‘Back to the Future’ actor dead at 89

Matt Clark’s passing closes a chapter on a kind of Hollywood that rarely exists anymore. He didn’t chase magazine covers or box office headlines; he chased truth inside a scene. Directors trusted him to quietly hold a film together, to bring weight and history to a single line, to make the world on screen feel lived-in and real. His work in Westerns, from The Outlaw Josey Wales to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, captured a rugged tenderness that mirrored the way he lived off camera.