Actor and club owner Rio Del Valle Hackford, who appeared in films and TV shows including “Jonah Hex,” “Swingers,” “Treme” and “The Mandalorian,” die…
, was remembered by friends for being a “connector of all sorts of people,” said his friend, screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis.
In San Francisco, he owned Homestead, and in Los Angeles he renovated the Monty bar just west of downtown. In “The Mandalorian,” he was the on-set performer of the droid IG-11, who was voiced by Taiki Waititi.Hackford had small appearances in movies like playing a junkie in “Pretty Woman” and a bartender in “Strange Days” before appearing as Skully in “Swingers.” The Skully character, who has a beef with Sue, was known as “House of Pain” or “Hip Hop” in the ’90s indie favorite.
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