Shares his first name with actor Bill Paxton, was born approximately 3 weeks after Bill Paxton, and played a character named Ernest Paxton in "The Rock" (1996). Forsythe acted in "The Rock" alongside Michael Biehn and Danny Nucci; Biehn appeared in several of the same films as Bill Paxton, while Nucci and Bill Paxton both appeared in "Titanic" (1997).