Powers Boothe

Born: 1 June 1949
Where: Snyder, Texas, USA

Boothe is a face familiar to American TV and movie viewers, but an actor who has never quite made the big time.

His breakthrough theatrical performance was in the Broadway production of James McClure's one-act comedy, Lone Star.

In 1980 Boothe played a hankie salesman in Cruising, directed by William Friedkin, and in the same year he had his feature lead debut in Southern Comfort, directed by Walter Hill.

Other credits of Boothe's include the part of Alexander Haig in the biopic Nixon, directed by Oliver Stone, with whom he reteamed in U-Turn.

More recently he co-starred in Men of Honor, and in Frailty, opposite Bill Paxton and Matthew McConaughey.