2011年12月12日

Character Actor Bill “Squeal Like a Pig” McKinney Dead at 80


“Looks like we got us a sow here instead of a boar”
Okay, perhaps that’s not how he would want to be remembered but Bill McKinney achieved cinema immortality as one of the great movie villains when he raped Ned Beatty in DELIVERANCE and delivered his immortal line. McKinney was a top-notch character actor who appeared in many great movies in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and was a familiar face. He was part of ’s stock
company and costarred with Clint seven times. He died of cancer of the esophagus on Thursday at age 80.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
He made a generation of moviegoers afraid to go canoeing.
the actor who played one of crazed mountain men in Deliveranceand famously ordered one particularly unfortunate camper to “squeal like a pig,” died Thursday at the age of 80.
A prolific artist up until his death, McKinney’s career included dozens of film credits (including 7 Clint Eastwood titles) and appearances on television series such as In The Heat of the Night, Baywatch and Walker, Texas Ranger.
But McKinney was always associated with Deliverance. The 1972 film, starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty, followed a group of men on an ill-fated river trip into the Appalachian wilderness where they are hunted down by a group of sadistic locals…………

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