<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Marni Joan Bakst (1977--present) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> Sadler Colley Bakst (b . 1986) </Td> </Tr> <P> William Thomas Sadler (born April 13, 1950) is an American film and television actor . His television and motion picture roles have included Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller in The Pacific, Luther Sloan in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Sheriff Jim Valenti in Roswell, convict Heywood in The Shawshank Redemption, Senator Vernon Trent in Hard To Kill, and the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, a role for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his role as Colonel Stuart opposite Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2 . He played the character of President of the United States, Matthew Ellis, in Iron Man 3, in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and in WHIH Newsfront, and recurs as Steve McGarrett's murdered father in the latter - day 2000's remake of Hawaii Five - O. In 2015, Sadler had an appearance in the TV series Z Nation . </P> <P> Sadler was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jane and William Sadler . He is of mostly Scottish descent, with smaller amounts of English and German ancestry . </P>

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