Awwww, geez -- AICN reports that William Hootkins has died. Hootkins was a character actor who played the doomed X-Wing pilot Porkins in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (the first Rebel casualty), and Major Eaton in Raiders of the Lost Ark (one of the two government guys who send Indiana Jones after the Ark of the Covenant), among other roles.
What surprises me is that Hootkins was only 58. Somehow he managed to look that old in the two above-mentioned roles -- well, maybe not upper fifties, but at least 40. He certainly didn't look like a guy in his early 30s, seeming as he did the grizzled war veteran of the former film and the jaded career government official of the latter.
Anyhow, here's hoping his burial doesn't take place in a gigantic government warehouse....
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