Tom Berenger

Tom Berenger was a major movie star of the 1980s, who has since faded to B-movies and supporting work. He is known for intense, brooding, merciless or psychotic portrayals, including the vicious Sgt Barnes in Oliver Stone’s Platoon, the white supremacist farmer in Betrayed with Debra Winger, and the killer Thomas Beckett in Sniper, Sniper 2, and Sniper 3. In more sympathetic roles, he played the catcher in Major League with Corbin Bernsen, the heroic cop in Someone to Watch Over Me with Mimi Rogers, and he had Paul Newman’s role in Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. A longtime civil war buff in real life, Berenger’s best work might be in Gettysburg, where he played Confederate General James Longstreet.

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