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Powers Allen Boothe (June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017) was an American actor known for his commanding character actor roles on film and television. He received a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his portrayal of Jim Jones in (1980). He also played saloon owner Cy Tolliver on Deadwood from 2004 to 2006, President Noah Daniels on 24 in 2007, and Lamar Wyatt in Nashville from 2012 to 2014. He also appeared in the limited series Hatfields & McCoys (2012).
He is also known for his performances as William Brocius in the western film Tombstone (1993) and Alexander Haig in historical drama Nixon (1995). Other notable film roles include Southern Comfort (1981), Red Dawn (1984), Blue Sky (1994), Sudden Death (1995), Frailty (2001), and Sin City (2005). He also played General Vasily Chuikov, a Soviet general in World War II above Stalingrad's operation against Nazi's Wehrmacht under Gen. Friedrich von Paulus, in Stalingrad (1990).
He portrayed Gideon Malick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's The Avengers (2012), and in the ABC series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. from 2015 to 2016. He was also the voice of Gorilla Grodd in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
Boothe attended Snyder High School, where he played football and appeared in school plays. He was the first in his family to go beyond high school, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, and earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in Drama from Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas.
Boothe first came to national attention in 1980, playing Jim Jones in the CBS TV film . Boothe's portrayal of the crazed cult leader received critical acclaim. In Time story on the production, Boothe was praised: "There is one extraordinary performance. A young actor named Powers Boothe captures all the charisma and evil of 'Dad', Jim Jones." Boothe won the Emmy Award for his role, beating out veterans Henry Fonda and Jason Robards. As the Screen Actors Guild were on strike in the fall of 1980, he was the only actor to cross picket lines to attend the ceremonies and accept his award, saying at the time, "This may be either the bravest moment of my career or the dumbest."
Boothe portrayed Philip Marlowe in a TV series based on Raymond Chandler's short stories for HBO in the 1980s. He appeared in such films as Southern Comfort, A Breed Apart, Red Dawn, The Emerald Forest, Rapid Fire and Extreme Prejudice, as well as the HBO films Into the Homeland and By Dawn's Early Light. In 1989, Boothe appeared in the Mosfilm production of "Stalingrad", in which he played the role of General Chuikov, commander of the Soviet 62nd Army. Additionally, he appeared in the 1990 CBS-TV film Family of Spies, in which he played traitor Navy Officer John Walker. Boothe portrayed William Brocius in the hit 1993 Western Tombstone, the disloyal senior Army officer in Blue Sky (opposite Jessica Lange's Academy Awards-winning performance), and the sinister lead terrorist in Sudden Death. He was also part of the large ensemble casts for Oliver Stone's Nixon (as Chief of Staff Alexander Haig) and U Turn (as the town sheriff).
In 2001, he starred as Flavius Aëtius, the Roman general in charge of stopping the Hun invasion in the made-for-TV miniseries Attila. Boothe played a featured role as brothel-owner Cy Tolliver on the HBO series Deadwood, and the corrupt senator Ethan Roark in the motion picture Sin City (2005), as well as its sequel, (2014). He is the voice of one of the characters in the 2005 video game Area 51 and of Gorilla Grodd, the hyper-intelligent telepathic supervillain in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. He voiced the villain, Kane, in the 2008 video game Turok.
He was a special guest star on 24, where he played Vice President Noah Daniels. He returned in the prequel to the seventh season, . Just after taking the role as acting President, Boothe is seen exiting Air Force Two with F-15s in the background. Boothe played a downed F-15 pilot in Red Dawn. In March 2008, he narrated a television campaign ad for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign.
In 2012, Boothe appeared in Joss Whedon's The Avengers as Gideon Malick, a shadowy governmental superior to S.H.I.E.L.D. From 2015–16, he reprised the role in the ABC series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Boothe appeared in the 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys as Judge Valentine "Wall" Hatfield. Boothe was also cast as Lamar Wyatt in the ABC musical drama series Nashville.Matt Webb Mitovich, Fall TV First Impression: ABC's Nashville Sings, TVLine, August 14, 2012 Boothe also lent his voice to , a 2012 video game developed by IO Interactive, voicing the character of Benjamin Travis.
Boothe was a member of the Friends of Abe.
| 1974 | Richard III | Ensemble member | Lincoln Center, Off-Broadeway | |
| 1978 | Othello | Roderigo | Roundabout Stage I, Off-Broadway | |
| Natwick (understudy) | Broadway debut | |||
| 1977 | The Goodbye Girl | Richard III Cast | |
| 1980 | Cruising | Hankie Salesman | |
| 1981 | Southern Comfort | Corporal Charles Hardin | |
| 1984 | A Breed Apart | Mike Walker | |
| Red Dawn | Lt. Col. Andrew "Andy" Tanner | ||
| 1985 | The Emerald Forest | Bill Markham | |
| 1987 | Extreme Prejudice | Cash Bailey | |
| 1988 | Sapphire Man | Ryan | Short film |
| 1990 | Stalingrad | General Vasily Chuikov | |
| 1992 | Rapid Fire | Lieutenant Mace Ryan | |
| 1993 | Tombstone | William Brocius | |
| 1994 | Blue Sky | Colonel Vince Johnson | |
| 1995 | Mutant Species | Frost | |
| Sudden Death | Joshua Foss | ||
| Nixon | Alexander Haig | ||
| 1997 | Con Air | Officer at leaving ceremony (voice) | Uncredited |
| U Turn | Sheriff Virgil Potter | ||
| 2000 | Men of Honor | Captain Pullman | |
| 2001 | Frailty | FBI Agent Wesley Doyle | |
| 2005 | Sin City | Senator Ethan Roark | |
| 2006 | Lex Luthor (voice) | Direct-to-video A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. | |
| 2007 | The Final Season | Jim Van Scoyoc | |
| 2008 | Edison and Leo | George T. Edison (voice) | |
| 2010 | MacGruber | Colonel Jim Faith | |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Gideon Malick | Credited as "World Security Council" |
| Guns, Girls and Gambling | The Rancher | ||
| 2013 | Straight A's | Father | |
| 2014 | Senator Ethan Roark |
| 1980 | Skag | Whalen | 6 episodes |
| The Plutonium Incident | Dick Hawkins | Television film | |
| Jim Jones | |||
| A Cry For Love | Tony Bonnell | ||
| 1983–1986 | Philip Marlowe, Private Eye | Philip Marlowe | 11 episodes |
| 1987 | Into the Homeland | Jackson Swallow | Television film |
| 1990 | Family of Spies | John A. Walker Jr. | 2 episodes |
| By Dawn's Early Light | Major Cassidy | Television film | |
| 1992 | Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas | Narrator (voice) | Documentary |
| Wild Card | Preacher | Television film | |
| 1993 | Marked for Murder | Mace "Sandman" Moutron | |
| 1994 | Web of Deception | Dr. Philip Benesch | |
| 1996 | Dalva | Sam | |
| 1997 | True Women | Bartlett McClure | |
| 1998 | The Spree | Detective Bram Hatcher | |
| 1999 | Joan of Arc | Jacques d'Arc | 3 episodes |
| A Crime of Passion | Dr. Ben Pierce | Television film | |
| 2001 | Attila | General Flavius Aetius | 2 episodes |
| 2002–2003 | Justice League | Gorilla Grodd (voice) | 4 episodes |
| 2003 | Second Nature | Kelton Reed | Television film |
| 2004–2006 | Deadwood | Cy Tolliver | 34 episodes |
| 2005–2006 | Justice League Unlimited | Gorilla Grodd (voice) | 5 episodes |
| 2006 | National Geographic: Lions v. Hyenas | The Narrator | Voice; documentary |
| 2007 | 24 | Noah Daniels | 14 episodes |
| 2008 | Television film | ||
| 2009 | Sunder (voice) | Episode: "Singlehanded" | |
| 2010 | Episode: "The Transmogrification of Eunice" | ||
| 2011 | Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated | Dead Justice (voice) | Episode: "Dead Justice" |
| The Looney Tunes Show | Leslie Hunt (voice) | 2 episodes | |
| 2012 | Hatfields & McCoys | Judge Valentine "Wall" Hatfield | 3 episodes |
| 2012–2014 | Nashville | Lamar Wyatt | 26 episodes |
| 2015–2016 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Gideon Malick | 11 episodes |
| 2015 | Moonbeam City | Eo Jaxxon (voice) | Episode: "Glitzotrene: One Town's Seduction" |
| 2005 | Area 51 | Major Bridges | |
| 2008 | Turok | Roland Kane | |
| 2010 | Sunder | ||
| 2012 | Benjamin Travis |
| 1980 | Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | ||
| 1983 | CableACE Award | Best Actor in a Dramatic Presentation | Philip Marlowe, Private Eye | |
| 1987 | Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries | Into the Homeland | ||
| 1995 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture | Nixon | |
| 2007 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | Deadwood | ||
| 2012 | Satellite Award | Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | Nashville | |
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