Nice Guy Eddie, R.I.P.

Actor Chris Penn, younger brother of Sean, was found dead at his Santa Monica Home. He made his film debut in Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumblefish in 1983 but was probably best known as Nice Guy Eddie in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.

The most curious thing mentioned in all the news reports of his death is the fact that nobody seems to know for sure exactly how old he was: somewhere between 40 and 43 is the rough estimate.

Anyway, he was a talented character actor who still had a lot of interesting parts to play.

“OK, first things fuckin’ last!”
- Nice Guy Eddie