Deadwood’s Powers Boothe Has Died at 68
By Matthew Dessem Powers Boothe at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Powers Boothe, the character actor known for his delightfully villainous performances in shows ranging from Deadwood all the way to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , has died at the age of 68, according to the Hollywood Reporter . He died in his sleep of natural causes on Sunday morning, his representatives told the paper. The news was first broken by his friend, actor Beau Bridges: Boothe grew up in Snyder, Texas, where his father was a sharecropper; theater, he explained in 2012 , was a way to escape the farms and oilfields. After heading to Broadway, he made his name in 1980 with a brilliant performance as Jim Jones in CBS miniseries Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones . But he got more attention for the aftermath than the performance itself: nominated for an Emmy during a Screen A...
