to the California Board of Prison Terms, along with several thousand letters. The parole board then held a hearing and eventually rescinded Powell's release date.

Following this, Powell's attorney was successful in convincing Solano County Superior Court Judge, Ellis Randall, to order Powell's release from prison in ten days, ruling that Citizens for Truth's public outcry was the sole reason Powell's release was rescinded, which at the time was legally improper. Valerie Campbell then joined Citizens for Truth's representatives, John Mancino and Dr. Howard Garber, along with the group's attorneys, in filing a legal brief in the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco, demanding that Powell remain in prison.

The group prevailed both at the appeals court and the California Supreme Court, thereby leading to Powell's spending the rest of his life in prison, where he died in 2012.

On August 10, 2012, the intersection of Carlos Avenue and Gower Street in Hollywood, the site of the officers' abduction, was named “Ian Campbell Square” in honor of the slain officer. 

Additionally, a section of the Hollywood Freeway (California State Route 101) in Hollywood, from Hollywood Boulevard to Highland Avenue, was designated the “Ian J. Campbell Memorial Freeway."[4]

Hettinger

Though Hettinger was able to escape, he felt scorned by his fellow officers and officials at the Los Angeles Police Department[5] and suffered severe emotional trauma for both the initial incident and the following treatment. Eventually a police training video was made using his experience as an example of what not to do when stopping and approaching a vehicle.

Hettinger was forced to resign from the LAPD in 1966, after being accused of shoplifting. Years later, Hettinger was elected to serve as a Supervisor for Kern County, California, where he served multiple consecutive terms. He died of liver disease in 1994, at the age of 59.[6]

The suspects

Powell was arrested on the night of the murder, after being spotted driving a stolen vehicle by California Highway Patrol officers. The following day, Smith was apprehended as well. The lead LAPD investigator on the case was Sergeant Pierce Brooks. Both suspects were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Ultimately, they received life sentences. For each, the lower court sentence followed a second trial and several appeals. Their death sentences were vacated when the California Supreme Court ruled in California v. Anderson (1972) that California's death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment.[7]

Powell

At a parole board hearing on January 27, 2010, Powell was denied parole. In a January 21, 2010 letter to state corrections officials, Los Angeles Police Union President Paul Weber urged the board to deny parole, calling Powell a "vicious murderer who has not yet paid his debt to society."

On October 18, 2011, the California State Parole Board denied compassionate release for Powell, who had been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. The board stated that Powell did not wish to be released from prison and was likely to be uncooperative if paroled.[8] Powell died on August 12, 2012, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. He was 79 years old.[9]

Smith

Smith was initially released in 1982 but returned to prison several additional times on drug-related parole violations. In December 2006, he failed to report to his parole officer, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. In February 2007, a man matching Smith's description was detained by police in Los Angeles' Skid Row area and eventually identified as Smith. He was arrested, charged with violating his parole, and sent to the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, California. On April 7, 2007, while in that facility, he died of an apparent heart attack at age 76.[10]

Film adaptations

The book was adapted into an 1979 film of the same name directed by Harold Becker. It starred John Savage as Karl Hettinger, James Woods as Gregory Powell, Franklyn Seales as Jimmy Smith, and Ted Danson (in his film debut) as Ian Campbell.[11]

TNT's Southland season 5, episode 9 ("Chaos"; airdate April 10, 2013) portrayed a reimagined version of the events that took place in The Onion Field.[12][13]

The Adam-12 episode "Killing Ground" was based on this incident. Officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed are kidnapped by two armed robbers on the run. The only difference is Malloy and Reed are able to escape and turn the tables on their captors.

References

1. Modern first editions - a set on Flickr
2. Krajicek, David J. (March 25, 2008). "The Justice Story: Murder in the Onion Field". Special to The News (New York Daily News).
3. "'Onion Field' killer dead at 76". Archived from the original on 2007-04-10. Retrieved 2007-04-08.
4. "Onion Field Killer's Death Brings Closure for LAPD, Chief Says". Los Angeles Times. August 13, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
5. Oliver, Myrna (December 9, 2002). "John W. Powers, 90; Legendary Officer in LAPD for 31 Years". Los Angeles Times.
6. Malnic, Eric (May 5, 1994). "Karl Hettinger; Survived 1963 'Onion Field' Attack". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
7. Krajicek, David J. (March 25, 2008). "The Justice Story: Murder in the Onion Field". Special to The News.
8. Associated Press (October 18, 2011). "'Onion Field' Killer Will Not Be Released". Associated Press.
9. Associated Press (August 13, 2012). "'Onion Field' Killer Dies in Calif. Prison". ABC.
10. Quinones, Sam (April 7, 2007). "Jimmy Lee Smith, infamous 'Onion Field' cop killer, dead at 76". Los Angeles Times.
11. The Onion Field on IMDb.
12. Sepinwall, Alan (April 11, 2013). "Review: 'Southland' - 'Chaos': The onion field". Hitfix.
13. "SouthLAnd S5E9 "Chaos" review". SouthLand First. April 12, 2013.

Bush Pilot Ernest Joseph Boffa 2004 Westwood Village Cemetery

Ernest Joseph Boffa (April 16, 1904 – March 8, 2004) was a pioneering Canadian bush pilot.

Biography

Born on April 16, 1904 in Piedmont, Italy, Ernest Joseph Boffa relocated as a young child to Canada with his family, living first in Calgary and then in Thunder Bay (Fort William), Ontario. He left school in 1918 to go full-time at his job in a bicycle shop. He moved on the Canadian Car and Foundry, working as an apprentice while training in mechanical engineering and drafting through correspondence courses and night school. He took up automobile racing after his employer closed, using his mechanical skills to help him produce and maintain winning cars.

In 1927, Boffa moved to Great Falls, Montana taking up flying and aircraft repair. He earned a license to fly in the United States in 1928 and refurbished a damaged Waco 10 plane before returning to Lethbridge, Alberta. There, in 1931, he received a commercial pilots license and Canadian Engineers license, working such aviation jobs as he could find before taking a series of jobs with airlines beginning in 1937, M and C Airways, [[Canadian Airway}]] and McNeal Air Services. During World War II, he was a flight instructor until 1943, when he began flying for Canadian Pacific Airways on the Yellowknife Airways, which he co-owned on a 20/80 split with Matt Berry. In 1954, he became involved with the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line as a technical adviser. From 1956 to 1962, he was a contract pilot and, from 1962 to 1970, flew for a fishing lodge on Great Bear Lake.

Prior to working for the DEWline Ernie was a well known bush pilot flying for Associated Airways. On occasion he would stop off at any handy lake to try a little fishing. This at times caused other to think he was lost. He used to boast that others might consider him lost but he was never lost. He always knew where he was.

Ernest Joseph Boffa died in Los Angeles, California, USA, on March 8, 2004. He is interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.

Honours and legacy

Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame (1993)

References

Oswald, Mary, They Led the Way, Wetaskiwin: Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, 1999. ISBN 0-9684843-0-1

Pharmacy Businessman Bernard Joseph Schwab 2003 Hillside Cemetery

Bernard Joseph Schwab (April 4, 1909 - March 5, 2003) last survivor of the four brothers (Bernard, Leon, Jack, and Martin) who founded Hollywood’s fabled Schwab’s Pharmacy on Sunset Boulevard. Bernard was born in Philadelphia on Oct. 2, 1908, to Polish immigrants. After moving to Los Angeles, the brothers bought a failing drugstore on Sunset Boulevard in 1932, attached their name to it and began catering to actors, writers and others who frequented nearby studios (Republic, RKO, Columbia), helping with credit and installing a special phone so hopefuls could receive incoming calls from studios and agents. There were six stores at the peak of their success, but the Sunset Boulevard location was the most famous. 

Leon, Jack and Bernard Schwab

Schwab's was featured in Gloria Swanson's tour de force film "Sunset Boulevard," co-written and directed by Billy Wilder in 1950. William Holden's character in the film, screenwriter Joe Gillis, is rebuffed by a studio magnate and then narrates: "After that, I drove down to headquarters. That's the way a lot of us think about Schwab's. Kind of a combination office, coffee klatch and waiting room. Waiting, waiting for the gravy train."

Schwab's fell on hard times and closed in 1983. All the contents were auctioned to satisfy debts, and the building was razed to make way for a shopping complex.

Widowed since the death of his wife, Frances, Bernard Schwab was survived by four sons, Leland, Michael, John and Robert; 12 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Bernard was active in the Wisdom Masonic Lodge 202, Scottish Rite Temple, Al Malaikah Temple and the Peace Officers Shrine Club. Bernard and Frances Schwab are interred at Hillside Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Schwab's Pharmacy was a drugstore located at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, and was a popular hangout for movie actors and movie industry dealmakers from the 1930s through the 1950s.[1]

History

Opened in 1932 by the Schwab brothers, Schwab's Pharmacy in Hollywood became the most famous and longest operating outlet of their small retail chain.[2] Like many drug stores in the United States during the mid-twentieth century, Schwab's sold medicines and had a counter serving ice cream dishes and light meals.

Schwab's closed in October 1983.[3] Five years later, on October 6, 1988, the building was demolished to make way for a shopping complex and multiplex theater.

Sidney Skolsky, a syndicated Hollywood gossip columnist for the New York Daily News who was the first journalist to use the nickname "Oscar" for the Academy Award in print, made Schwab's famous in the 1930s. He used the drugstore as his office, and called his column in Photoplay, the premiere movie magazine in the U.S. at the time, "From A Stool At Schwab's."[4]

A persistent Hollywood legend has it that actress Lana Turner was "discovered" by director Mervyn LeRoy while at the soda counter at Schwab's. While the 16-year-old Turner was discovered at a soda counter, the location was not Schwab's but another establishment, the Top Hat Cafe, farther east on Sunset Boulevard at McCadden Place, directly across the street from Hollywood High School where she was still a student. The person who discovered her was not LeRoy but The Hollywood Reporter publisher William Wilkerson.[5][6]

Schwab's was never really referred to as Schwab's Pharmacy, but as Schwab's Drug Store.

References

1. Alleman, Richard (2005). Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide : The Ultimate Insider Tour to Movie L.A. Random House. p. 73. ISBN 0-7679-1635-2.
2. William-Ross, Lindsay (21 March 2009). "LAistory: Schwab's Pharmacy". LAist. Archived from the original on 25 March 2009.
3. "Schwab's, Hollywood Drugstore, Shut". The New York Times. United Press International. 25 October 1983.
4. "Daughter of Famed Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky Passes". The Marilyn Monroe Collection. 2 March 2010.
5. Ponder, Jon (4 June 2013). "Schwab's Drug Store: Where Lana Turner Was Not Discovered". Playground to the Stars.
6. Wilkerson, W.R., III (1 July 1995). "Writing the End to a True-to-Life Cinderella Story". Los Angeles Times.

"Big Love" Actor Bill Paxton 2017 Forest Lawn Cemetery Hollywood Hills

William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor and director. He appeared in films such as The Terminator (1984), Weird Science (1985), Aliens (1986), Predator 2 (1990), Tombstone (1993), True Lies (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Twister (1996), Titanic (1997), U-571 (2000), Vertical Limit (2000), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Nightcrawler (2014). He also starred in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), earning three Golden Globe Award nominations during the show's run.[2] He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for portraying Randall McCoy in the History channel miniseries Hatfields and McCoys (2012).[3][4] Paxton's final film appearance was in The Circle (2017), released two months after his death.[5]

Early life

Paxton (the child seen raised above the crowd) before JFK emerges from Hotel Texas on November 22, 1963 Paxton was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Mary Lou (née Gray) and John Lane Paxton. His father was a businessman, lumber wholesaler, museum executive, and occasional actor, most notably appearing in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films.[6] Paxton's great-great-grandfather was Elisha Franklin Paxton, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, who was killed commanding the legendary Stonewall Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Bill's mother was Roman Catholic, and he and his siblings were raised in her faith.[7] Paxton was in the crowd when President John F. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas on the morning of his assassination on November 22, 1963. Photographs of an eight-year-old Paxton being lifted above the crowd are on display at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas.[8][9] He later co-produced the film Parkland, about the assassination.

On the Marc Maron podcast, Paxton revealed that at the age of 13, he contracted rheumatic fever, which had damaged his heart. During his teens, Paxton worked as a paper delivery boy with Mike Muir.[10]

Career

Paxton at the Dallas International Film Festival, 2010 Among Paxton's earliest roles were a minor role as a punk thug in The Terminator (1984), a supporting role as the lead protagonist's bullying older brother Chet Donnelly in John Hughes' Weird Science (1985), and the melodramatic Private Hudson in Aliens (1986).

He directed several short films, including the music video for Barnes and Barnes' novelty song "Fish Heads," which aired during Saturday Night Live's low-rated 1980–81 season. He was cast in a music video for the 1982 Pat Benatar song "Shadows of the Night" in which he appeared as a Nazi radio officer.

Music career

In 1982, Paxton and his friend, Andrew Todd Rosenthal, formed a new wave musical band called Martini Ranch. The band released its only full-length album, Holy Cow, in 1988 on Sire Records.[11] The album was produced by Devo member, Bob Casale, and featured guest appearances by two other members of that band.[12] The music video for the band's single "Reach" was directed by James Cameron.[13]

1980s

Paxton worked with Cameron on The Terminator (1984) and then reunited with him on Aliens (1986). His performance in the latter as Private Hudson earned him the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.[14]

1990s

He and Cameron collaborated again on True Lies (1994) and Titanic (1997), the latter of which was the highest-grossing film of all time at its release. 

In his other roles, Paxton played Morgan Earp in Tombstone (1993), Fred Haise in Apollo 13 (1995), the lead in Twister (1996), and lead roles in dark dramas 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.

2000s–2010s

Paxton directed the feature films Frailty (2001), in which he starred and The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005).[15] Four years after appearing in Titanic, he joined Cameron on an expedition to the actual Titanic. A film about this trip, Ghosts of the Abyss was released in 2003.[15] He also appeared in the music video for Limp Bizkit's 2003 song "Eat You Alive" as a sheriff.

His highest profile television performances received much positive attention, including his lead role in HBO's Big Love (2006–2011), for which Paxton received three Golden Globe Award nominations. 

Paxton also received good reviews for his performance in the History Channel's miniseries Hatfields and McCoys (2012), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award alongside co-star, Kevin Costner.

In 2014, he played the role of the villainous John Garrett in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and a supporting role in Edge of Tomorrow (2014).[15] He starred alongside Jon Bernthal, Rose McGowan, and John Malkovich as a playable character in the 2014 video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (downloadable "Exo Zombies" mode).[16] In February 2016, Paxton was cast as Detective Frank Rourke for Training Day, a crime-thriller television series set 15 years after the events of the eponymous 2001 movie; it premiered a year later.[17]

Personal life

Paxton was married to Kelly Rowan from 1979 to 1980. In 1987, he married Louise Newbury, and they had two children: James and Lydia.[18]

In February 2017, a few weeks prior to having cardiac surgery, and ultimately his death, Paxton stated in an interview with Marc Maron that he had a damaged heart valve, the result of suffering from rheumatic fever in his youth.[19]

Death

On February 25, 2017, Paxton died at the age of 61.[20][21] A representative for the family released the following statement to the press on February 26:

“ It is with heavy hearts we share the news that Bill Paxton has passed away due to complications from surgery. A loving husband and father, Bill began his career in Hollywood working on films in the art department and went on to have an illustrious career spanning four decades as a beloved and prolific actor and filmmaker. Bill's passion for the arts was felt by all who knew him, and his warmth and tireless energy were undeniable. We ask to please respect the family's wish for privacy as they mourn the loss of their adored husband and father.[22] ” 

Paxton's official cause of death was a stroke, precipitated by complications after a heart valve and aorta surgery he underwent on February 14, 2017.[23][1] It was later revealed that Paxton had suffered rheumatic fever as a child, which had caused heart damage early in his life.[24] He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Hollywood Hills.

Upon learning of his death, a number of storm chasers paid tribute to his Twister role by spelling out his initials via the Spotter Network.[25]

The film Call Me by Your Name, released in November 2017 was dedicated to Paxton's memory. Peter Spears, producer of the film explained that this was because his husband, Brian Swardstorm, who was also Paxton's best friend and agent visited the set with Paxton during filming and befriended the film's director, Luca Guadagnino, who ultimately decided to dedicate the movie "in loving memory of Bill Paxton."[26]

Numerous other filmmakers and actors also paid tribute, including Tom Hanks,[27] Charlize Theron,[27] Jordan Peele,[27] William Shatner,[27] Jamie Lee Curtis,[27] as well as his years-long Big Love co-stars Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin.[27] Sevigny remembered Paxton as "one of the less cynical, jaded people I’ve ever met in the business . . . He believed in entertainment being transportive and transformative. He believed in the magic of what we can bring to people. That was really a gift that he gave to me."[28]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.

1975 Crazy Mama John Uncredited [29]
1981 Stripes Soldier [15]
1982 Night Warning Eddie [30]
1983 Taking Tiger Mountain Billy Hampton [31]
1983 The Lords of Discipline Gilbreath [15]
1983 Mortuary Paul Andrews [15]

1984 Streets of Fire Clyde the Bartender [15]

1984 Impulse Eddie [15]
1984 The Terminator Punk Leader [15]
1985 Weird Science Chet Donnelly [15]
1985 Commando Intercept Officer [15]
1986 Aliens Private William Hudson [15]

1987 Near Dark Severen [15]

1988 Pass the Ammo Jesse Wilkes [15]
1989 Slipstream Matt Owens [15]
1989 Next of Kin Gerald Gates [15]
1989 Back to Back Bo Brand [15]
1990 Brain Dead Jim Reston [15]
1990 The Last of the Finest Howard 'Hojo' Jones [15]
1990 Navy SEALs Dane [15]

1990 Predator 2 Jerry Lambert [15]

1991 The Dark Backward Gus [15]
1992 The Vagrant Graham Krakowski [15]

1992 One False Move Dale 'Hurricane' Dixon [15]

1992 Trespass Vince [15]
1993 Monolith Tucker [15]
1993 Indian Summer Jack Belston [15]
1993 Boxing Helena Ray O'Malley [15]
1993 Tombstone Morgan Earp [15]
1994 True Lies Simon [15]

1994 Frank and Jesse Frank James [15]

1994 Future Shock Vince [15]
1995 The Last Supper Zachary Cody [15]

1995 Apollo 13 Fred Haise [15]

1996 Twister Bill "The Extreme" Harding [15]
1996 The Evening Star Jerry Bruckner [15]
1997 Traveller Bokky [15]
1997 Titanic Brock Lovett [15]
1998 A Simple Plan Hank [15]
1998 A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann [15]
1998 Mighty Joe Young Professor Gregory O'Hara [15]

2000 U-571 Lieutenant Commander Mike Dahlgren [15]

2000 Vertical Limit Elliot Vaughn [15]
2001 Frailty Dad Meiks Also director [15]
2002 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams Dinky Winks [15]
2003 Ghosts of the Abyss Himself/Narrator [15]
2003 Resistance Major Theodore 'Ted' Brice [32]
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Dinky Winks [15]
2004 Club Dread Coconut Pete [15]
2004 Thunderbirds Jeff Tracy [15]

2004 Haven Carl Ridley [33]

2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Edgar Mitchell Short film [34]
2005 The Greatest Game Ever Played — Director [15]
2007 The Good Life Robbie [15]
2011 Haywire John Kane
2011 Tornado Alley Narrator
2012 Shanghai Calling Donald [35]

2013 The Colony Mason [15]

2013 2 Guns Earl [15]
2013 Red Wing Jim Verret [15]
2014 Million Dollar Arm Tom House [15] 

2014 Edge of Tomorrow Master Sergeant Farell [15]

2014 Nightcrawler Joe Loder [15]

2015 Pixies Eddie Beck Voice role
2016 Term Life Detective Keenan [15]
2016 Mean Dreams Wayne Caraway [15]

2017 The Circle Vinnie Holland Posthumous release [15]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.

1983 Deadly Lessons Eddie Fox Movie [15]
1985 An Early Frost Bob Maracek Movie [15]
1985 The Atlanta Child Murders Campbell Movie [15]
1986 Fresno Billy Joe Bobb Miniseries (4 episodes) [15]
1986 Miami Vice Detective Vic Romano Episode: "Streetwise" [36]
1987 The Hitchhiker Trout Episode: "Made for Each Other" [6]

1993 Tales from the Crypt Billy DeLuca Episode: "People Who Live in Brass Hearses" [36]

1995 "Frank and Jesse" Movie
1998 A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann Movie [15]
2003 Frasier Ernie Episode: "Analyzed Kiss" [36]
2006–11 Big Love Bill Henrickson Lead role (53 episodes) [37]
2012 Hatfields and McCoys Randolph McCoy 3 episodes [37]
2013 JFK: The Day That Changed Everything Narrator Documentary [38]
2014 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. John Garrett 6 episodes [36]

2015 Texas Rising Sam Houston Miniseries [39][40]

2015 The Gamechangers Jack Thompson Movie [41]
2017 Training Day Detective Frank Roarke Lead role (13 episodes) [36]

Music videos

Year Title Artist Role Notes Ref.

1980 "Fish Heads" Barnes and Barnes Main character Director [42]
1982 "Shadows of the Night" Pat Benatar Wehrmacht-Unteroffizier [6]
1987 "Touched by the Hand of God" New Order [43]
1988 "Reach" Martini Ranch Main character [6]
2003 "Eat You Alive" Limp Bizkit Sheriff [6]

Video game

Year Title Role Notes Ref.

2015 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Kahn Exo Zombies [16]

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Title Result Ref.

1987 Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actor Aliens Won [44]
1995 CableACE Awards Best Actor in a Dramatic Series Tales from the Crypt Nominated [45]
1996 Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Apollo 13 Won [46]
1997 Saturn Awards Best Actor Twister Nominated
1998 Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Titanic Nominated [47]
1999 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film A Bright Shining Lie Nominated [48]
2003 Saturn Awards Best Director Frailty Nominated [49]
2006 Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Big Love Nominated [50]
2007 Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Big Love Nominated [51]
Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Big Love Nominated [48]
2008 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Big Love Nominated [48]
2009 Satellite Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Big Love Nominated [52]
2010 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Television Series Drama Big Love Nominated [48]
2012 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie Hatfields and McCoys Nominated [53]
2013 Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Hatfields and McCoys Nominated [54]

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