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Powers Boothe, a prolific character actor on the small and big screen, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 68.

According to his rep, Boothe died in his sleep Sunday morning of natural causes.

The veteran actor was best known for playing snarling villains like Curly Bill Brocious in the 1993 Western "Tombstone" and saloon owner Cy Tolliver in HBO's "Deadwood."

He also appeared in several comic book shows and movies, portraying Senator Roark in "Sin City" and it's sequel "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" (pictured above). He also had a small role in "The Avengers" and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

His talents weren't only limited to genre material. Boothe played former mayor Lamar Wyatt on 26 episodes of the country drama "Nashville," as well as Judge "Wall" Hatflied on "Hatfields & McCoys." Prior to that, he played Vice President Daniels on "24."

Actor Beau Bridges tweeted news of Boothe's passing on Sunday.

"It's with great sadness that I mourn the passing of my friend Powers Boothe. A dear friend, great actor, devoted father & husband."

In 1980, Boothe took home the Emmy for lead actor in a limited series or special for playing infamous cult leader Jim Jones in "Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones."

His other notable film roles included "Southern Comfort," "Red Dawn," "The Emerald Forest," and Oliver Stone's "Nixon," in which he played Alexander Haig.

Born in Snyder, Texas, Boothe joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival after graduating from college and worked in theater before moving to film and television.

According to reps, there will be a private service held in Texas where he was from. A memorial celebration in his honor is being considered for a future date. Donations can be made to the Gary Sinise Foundation, which honors the nation's defenders, veterans, first responders, their families and those in need.

He is survived by his wife and two children.

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Character actor Michael Parks has died after a career that lasted more than 50 years. He was 77.

Parks' agent, Jane Schulman, confirmed his death to news organizations but she did not specify the cause.

Parks, a California native, didn't begin acting until after years of fruit picking, truck driving and firefighting.

In the 1960s, he was on numerous TV shows, and was seen by some in Hollywood as the next James Dean. Most notably, he starred as the brooding ex-newspaperman riding a Harley — a sort of Easy Rider — on the TV series Then Came Bronson.

Park sang the show's theme song, which became a hit on the Billboard and Hot Country songs charts. Parks recorded pop, jazz and gospel albums, too, but mostly stuck to acting. He even starred in the role of Adam in John Huston's 1966 epic The Bible.

Over the decades, he racked up more than a hundred film and TV credits as villains and antiheroes.

He didn't have a major breakthrough until later in his career, when he became a favorite actor of directors Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and David Lynch, who cast him as a murderous French-Canadian drug runner on Twin Peaks.

Parks played a Texas Ranger in From Dusk Till Dawn — a role he reprised in Tarantino's Kill Bill series.

Parks also played a Mexican pimp in that movie, and Tarantino also directed him in Django Unchained and Grindhouse.

Filmmaker Kevin Smith was also a fan, casting him as the bad guy in two horror films, Red State and Tusk.

Smith says Parks was a genius and called him a "Yoda of acting."