90s Horror Movie Stars You May Not Know Are Dead

Square-jawed, swaggering character actor Charles Napier moved effortlessly between major movies, weekly series, and indie features for more than three decades. He began his career as part of exploitation director Russ Meyer's stable of larger-than-life actors before segueing into Hollywood features. Napier was a favorite of director Jonathan Demme, who cast him in nearly all of his films, including "Swing Shift," "Something Wild," "Married to the Mob," and "The Silence of the Lambs," for which his tough-talking cop, Lt. Boyle, is gutted by Hannibal Lecter during his escape from a Pittsburgh holding cell.

Napier, whose numerous credits included "The Blues Brothers," "Rambo: First Blood Part II," and "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery," spent much of the '90s pinging between studio features like "The Cable Guy" and low-budget action and horror films: the latter included the horror anthology "Body Bags" and "Maniac Cop 2" (with Robert Z'dar). Napier continued to log time in indie chillers in the following decade, including "Dinocroc" and "Life Blood." The 75-year-old actor died of undisclosed causes on October 5, 2011.