The Oscar-nominated actor appeared in The Lone Ranger and Ride with the Devil.
The C&I crew bids farewell to Tom Wilkinson, the formidably talented and impressively versatile British actor who was a two-time Oscar nominee — for In the Bedroom (2001) and Michael Clayton (2007) — and a standout supporting player in Ang Lee’s 1999 Civil War drama Ride with the Devil and Gore Verbinski’s 2013 reboot of The Lone Ranger.
In Lee’s critically acclaimed film, Wilkinson portrayed Orton Brown, a Southern gentleman who shares with his Rebel houseguest Jake Rodel (Tobey Maguire) his profound misgivings about the Confederate cause. (He also pressures Rodel into marrying an unwed mother played by Jewel.) And in The Lone Ranger, he upped the villainy quotient as Latham Cole, a treacherous railroad tycoon responsible for the slaughter of a Comanche tribe — a massacre ultimately avenged by Tonto (Johnny Depp).
Chief among Wilkinson’s many other credits: Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Rush Hour (1998), The Patriot (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Mission Impossible — Ghost Protocol (2011), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and (as President Lyndon B. Johnson) Selma (also 2014).
