Powers Boothe

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Biography

Recent Role:
Steve St. James on The Looney Tunes Show
Gender:
Male
Born:
6-1-1949
Birthplace:
Snyder, Texas
Birth Name:
Powers Allen Boothe
Powers Boothe is an award-winning American actor with a long career in both film and television. Born 1949, in Snyder, Texas, he has made a career as leading man of the American stage, TV, and films. He made a strong presence in some films in the 80s, but he was most successful on TV. He won an Emmy award as Best Actor for his performance in the TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) (TV). Most recently, he appeared as the Vice President on Fox's hit show 24 and played saloon owner Cy Tolliver on the HBO series Deadwood.



… More Boothe was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at Southwest Texas State University. He received his MFA from Southern Methodist University.

In September of 1980, in an act of defiance, he showed up at the Emmy Awards ceremony to collect the award he had won for playing Jim Jones. The Screen Actors Guild was in the middle of a strike and members boycotted the ceremony until the strike was settled. Boothe was the only winner in an acting category who showed up. The incident was referenced in the James L. Brooks film, I'll Do Anything (1994).

Among his more memorable films are Red Dawn, Tombstone, Blue Sky, Sin City and Frailty.

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  • Welcome to the TV.com Forums for Powers Boothe

    Welcome to the TV.com Forums for Powers Boothe. Here is your area to discuss, dissect and debate all things about this person.

    2 comments, last one Aug 3, 2007

  • Favorite Performance?

    Mine would be a toss-up between Philip Marlowe and Curly Bill Brosius from Tombstone . Anyone else have a favorite Powers Boothe performance?

    jamoon2006
    1 comments, last one Jul 24, 2007

  • Powers Boothe Out as 24 POTUS?

    After this season of 24 and finding Powers Boothe to be one of the high points, I was dismayed to see that the producers are going with a female president for next season. Maybe it was just my imagination, but I thought they had signed Boothe for two seasons. Does this mean he's still on as… More the veep? I thought it was nice having him in power. It was refreshing to see a president who didn't roll over for Jack Bauer on every occasion. It could be the producers just want to do a clean start after the abysmal Season 6, but I hope they don't jettison cast members who make the show strong, and Powers Boothe is definitely one.

    jamoon2006
    2 comments, last one Jul 24, 2007
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    9.4 Superb
    Hasn't gotten the acclaim he deserves. hide show

    Powers Boothe is able to play a mixture of charm, menace, introspection and brutality in a wide variety of roles. Still, he's largely unappreciated, despite appearing in some of the best and most critically acclaimed films and TV shows in recent memory.

    He steadily appears on film, but I think his meatiest parts have been on TV. I'm biased (I'm the editor of the show and I love it) but people curious about Mr. Boothe should check out "Philip Marlowe, Private Eye." Not only is it a terrific series in its own right, but it's a star turn for Mr. Boothe, who takes the role of the iconic detective and makes it his own (not easy when Humphrey Bogart has also played the character!)

    More recently, he was the only good part of the awful sixth season of "24." And he was consistently strong on "Deadwood," the lamentably short-lived HBO drama. Whatever he's in, regardless of the quality of the piece itself, it's a sure-thing Powers Boothe is going to turn in a great performance.

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