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Actor William Lucking, best known for his role inSons of Anarchy,died at age 80.
“Bill truly was a ‘lion,’ and his memory will always be a blessing!” Macht wrote on Facebook Tuesday alongside the obituary.
Lucking was born in Michigan in 1941 before moving to California in the early 1950s with his family. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and later he pursued a career in acting.
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His movie credits includeThe Crazy World of Julius Vrooder(1974),The Return of a Man Called Horse(1976),The River Wild(1994),Erin Brockovich(2000),The Rundown(2003),The World’s Fastest Indian(2005) andContraband(2012).
More recently, he played Piermont “Piney” Winston — one of the founders of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and the father of Ryan Hurst’s Harry “Opie” Winston — onSons of Anarchy.
Lucking appeared on the FX series from its start in 2008 through season 4 in 2011. The show concluded with the seventh season in 2014.
William Lucking in Sons of Anarchy.Everett
“Although William often played toughs and strongmen, in his actual life he was an elegant man with a brilliant intellect who loved to argue about politics and current affairs, discuss philosophy and physics, and assert fine-pointed opinions about art and poetry,” his obituary stated.
“He was a giant of a man with the soul of a poet, one who ‘contained…a tension of sorts within his being…like a boulder teetering on a hill…or a balloon expanding towards its extreme,’ as one friend put it,” the obituary continued.
Lucking’s first wife and the mother of his children, Mimi, died of cancer in 1996.
“The family requests you toast his memory and celebrate his legacy,” Sigrid’s obituary concluded.
source: people.com
