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One of my all-time favorites, gone. Gah! Any movie he was in, he just fit in like a glove, he was that good. So natural, yet so skilled.
The last thing I saw him in was a re-watch of Sweet Home Alabama as Reese Witherspoon's Civil War re-enacting dad. I see his face and immediately so many scenes and favorite lines come up:
"The hatch just blew!"--The Right Stuff Trying to explain what happened to his capsule.
When talking about putting a knife in at the base of an enemy's skull in Uncommon Valor: "You insert, scramble the brains... what you have is instant rag doll."
And my favorite image of him is from Tremors where he's watching Kevin Bacon putting ointment and bandages on a woman's bare legs, knowing that Kevin has a thing for her and vice-versa, and Fred's just sitting there with a cigarette in his mouth, eyes slitted, with a little grin on his face, cool as can be. I'll always see that when I think of him.
Godspeed, Fred. Miss you already.
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