Deliverance actor Bill McKinney died Thursday from cancer of the esophagus, according to his Facebook page. McKinney, who was 80 when he passed away, was best known for his role as a twisted mountain man who assaulted Ned Beatty's character in 1972's Deliverance. During the scene - which Entertainment Weekly calls "one of the most unsettling scenes ever put on film" - McKinney's character orders his victim to "squeal like a pig." McKinney had a varied and long career, with parts in television and in films with major stars including Thunderbolt and Lightfoot with Clint Eastwood and The Parallax View with Warren Beatty.
- 12/2/2011
- by Sara Hammel
- PEOPLE.com
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