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Actor: Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton is the only actor to have been killed on screen by an Alien, a Terminator and a Predator, which is a distinction he enjoyed.

Aliens gives him Hudson, whose panic is the film’s comic relief and whose game over line entered the language. Apollo 13, Tombstone and Twister filled out a career of dependable, likeable presence.

One False Move and A Simple Plan show a much darker capacity, and he directed Frailty, a genuinely disturbing film about a father who believes God has instructed him to kill.

He was in the crowd at a Kennedy motorcade as a child, photographed by chance, and died in 2017 following surgery.

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in a black coat and hat, standing in the dusty streets of Tombstone, Arizona during the 1880s.Bill Paxton

Tombstone (1993) Review

Tombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…

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The bow of the Titanic tilts upward as the ship breaks apart and sinks into the ocean at night. TITLE: Titanic Sinking SceneBill Paxton

Titanic (1997) Review

Titanic (1997) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cameron built the ship at ninety percent scale, sank it, and hung the oldest story in the world off the side of it. The door problem is real. The…

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Apollo 13 (1995) film posterBill Paxton

Apollo 13 (1995) Review

The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.

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Aliens (1986) film posterBill Paxton

Aliens (1986) Review

Aliens earns its 8 by doing the one thing sequel filmmaking almost never manages: it doesn't compete with the original. Ridley Scott's Alien is a horror film about isolation and violation, one creature, confined space, systematic elimination of everything between…

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