Nicky Katt, the actor better known for his role in Richard Linklater’s film in 1993 “Dazed and Confused,” Boiler Room “from the 2000s, and the television series” Boston Public “has died. He was 54 years old.
The death of Katt was confirmed to the writing by lawyer John Sloss, founder and partner of SLOSS Law, the firm which provided the legal representation of the actor. No cause of death has been given.
Katt also played in Steven Soderbergh’s film in 2002 “Full Frontal” alongside Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener and Brad Pitt) as a selfish actor playing Adolf Hitler as an average man with commitment problems in the play “The Sound and the Fuhrer”.
In an interview of 2002 With Los Angeles TimesThe director welcomed the actor’s performance at the time and said at the point of sale: “I think he understood that there is no way to treat Hitler as an abstraction. So humor is to try to humanize it, because it is impossible.”
Soderbergh also described Katt as “absolutely intrepid” in performance.
Katt told the newspaper that the role had presented an opportunity to step back from the game and pay the frustration he had known in the search for roles in a character. “There is so much despair in the air, in Los Angeles in particular. You do not notice it so much in New York,” he said. “Everyone plays a little cooler and people have much more interaction with each other. I think Stanley Kubrick described the atmosphere of Los Angeles a “low -level malice”. He eats you at some point.
Katt joined the cast of “Boston Public” for the first three seasons of the show. His character, Harry Senate, was an unconventional geology teacher who takes over after a colleague left because of the behavior of the students. Despite its dubious methods, the Senate turned out to be dedicated to the class and to the students inside.
The actor’s additional credits include “Boiler Room”, “Sin City” and “Dazed and Confused”. The latter made his debut in 1993 and presented Katt in the role of Clint Bruno, a guy who essentially likes to smoke grass, take care of his car and beat people. His character had a memorable fight with Mike of Adam Goldberg, who managed to punch before regretting his choices.
Katt was born on May 11, 1970 in southern Dakota.
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