Still working to get official confirmation and cause of death, but I can report from sources that veteran actor Nicky Katt has passed away, at age 54. Katt will quickly to mind for his memorable turn as the high school Texan tough Clint Bruno, who picks a fight with Adam Goldberg’s Mike Newhouse, gets a beer poured over his head, and pummels the existentially tortured teen in Rick Linklater’s 1993 gem Dazed and Confused.
Matthew McConaughey and Nicky Katt in ‘Dazed and Confused’
He was a go-to guy for Linklater and a coterie of filmmakers that includes Steven Soderbergh,…