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Rio Hackford, actor in ‘Treme,’ ‘Swingers,’ and owner of a New Orleans nightclub, has died at the age of 51

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The child of Oscar victor Taylor Hackford, he additionally showed up on ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.’
Rio Hackford, the more seasoned child of Oscar-winning movie producer Taylor Hackford and a conspicuous club proprietor who acted in Treme, Swingers, Jonah Hex and American Crime Story, has passed on. He was 51.

Hackford kicked the bucket Thursday in Sunset Beach, California, after a long, unknown disease, his sibling, Alex Hackford, told The Hollywood Reporter.

He was the child of Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman, Ray) and Georgie Lowres. His folks separated in 1972, and his dad was hitched to Oscar-winning maker Lynne Littman from 1977-87 until he marry British entertainer Helen Mirren in 1997.

Hackford followed his father into the diversion business, getting his first little part in Pretty Woman (1990), where he played an addict.

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Minor jobs continued in mid ’90s films like Safe and Double Dragon.

He depicted Bobby the barkeep in Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days in 1995, then, at that point, scored maybe his most essential film job in Doug Liman’s religion exemplary Swingers (1996).

In Swingers, Hackford played Skully, who catchs Patrick Van Horn’s Sue in The Dresden Room parking garage and Sue threatens to use a weapon. Afterward, Skully’s posse makes up with Sue, and they approach play computer games.

His other striking film credits remembered depicting Grayden Nash for Jonah Hex (2010) and parts in Stay Alive (2006), Déjà Vu (2006), Fred Claus (2007), Parker (2013) and Trumbo (2015).

During the 2010s, Hackford showed up on episodes of HBO’s True Detective and WGN’s Underground.

On HBO’s New Orleans-set dramatization Treme, he played Toby, a Tower Records representative. He additionally showed up on FX’s 2016 series American Crime Story: The People versus O.J. Simpson as Pat McKenna, an examiner for lawyer Robert Shapiro.

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All the more as of late, he chipped away at Hulu’s Pam and Tommy and given the movement catch work on the professional killer droid IG-11, voiced by Taika Waititi, on Disney+’s The Mandalorian.

Hackford claimed a series of bars and clubs the nation over. In a meeting with THR in 2011, he said he had grown up visiting jump bars with his dad and artist Charles Bukowski.

“My earliest recollections, as a child, were being at the [race]track and the plunges downtown with both of them,” he said.

Afterward, he worked the entryway at the L.A. nightspot the Three Clubs and turned out to be cordial with Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and maker Nicole LaLoggia, with whom he would chip away at Swingers.

Three Clubs highlights in Swingers, with genuine bar benefactors going about as additional items.

He was a notable figure in New Orleans as the co-proprietor of the sentimentality drove jump bars Pal’s Lounge, Matador and One Eyed Jacks, the last option of which opened in 2002 and played host to neighborhood and visiting groups and was a well known scene for secret gigs performed by any semblance of Green Day.

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An apparatus of the NOLA bar scene for just about twenty years, One Eyed Jacks shut in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Different bars that Hackford co-possessed remembered The Homestead for San Francisco, Monty, a changed over Mexican pool corridor in Los Angeles, and El Dorado in midtown L.A.

Notwithstanding his sibling, father and stepmother, survivors incorporate his significant other, Elisabeth, and children Waylon and Buck.

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