pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 16, 2026 09:55PM

I always knew him best from Days of Thunder.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: February 17, 2026 07:33AM

He's been around.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: February 17, 2026 12:51PM

In one of my favorite westerns, a two-part TV mini-series called "Broken Trail", he twice delivers a simple eulogy for fallen members of their party as they drive a heard of horses to market.

"We're all travelers in this world, from the sweet grass to the packing house, birth 'til death, we travel between the eternities.'

RIP

woberto Report This Comment
Date: February 19, 2026 07:35AM

I think he looked a bit odd but his voice and diction was beautiful. I could listen to him read any old crap and it would be memorising.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: February 19, 2026 02:01PM

I suspect you meant mesmerizing and autocorrect got you. Maybe a bit of irony in your case that in his first movie role he was a mute recluse, but I think they cast him because of his look. That was as Arthur "Boo" Radley in the 1962 movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" and he only appears near the end after saving the lives of the children of Gregory Peck's character Atticus Finch. Good movie and good book it's made from; it says a lot about the "morals" of the southern U.S. in the early to mid 20th century that in many ways persist and have us with horrible "leadership" today. It's fictional but true to the way things were. For an account of dramatized actual events watch the movie "Mississippi Burning" with Gene hackman and Willem Dafoe. Hackman is a badass federal agent, Dafoe his partner.

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