He passed away earlier this week Actor Anthony James has died at the age of 77. The American actor, who was best known for playing menacing villains in Westerns, passed away from cancer on Tuesday (May 26) according to an obituary shared by the Tribute Archive, a funeral home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He made his big-screen debut as Ralph Henshaw, a racist manning a diner counter, in Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night (1967).
He was also known for his role as Skinny Dubois, a hostile owner of a bordello, in Unforgiven (1992). Unforgiven, his final movie role, was directed and starred Clint Eastwood, and went on to win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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