Character actor Luke Askew, who had a key role in "Easy Rider" as the stranger who brings Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda to a hippie commune and recently played polygamist cult leader Hollis Greene on HBO's "Big Love," died of natural causes in Lake Oswego, Ore., on March 29. He was 80.
Askew also played one of the prison guards, the sadistic Boss Paul, in Paul Newman starrer "Cool Hand Luke." He had made his film debut the same year, 1967, in Otto Preminger's "Hurry Sundown," starring Michael Caine, Jane Fonda and Faye Dunaway. ...
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