In Swingers, Hackford played Skully, who bumps into Patrick Van Horn’s Sue in The Dresden Room parking lot and Sue pulls a gun. He portrayed Bobby the bartender in Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days in 1995, then scored perhaps his most memorable film role in Doug Liman’s cult classic Swingers (1996). ![]() ![]() Minor roles followed in early ’90s films like Safe and Double Dragon. Hackford followed his dad into the entertainment business, grabbing his first small part in Pretty Woman (1990), where he played a junkie. His parents divorced in 1972, and his father was married to Oscar-winning producer Lynne Littman from 1977-87 until he wed British actress Helen Mirren in 1997. He was the son of Taylor Hackford ( An Officer and a Gentleman, Ray) and Georgie Lowres. Hackford died Thursday in Sunset Beach, California, after a long, unspecified illness, his brother, Alex Hackford, told The Hollywood Reporter. Rio Hackford, the older son of Oscar-winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford and a prominent club owner who acted in Treme, Swingers, Jonah Hex and American Crime Story, has died.
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