This Little Piggy Cried Wee, Wee, Wee All the Way to the Cemetery

Bill McKinney, the man who taught Ned Beatty to read a script all the way through before accepting a role, has died of esophageal cancer at the age of 80. McKinney was best remembered for his role in Deliverance as one of the backwoods Georgians who thought that Beatty could “squeal like a pig” and proceeded to sodomize him to prove it. Reportedly, that scene was entirely ad-libbed, and McKinney thought “Cut” was for wimps and had to be dragged off Beatty after one take. He also was one of the few actors to appear with the two greatest Western actors of all time, John Wayne in The Shootist and Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales, among other movies. As Central Casting shifted stereotypical bad guys from hulking endomorphs to beady-eyed sociopaths, McKinney found himself in high demand and terrorized B. J. and the Bear, Columbo and someone who was able to find The A-Team. Just two days before his death, McKinney completed filming for a Doritos commercial.