# \[RIP\] Bill McKinney - "Deliverance" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872 "2011-12-02T19:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/1 "2011-12-02T19:05:19Z")
Bill McKinney, who terrorized Ned Beatty in “Deliverance” has died at the age of 80. > **[Mountain Man from 'Deliverance' Bill McKinney -- Dead at 80](https://www.tmz.com/2011/12/02/mountain-man-from-deliverance-dead-at-80/)** > > Bill McKinney -- who starred in the famous "Squeal like a pig" scene in "Deliverance" (below) -- has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was also a member of Clint Eastwood’s late 70s - early 80s stock company. Apparently a nice guy off-screen, I think it’s worth noting his official website can be found at [www.squeallikeapig.com](http://www.squeallikeapig.com)😛 RIP UT ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/2 "2011-12-02T19:35:11Z")
Finally! It’s safe for guys to go camping again. Probably. Maybe. No, still won’t chance it. RIP ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/3 "2011-12-02T20:08:46Z")
> [@UntouchedTakeaway](#): > > Bill McKinney, who terrorized Ned Beatty in “Deliverance” has died at the age of 80. > > [Mountain Man from 'Deliverance' Bill McKinney -- Dead at 80](http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/02/mountain-man-from-deliverance-dead-at-80/) > > He was also a member of Clint Eastwood’s late 70s - early 80s stock company. > > Apparently a nice guy off-screen, I think it’s worth noting his official website can be found at [www.squeallikeapig.com](http://www.squeallikeapig.com)😛 > > RIP > > UT I’ve told thisstory before, but… In the early Nineties, my boss was a woman who was very friendly with Wes Studi, the American Indian actor (you may remember him in “Geronimo” or as the villain of “Last of the Mohicans”). Studi was in Austin shooting an episode of the TV Western series “Ned Blessing,” and he invited by boss to Willie Nelson’s ranch, where the show was being taped. Bill McKinney had a part on that show- and according to my boss, he was always ready and willing (eager, in fact) to re-enact the rape scene from “Deliverance” to anyone who showed up on the set. There’s always a lot of down time in the making of a movie or TV show, and actors tend to come up with routines to entertain each other while they’re standing around waiting to do their scenes. McKinney revelled in doing that scene to break people up. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/4 "2011-12-02T21:13:45Z")
Have no idea if it’s true or not, but in his memoir, Burt Reynolds said that McKinney got a little overeager during the scene, to the point of actually whipping it out. ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/5 "2011-12-02T21:22:20Z")
I hope his family has enough of a sense of humor to humor us all with his gravestone. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/6 "2011-12-02T21:37:29Z")
> [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](#): > > I hope his family has enough of a sense of humor to humor us all with his gravestone. “The Squeals Are Silent Now” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/7 "2011-12-02T22:46:18Z")
Serious question: I wonder if Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty are going to be at his funeral? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/8 "2011-12-03T00:30:15Z")
Bill played some very mean roles in his career. None more memorable than his squeal like a pig line as he buggered Ned Beatty. He was also in The _Outlaw Josey Wales_, _Gauntlet_ and _Any Which Way You Can_ with Clint Eastwood. IIRC he always plays the bad guy. credits > **[Bill McKinney | Actor, Additional Crew, Soundtrack](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571853/)** > > Known for: First Blood, Deliverance, Back to the Future Part III > [@](#): > > McKinney is credited in more than 100 films, including a number of Clint Eastwood projects, such as 1976’s “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” [http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/02/deliverance-actor-bill-mckinney-dies/?hpt=hp\_c3](http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/02/deliverance-actor-bill-mckinney-dies/?hpt=hp_c3) ---
**Author:** ![Rain\_Soaked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rain\_Soaked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rain_Soaked)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/9 "2011-12-03T00:36:58Z")
Already thread started [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=633479). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/10 "2011-12-03T00:54:24Z")
Merged duplicate threads. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/11 "2011-12-03T00:54:27Z")
He was also in the MST3K movie Final Justice, starring the dyspeptic Joe Don Baker. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/12 "2011-12-03T12:02:01Z")
From what I can gather, his “partner in crime” Herbert “Cowboy” Coward is still alive - making fairly regular appearances at an NC flea market. He’s the one, who when told he’d be participating in a male rape scene allegedly said “I done worse”. UT ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bill-mckinney-deliverance/604872/13 "2011-12-04T03:30:05Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Have no idea if it’s true or not, but in his memoir, Burt Reynolds said that McKinney got a little overeager during the scene, to the point of actually whipping it out. Yeah, he told this story on the old Bob Costas Later show! He said that he ran into the shot and stopped him. Later, when he asked the director John Boorman basically, “What the fuck?!?” Reynolds said that Boorman told him he knew he (Reynolds) would run in and stop it. Reynolds also said that this is the reason, in the later scene after McKinney’s character has been killed, Beatty’s character lunges towards his corpse and has to be held back by Cox & Voight. He says that was genuine anger on Beatty’s part, and not in the script!