Bill Paxton (born May 17, 1955, died February 25, 2017) was an actor who portrayed the blue-haired punk in The Terminator. He is the first character killed by the T-800.
Awards[]
Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Actor in drama series Big Love.
Filmography in Terminator franchise[]
Notes[]
- An 8-year-old Paxton was in the crowd waving when President Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Ft. Worth the morning of Nov. 22, 1963. There are pictures at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas where the young Paxton can clearly be seen astride the shoulders of an unidentified man.[1]
- Bill was also the only actor to have been killed by a Terminator (and further proven by taking the filmmaker's answers and the novelization into account), an Alien, and a Predator. Contrary to popular belief, Lance Henriksen does not qualify because his character Bishop in the Alien franchise does not really get killed by an Xenomorph.
- In "The Programming of Fate", there is a soldier named Paxton at present when the T-800 is being sent to the past via Time Displacement Equipment. Apparently, the soldier was named after Bill Paxton.
- Before Bill's death, James Cameron was hoping to work with him again and cast him in the sequels to Avatar but Bill's death in 2017 prevented that from happening.
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External links[]
Bill Paxton on the Internet Movie Database