Nicky Katt, Actor Known For ‘Dazed And Confused,’ Dies at 54

[ad_1] Nicky Katt, an actor recognized for taking part in wild playing cards and difficult guys on TV exhibits like “Boston Public” and in movies like “Boiler Room” and “Dazed and Confused,” has died. He was 54.

His demise was confirmed by his lawyer, John Sloss, who didn't present any additional particulars.

Mr. Katt started his profession as a baby actor and later turned a personality actor specializing in unsympathetic henchmen, working with acclaimed administrators like Richard Linklater, Christopher Nolan and Steven Soderbergh.

Mr. Katt was recurrently solid as a pushy, temperamental man whose virtues, if any, weren't instantly self-evident.

In “Dazed and Confused,” he's a nerd-shoving highschool taunter who grits his tooth whereas pummeling a fellow teen. “I solely got here right here to do two issues, man: kick some ass and drink some beer,” Mr. Katt, as Clint Bruno, stated with cocky bravado. “Appears like we’re virtually out of beer.”

In “Boston Public” (Fox, 2000-2004), a present about an city highschool, Mr. Katt performed Harry Senate, a geology instructor and charismatic rule breaker who brings his class to consideration by firing blanks out of a pistol, however who additionally efficiently disarms a pupil threatening one other instructor with a gun.

In a 2002 interview with The Los Angeles Occasions, Mr. Soderbergh described Mr. Katt’s performances as “dangerously uncontrolled” however rigorously studied.

“He’s completely fearless,” Mr. Soderbergh stated. “No thought is just too outrageous. He’ll strive something.”

Nicky Katt was born in Could 1970 in South Dakota. He appeared on a number of TV exhibits, together with “Fantasy Island” and “CHiPs,” as a preteen.

Full details about his household and survivors was not instantly out there.

Speaking to The Los Angeles Occasions, Mr. Katt stated he discovered most actors to be both determined or pissed off. To deal with the vagaries of the occupation, Mr. Katt amassed a large repertoire of quotes and anecdotes from celebrated figures of the previous.