Nicky Katt, an actor identified for enjoying wild playing cards and hard guys on TV reveals like “Boston Public” and in movies like “Boiler Room” and “Dazed and Confused,” has died. He was 54.
His dying 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 grew to become a personality actor specializing in unsympathetic henchmen, working with acclaimed administrators like Richard Linklater, Christopher Nolan and Steven Soderbergh.
Mr. Katt was recurrently forged 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 nearly 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 scholar threatening one other instructor with a gun.
In a 2002 interview with The Los Angeles Instances, 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 attempt something.”
Nicky Katt was born in Could 1970 in South Dakota. He appeared on a number of TV reveals, 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 Instances, Mr. Katt stated he discovered most actors to be both determined or annoyed. To deal with the vagaries of the career, Mr. Katt amassed a large repertoire of quotes and anecdotes from celebrated figures of the previous.
One piece of recommendation: “It is best to by no means name-drop,” he stated. “De Niro advised me that.”
