Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia” provides the vast majority of its massive ensemble solid, which contains Tom Cruise, with moments within the highlight the place they unveil outstanding performances, however Philip Baker Corridor earns a number of standout scenes during the 1999 movie. Solid as Jimmy Gator, the terminally sick and alcoholic host of a youngsters’s recreation display, Corridor is tasked with lifting some ponderous emotional weight — Jimmy needs to make up for his previous failings, together with the abuse of his daughter (Melora Walters) — and shoulders the load with quiet desperation and backbone.
Corridor got here to reputation past due in existence: although he seemed on tv and in options all through the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, he did not revel in fashionable acclaim till the tip of the latter decade, when a formidable flip as Richard Nixon and a habitual section on “Seinfeld” as library cop Lt. Bookman put him on many audience’ radars. He started taking part with Anderson quickly after, and seemed in “Exhausting 8” and “Boogie Nights.” His world-weary face and character drew in different filmmakers as smartly, and led to appearances in “The Rock,” “The Truman Display,” “Zodiac,” “Rush Hour,” and “Argo.”
Corridor additionally labored on tv, showing on “Fashionable Circle of relatives,” “BoJack Horseman,” and “Messiah,” which proved to be his ultimate display screen look. He died of emphysema on the age of 90 at his house in Glendale, California on June 12, 2022. Corridor wasn’t the one one in every of Cruise’s “Magnolia” castmates to cross away: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Robards, Ricky Jay, Henry Gibson, and Danny Wells all died within the a long time since its unlock.
