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William Lucking, who played Piney Winston in Sons of Anarchy, has died at the age of 80.<\/p>\n
The actor passed away in his LA home on 18th October, though no cause of death has been given.<\/p>\n
His wife Sigrid Insull Lucking shared the sad news in an obituary, which was posted on Facebook<\/a> by William\u2019s long-time friend Stephen Macht.<\/p>\n Sigrid wrote: \u201cAlthough William often played toughs and strongmen, in his actual life he was an elegant man with a brilliant intellect who loved to argue about politics and current affairs, discuss philosophy and physics and assert fine-pointed opinions about art and poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n As well as playing ailing Sons of Anarchy member Piney for four seasons, William had more than 100 acting credits to his name at the time of his passing, including roles in The A-Team, The X-Files and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Enterprise.<\/p>\n As well as his versatile work on TV, the actor was also part of several high-profile big-screen projects. He appeared alongside Faye Dunaway in 1973 comedy western Oklahoma Crude, played Bob Linwood in 2000\u2019s Erin Brockovich and Billy Walker in the Dwayne Johnson-starring The Rundown.<\/p>\n Following the news of William\u2019s passing, his Sons of Anarchy co-stars took to Twitter to pay tribute.<\/p>\n Theo Rossi, who played Juan Carlos \u2018Juice\u2019 Ortiz on the series, shared his memories of working together and posted a picture of the actor on set.<\/p>\n \u201cWE were all on a boat. It\u2019s was in the AM and it was chaos,\u201d Rossi posted. \u201cBUT it didn\u2019t matter, because like many times before, I was fortunate to listen and learn from this knowledgeable steadfast oak of a Human. One of one, none before and none to come Give \u2018em hell BILL!\u201d<\/p>\n WE were all on a boat.