Nicky Katt, who performed trainer Harry Senate on “Boston Public” after beginning as a baby actor and happening to play an assortment of robust guys in films together with “Dazed and Confused” and “Boiler Room,” has died. He was 54.

His loss of life was reported by his buddies and by legal professional John Sloss, and reportedly occurred on April 8 in Burbank.

Typically enjoying heavies and villains, Katt labored with Richard Linklater, showing in “Waking Life,” “SubUrbia” and “Faculty of Rock.” For director Steven Soderbergh, he appeared in “The Limey” as Stacy the Hitman, as Hitler in “Full Frontal,” and had considered one of his ultimate roles in “Behind the Candelabra.” Christopher Nolan forged him in “Insomnia” and “The Darkish Knight,” wherein he performed a S.W.A.T. workforce member.

On “Boston Public,” Katt performed the favored geology trainer Harry Senate, who taught troublemaker sorts in “the dungeon.” David E. Kelley organized for him to be written out of the present after struggling a psychological breakdown so Katt may pursue his film profession after three seasons.

In Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused,” Katt performed the robust man Clint Bruno, who threatens Mike (Adam Goldberg) after which beats him up. He went on to seem in Gregg Araki’s “Doom Technology,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “Unusual Days,” in Neil Jordan’s “The Courageous One” and in two Joel Schumacher films, “A Time to Kill” and “Batman & Robin.”

Katt was memorable in Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial debut, the 2000 Western motion movie “The Manner of the Gun,” as a bodyguard who will get injured in a shootout.

He additionally supplied the voice of Atton Rand for the “Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords” online game.

Katt, who lived half time in Austin, Texas, labored with Richard Rodriguez on “Sin Metropolis.” He additionally appeared in Tarantino’s “Dying Proof.”

In a 2008 interview about his position in David Gordon Inexperienced’s “Snow Angels,” he instructed Todd Gilchrist, “I form of am infamous for bringing quite a lot of humor to stuff, and never in a scene-stealing manner, [but] particularly if one thing is basically form of heavy material I’m form of like oxygen for a drowning man.”

“I imply, everybody additionally says that the dangerous guys are probably the most enjoyable, however I’ve positively gone by streaks the place that’s all that folks wished me to play, the dangerous man, particularly after ‘Dazed and Confused.’ However I’ve been actually fortunate as a result of I get to play all several types of guys,” he mentioned.

Born in South Dakota, Katt began out as a baby actor on TV and with small roles in “Gremlins” and “The ‘Burbs.”

On tv, he appeared on reveals together with a recurring position on the “Herbie, the Love Bug” collection, “V,” “Quincy M.E.,” “Father Murphy” and “Regulation and Order.” His final credited look was on the collection “Informal” in 2018.