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When he left the 1984 off-Broadway production of "Fool for Love", he was replaced by his understudy, Bruce Willis.

Narrates audio books. Has narrated over forty audio books, including Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", and James Lee Burke's "Dave Robicheaux" series (twenty books in the series so far).

Played a nemesis to Kevin Costner in two movies: No Way Out - Es gibt kein Zurück (1987) and Postman (1997), and on the TV show "Yellowstone".

Eldest son of William Rankin Patton, Senior. His father was a Lutheran minister, an acting/directing instructor, and a playwright.

Trained for the stage at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Actors Studio and with Joseph Chaiken at the Open Theatre in New York.