Geoffrey Lewis, the American character actor with well over 200 film and television credits to his name, has died aged 79. The father of actress Juliette Lewis, he was probably most recognisable for a string of appearances alongside Clint Eastwood in the '70s and '80s. But his career extended much further than that.Lewis was born in 1935 and spent his earliest years in Rhode Island, but his family upped sticks to California when he was ten. Noting his aptitude and enthusiasm for the performing arts, his school drama teacher arranged for him to return to New England for summer stints at the Plymouth Theatre in Massachusetts, and he also worked in New York in off-Broadway stage productions. His first screen appearance was an uncredited walk-on as "Man In Park" in an obscure horror mystery called The Fat Black Pussycat. Bit parts aside, it would be another decade before he got...
- 4/8/2015
- EmpireOnline
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