Paxton died in L.A. on Feb. 25 at age 61. In the wake of his passing, the outpouring of grief from collaborators spoke, more than anything, to his decency.

Justin Cornwell, left, and Bill Paxton present the award for outstanding actress in a motion picture at the NAACP Image Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Feb. 11, 2017.

Bill Paxton, the actor known for starring in films such as "Twister" and "Apollo 13," died on Saturday due to complications from surgery, according to a family statement. He was 61. “It is with ...

Few knew Paxton had the chops to step behind the camera to surprise us with one of the better horror flicks of the 2000s in "Frailty," about two boys and their fanatically religious father, who ...

1. He actually admired his Big Love character. Though he was married to one wife, Louise, 41, a homemaker, for 20 years, Paxton didn’t judge the devoutly religious polygamist he played from 2006 ...

Paxton’s clean-cut, regular-guy side also served him well in his biggest TV role, playing religious-cult polygamist Bill Hendrickson in the HBO drama series Big Love from 2006 through 2011.

That's what happened when Bill Paxton − the late, great Bill Paxton of "Apollo 13," the "Alien" franchise, TV's "Big Love" and so much more − picked me up at the airport in a pickup truck.

Emmy-nominated actor Bill Paxton died at the age of 61 on Feb. 25, 2017. Here, his life in photos ...

On that drama, Paxton played Bill Henrickson, a religious patriarch who could be arrogant, self-serving, and petty. Yet he gave the character a core of vulnerability that kept me hooked.

Bill Paxton has been many things to many people. He’s explored the reaches of space (“Aliens,” “Apollo 13”), the briny depths (“Titanic”), the intricacies of polygamy (“Big Love ...

Bill Paxton: I see him as a victim of the war, ... Anyway, he told me what it was over the phone, and he sounded like a religious patriarch who was basically a fundamentalist, ...