EW.com: Actor and activist Tom Laughlin, best known for the Billy Jack films, died last week at age 82, his family announced Sunday.
In addition to that series of films — which kicked off with 1967′s The Born Losers — Laughlin also mounted three failed bids to become the president, starting in 1992. There were four Billy Jack films in all, and Laughlin co-produced and starred in all of them alongside his wife, Delores Taylor, to whom he’s been married since 1954.
4 comments:
My daughter tells me Joan Fontaine also died--making the third in the "celebrities always die in threes" trifecta.
/Also--Olivia de Havilland cackles with glee.
Olivia wins!
I had no idea Tom Laughlin was that old. By coincidence I am reading Andre Dubus III's memoir (Townie) and he was writing about being beat up repeatedly as a kid and how he wanted to be like the characters he was seeing in the movies: Dirty Harry, Buford Pusser and Billy Jack.
Jeff M.
He's obviously a whippersnapper.
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