<P> He appeared in The Outlaw Josey Wales under Eastwood's direction . He appeared in six more Eastwood films including The Gauntlet, Every Which Way but Loose, Any Which Way You Can and Pink Cadillac . </P> <P> Other memorable roles include Jay Cobb, who is done in by John Wayne's The Shootist . He also appeared in such later films as First Blood, Back to the Future Part III and The Green Mile . He appeared in the TV movie The Execution of Private Slovik (1974) and guest - starred on such television shows as the 1976 western Sara, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Starsky and Hutch, The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote, Columbo: Swan Song and In The Heat of The Night...He had an uncredited role in the TV miniseries Roots (1977), playing alongside Georg Stanford Brown, Lloyd Bridges and Burl Ives . </P> <P> McKinney took up singing in the late 1990s, eventually releasing an album of standards and country and western songs appropriately titled Love Songs from Antri, reflecting Don Job's pronunciation of the infamous town featured in Deliverance . One of his songs featured in the film Undertow, directed by David Gordon Green . He played Jonah Hex in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series called "Showdown". In February 2010 he accepted a role in the Robin Hood--inspired horror film Sherwood Horror and had a cameo in 2001 Maniacs . </P> <P> On December 1, 2011, McKinney died from esophageal cancer at his home in San Fernando, California . He was 80 . McKinney's death was announced on his Facebook page on the same day . </P>

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