Saturday, December 03, 2011

Deliverance Actor Bill McKinney Has Died

The man who made Ned Beatty squeal like a pig in Deliverance has died. Bill McKinney passed away on Thursday due to cancer of the esophagus. He was 80. Although best known for his role in Deliverance, Bill McKinney worked for most of his life in films and television and was working right up until last year when he appeared in How Do You Know.

11 comments:

brendalove@gmail.com said...

This movie set gay acceptance back 20 years when it came out.

penelope said...

Believe it or not, I went to see Deliverance with my Father(!!). When that scene was playing, I sat next to my Dad and did not move a muscle. I was mortified!!! We never discussed that scene afterwards -- and I never went alone with him to see another movie!

penelope said...

PS-- I was 14 years old. I don't think I totally understood what happened to Beatty's character.

Momster said...

Ah, Deliverance. Where the phrase, "squeal like a pig" gained a new meaning. It traumatized me, too.

RIP, Mr. McKinney.

mooshki said...

Oh, lord, that's awful, Penelope! I thought it was bad enough when I saw Leaving Las Vegas with my dad, but at least I was an adult!

Lelaina Pierce said...

I've never seen Deliverance. I used to live in rural South Carolina, so that's close enough, right?

I was just checking out his IMDb page and he did quite a bit of work in his later years.

mygeorgie said...

weird how poor Ned was known for that line, his whole life, yet I never knew who Bill was.

There are two movies that really rock my 'energy' to the core and make me wanna scrub down or scream. Deliverance is one, Paris Trout the other.

Gotta go set up my Christmas tree now & forget anyone mentioned 'Deliverance'.

skydives1 said...

I met Bill a few times. Nice guy, but I couldn't past that scene in Deliverance (and the fact he was wearing a tank top and short, short work out shorts when I met him).

annabella said...

that was a great movie and probably that entire scene the most haunting I've ever watched, ever in a movie. that movie also showed how talented burt reynolds was. his career could have been much different if he hadn't made such bad choices after deliverance.

RIP Mr. McKinney, you were very brave to do that scene.

__-__=__ said...

It was the scene that best illustrated the face that you cannot un-see stuff. I can't imagine how much it saved me from!

RocketQueen said...

Great film.

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